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Food security? Ease the plight of farmers first
AS POOR AS EVER At the end of a crop growing cycle, farmers are left with hardly any money to support their families, and will enter the next cycle as poor as when they started. —PHOTO FROM dar.gov.ph
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July 8, 2022October 3, 2023Economy, Opinion

Food security? Ease the plight of farmers first

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The issue of food security is in the headlines these days because of the attention the new administration is giving it and the fact that the new president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has positioned himself as head of the Department of Agriculture (DA). I have been living and working in the Philippines for 20 years, and...