President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said he took on the Department of Agriculture (DA) post to prepare the agency for an impending food crisis, and signaled his intent to raise domestic output of rice and corn. READ:
“We have to attend to the impending food crisis that, it seems, will be visiting us in the next two quarters,” he said in a closed-door meeting with DA officials in a video released by state media.
“We have to think hard about making sure that people have sufficient food and they can afford the price.” “We really have to reconstruct our value chain starting from our scientists and our researchers,” he said. “We have to remake that model.”
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