The chief executive further said he still has to “restructure the bureaucracy” within the DA "for the simple reason that we are doing different things from what they were doing — what we were doing before.”
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he is determined to bring down the prices of goods in the first quarter of 2023 as he admits that the country’s high inflation, which quickened to 8.1% last month, causes him to “lose sleep every night.”
Sourcing non-traditional supplies to address climate change
As climate change remains an overarching issue in agriculture,
Marcos said he is eyeing sourcing “non-traditional" supplies to address
the country’s constantly changing weather and to help with local production.
He explained that non-traditional suppliers refer to having
multiple sources of basic commodities or agricultural products that the country
can resort to in times of need.
“But we come back to the
problem of production. Once I know that the value chain has already been put
together — never mind that it is functioning yet, but we already know what
needs to be done in each part of that value chain and we have the means and we
have a plan — then, we will have a secretary who will then take my place and
will implement that plan,” Marcos said. The most highlighted issue in the
president’s list is local production. He stressed that local production remains
the root of the agriculture sector’s problems. VIA CNNPH
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