President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved a plan to redo a rice production program called “Masagana 99” that his father, deceased former President Ferdinand Marcos, implemented in 1973. | NCorralesINQ /PDI
“At 97 percent, we can say that we can feed all our countrymen with enough rice and supplies,” Marcos added.Press Secretary Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil said the President made the announcement after he approved the program, obviously modeled after Masagana 99 which was implemented in 1973 amid a rice supply shortage.
The program also involved the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides that were later found to be harmful to health.By 1976, the government said farmers were producing bumper harvests unseen in generations—a claim still disputed today.However, the lack of continuing support for the program caused inexperienced farmers to default on their loans, leading to the sale of farmland they had just received from the government and widespread bank failures.
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