FARM clustering will play an important role to level up Philippine farm productivity and boost agriculture’s role in the economy, especially amid the pandemic, according to an expert and educator. At the recent third edition of the Experts’ Forum organized by the ALC Media Group with partners this time on the…
MANILA - With barely three months left before Secretary William Dar leaves the Department of Agriculture (DA), he wants to be remembered for his legacy of providing direction for the sector's future leaders. Foremost among the programs was the "OneDA Reform Agenda" based on consolidation, modernization, industrialization and professionalization, and science-based key strategies to make the agriculture sector competitive. "Ang legacy po natin ay may direksyon ang sektor ng agrikultura (Our legacy is the direction for the agriculture sector), 'yung (the) thinking, it led to a new food security development framework. There was the global summit of the food systems approach so we made our own version of that, sinama na natin ito lahat sa (we rolled everything into the) OneDA Reform Agenda. That's a legacy. We have a direction for the future. It will be the solid foundations of the sector," he said on Tuesday during an online press briefing. The reform agenda