The country is being saddled with a
“runaway population” even as agricultural lands for food crops are getting smaller, President Duterte said during a recent agrarian reform event.The President expressed concern over the country’s growing population vis-a-vis shrinking farmlands, while discussing the need to “reconfigure” the lands to sustain the people’s food requirements.
The President noted that “big corporations” were taking over agricultural lands that are being used to plant cash crops instead of food crops. “We have not been able to catch up with the area where we can plant. The produce would be food crop. So there’s a dilemma there somewhere and one day government has to reconfigure to have enough land to sustain the needs of the Filipino people,” he said.
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