AS far back as the previous century, cargo-oriented seaports and airports had been envisioned as vital components of a thriving agriculture sector.
The fine print and the spirit of the Agriculture and Fishery Modernization Act in the late 1990s specifically mentioned the need to create special zones for agriculture and fisheries that would be clustered around major seaports and airports. Implied in the plan to create special agri and fishery zones was this: the AFMA would boost agricultural and fishery development to a level that would transform the Philippines into an agricultural export powerhouse.
Is the grand plan of the current Department of Agriculture mandarins to build 17 seaports across the country finally related to the dream of the AFMA framers to create thriving agri and fishery zones clustered around major seaports and airports? Are the DA mandarins envisioning a situation where the Philippines, now finally an export powerhouse, would be shipping traditional and high-value crops and other foodstuffs into ports across the seven seas? Just like the grand vision laid out by the...
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