It has been seven months since Agriculture Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel was appointed with much expectations.
Hopes were high that Tiu, a successful entrepreneur, will be able to inculcate a results-oriented business approach to fix the problems of our agriculture sector. Seven months is not a long time but should be enough for us to get a hint of where he is going and how he is approaching the problems, urgent and long term, that are now on his plate.
The NFA is mandated to buy palay from farmers. The NFA procurement price ranges from P23 to P30 per kg for clean and dry palay while the buying price for fresh and wet palay increased from P17 per kg to P23 per kg. The NFA said it has a budget of P17 billion for buying locally produced palay this year. Palay, dry or wet, undergoes milling.
The closest I could get to a mission statement worthy of Sec. Tiu Laurel’s credentials is what he said about technology revolutionizing Philippine agriculture, paving the way for increased productivity and profitability while attracting a younger generation of Filipinos to consider being farmers. But how can he modernize unless he consolidates farms first?
“As soon as the PNG achieves a level of rice sufficiency, excess production would be brought home to the Philippines.” Piñol said. Business titan Manuel V. Pangilinan is dipping further into the dairy business as he will buy out for around P700 million...
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