(MB FILE, Keith Bacongco)
According to the agriculture chief, the enactment of the law will pave way for the efficient use of the P100-billion coconut levy fund to uplift the livelihood of millions of farmers and sustain the development of the country’s coconut industry.
“On behalf of millions of coconut farmers and their families, we thank President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and our distinguished legislators for their continued guidance and strong support to revitalize the coconut industry,” Dar said.
Dar’s statement came after KILUS Magniniyog (KM), composed of thousands of coconut farmers, accepted the law’s passing “with deepest grief.”
My father is Serafin Cruz Guinigundo, Apin to his friends, whom everybody thought was a fool for reciting Filipino poetry for hours before an old family mirror one summer afternoon. He commandeered it and carried it down and placed it under a fruit tree. He was barely ten when my grandmother Juliana rushed to ask him what was wrong with his mind. Some of my father’s playmates apparently suspected he went nuts and told on him.
So many things my father taught me, and this was one of them. If I wanted to do good with my craft, I must practice to perfection.