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"I was the secretary of agriculture who cleaned up the mess that was left by Masagana 99. There were about 800 rural banks that were bankrupted by that program and we had to rescue them," Dominguez said.
Marcos then went on to say that"the success perhaps was not in banking, but the success was in rice exportation." Dominguez debunked Marcos again."We never exported rice [during that time], ma'am," he told the senator.iba 'yung ating data, tsaka na lang tayo magdiskusyonPresident Rodrigo Duterte"'Yung Biyayang Dagat niya pati 'yung Masagana 99, that was the time na hindi tayo nag-import talaga ng pagkain,"In 2017, Duterte launched Masaganang Ani 200, which followed a similar scheme and aimed to raise rice yield to around 200 cavans per hectare to stop, if not minimize, importation of rice.
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