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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Agri dep't asked to check fertilizer prices
By Ben O. Tesiorna
NORTH Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Piñol is asking the Department of Agriculture (DA) to check on the rising prices of fertilizers in the country.
In an interview here in Davao City last week, Piñol said he recently passed a resolution before the League of the Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) regarding such that he said, the LPP adopted.
The governor said the high prices of fertilizer here in the Philippines made the farmers suffer more with less profit.
"Farming has become unprofitable for the farmers," Piñol said.
He said a sack of urea outside the country sells as P350 while here in the Philippines it's sold at P950 per sack.
Piñol said due to this the income of farmers had decreased considerably.
On the other hand, the governor is also asking the DA to re-assess the allocation of the agriculture budget on rice and corn production.
It was learned that 50 percent of the DA budget goes to rice and corn production.
Piñol said it's high time for the DA to look into the potential of other high-value crops and give them enough budget as well to improve their production.
"Dapat bigyang pansin din nila yung ibang high-value crops like the rubber, banana and fruits," Piñol said.
(June 8, 2005 issue)
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