Senator Imee R. Marcos refuted on Wednesday (May 20) the claim of Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Carlos Dominguez III that the touted
“Masagana 99’” program of her father, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was a failure as it bankrupted 800 rural banks that bankrolled the rice program.In a Senate committee of the whole public hearing on government programs to contain and resolve varied problems created by the coronavirus disease pandemic, Marcos proposed that her late father’s program be revived to help farmers suffering losses and other hardships.
When oil prices spiraled, the cost of production was so high that farming no longer became a profitable enterprise, while the credit subsidy component of the program was also unsustainable. “Dr. Emil Q. Javier is a member of the National Academy of Science and Technology and also chair of the Coalition for Agriculture Modernization in the Philippines .”
Sen. Marcos then went on to say that “the success perhaps was not in banking, but the success was in rice exportation.”
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