The Department of Agriculture (DA) has presented to the Cabinet’s Economic Development Cluster (EDC) a three-pronged approach that includes distributing certified rice seeds and fertilizers to farmers and importing corn at zero tariff, to energize the underperforming agriculture sector and have it contribute significantly to gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2019.
Read MoreDividends remitted by government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) as of mid-May this year have already reached P38.9 billion, which is only 3 percent shy of the P40.17 billion in actual collections for the entire 2018, according to the Department of Finance (DOF).
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