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Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the Agriculture Department will be installing 6,200 solar-powered irrigation systems nationwide as a short-term solution to address the effect of El Niño which has caused farm lands to dry up. “This is our short-term resolution for El Niño, to build a solar-powered irrigation system. The project has a fund of […]
A party-list group representing the agriculture sector has echoed the call of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol for government to pour more funds into agriculture to increase the sector’s productivity. Piñol’s statement was made in light of concern expressed by Socioeconomic Planning Sec. Ernesto Pernia over the sector’s “stagnant performance” for the second quarter of 2018. […]