MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe on Friday urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to ramp up local agricultural production to help ease the hunger of millions of Filipinos.
The senator in a statement said the DA should “aim for a dynamic, high-growth sector” in order to scale up agricultural production.
“The leadership in the department is crucial. When the DA is on the opposite side of local farmers and producers, challenges in the country’s agriculture will only get worse and so will the problem of hunger,” Poe stressed.
The senator said the country’s farm sector continues to shrink despite billions of pesos allocated to the department and to agriculture-related…
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