A congressional inquiry on the controversial Sugar Order 4 (SO 4), which would have allowed the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar, has been formally sought in the House of Representatives.
Libanan said that the previous leadership of the DA, the mother agency of SRA, failed to capacitate local production and instead resorted on importation not only of sugar but also of rice, pork, fish and vegetable products.
At the Senate, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, in a privilege speech on Monday, called on the Senate blue ribbon committee toIn a separate statement, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said sugar importation should be based on science and subject to review outside of SRA and DA. Subjecting sugar data to third-party vetting, Recto said, will strengthen the integrity of projections made and will hush down unfair claims of data manipulation.
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