Farmers ask Duterte to veto coco levy fund bill inquirer.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from inquirer.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published December 17, 2020, 6:00 AM
On the anticipated release of the P100-billion coco levy fund, another veto is coconut farmers’ last hope after the House version of Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund (Coco Levy Act) was passed on third and final reading and turned out to be “worse than the Senate version of the law”.
That, if President Rodrigo Duterte will not intervene before the law gets through the bicameral, where both houses of Congress will consolidate two versions of Coco Levy Act.
(MB FILE, Keith Bacongco)
“I called the staff of Congressman Mark Enverga [Quezon 1st District and chairman of the House’s agriculture committee] to insert the provisions that we want in the bicam, but if this is not possible, this is the right time for President Duterte to veto the law again,” Pambansang Kilusan ng Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (PKMP) Chairman Eduardo Mora said in a phone interview.