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THE Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) is urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to restore the mandate of the National Food Authority (NFA) or to allow the agency to procure palay (unmilled rice) to help control the price of the commodity.
AS a result of inadequate, scattered and sometimes unreliable data on the agricultural sector, Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel Jr. articulated the need for the reestablishment of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) in the Department of Agriculture (DA).
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) may find it difficult to reactivate the Bureau of Agriculture Statistics (BAS) as its return would require the amendment of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) charter. This was according to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan who said it might be more advantageous for the…