Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo credit: https://www.da.gov.ph/)
“We have survived the worst, rebooted our policies, and refocused our priorities. The next step is to pursue systematic and strategic approaches to further ‘grow’ the agri-fishery sector in strong and sustained partnerships with local government units, private sector, farmers’ and fishers’ groups, and other national government agencies,” the DA chief said.
Leading off the new designates is Leocadio Sebastian, who was appointed as undersecretary and serving in concurrent capacity as Chief-of-Staff (COS).
He formerly served as executive director of the DA’s Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and regional program leader of the CGIAR research program on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS) in Southeast Asia, based in Vietnam.
01/13/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/13/2021 01:09
Agri chief designates new officials to pursue strategies under âOne DAâ framework
Author: DA Communications Group | 13 January 2021
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has designated new officials who will lead their respective units to help implement the key strategies under the One DA framework, and attain a growth target of 2.5 percent this year. We have survived the worst, rebooted our policies, and refocused our priorities. The next step is to pursue systematic and strategic approaches to further grow the agri-fishery sector in strong and sustained partnerships with local government units, private sector, farmers and fishers groups, and other national government agencies, the DA chief said.