Farmers prepare a rice paddy, surrounded by new residential houses built on a former rice farm in Balanga city in Batan province west of Manila on June 11, 2009. Experts said land conversion of agricultural areas into real estate to house Philippines' booming population of almost 90 million have affected the country's rice production. AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)