President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. plans to address rising inflation by reducing the country’s reliance on imported food staples. Know more:
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. plans to address rising inflation by reducing the country’s reliance on imported food staples.
“We would prefer to import as little as possible. So we should increase our own production of rice and corn,” Marcos said. “This season, the corn growers were able to come together and provide sufficient feed for the broiler production. But we still have to increase production of corn to ensure that supply because there’s also—there’s corn for food and there’s corn for feed,” Marcos said.Marcos said he wants to provide government intervention to farmers before the last planting season this year as a “short-term”“They will harvest towards the end of the year, they will mill soon after that.
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