Commodities importation backed by sufficient data: DA
Agriculture Secretary William Dar (File photo) MANILA - The decision to import some agricultural commodities such as sugar is backed by data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), Agriculture Secretary William Dar said on Friday. "Our policy in importation is based on data that we collect in coordination with the PSA. [We hope] that the UNIFED's (United Sugar Producers Federation) argument should also be data-based," Dar said in a Laging Handa briefing. This came after the UNIFED, the country's largest umbrella organization of sugar producers, protested the importati...
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