A group of seaweed producers is urging the Marcos administration to hike the budgetary support to the industry to boost domestic production and take advantage of huge market potential in the local and global market. Alfredo Pedrosa III, chairman of the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines, appealed to the…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is expected to sign on his birthday on September 13 an executive order (EO) imposing a year long moratorium on land amortization and interest payments by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB), the chief of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Friday. Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III…
Economist Solita “Winnie” Collas-Monsod, attending a Senate hearing on a proposal to amend the Constitution to attract more foreign investors, maintained there is no need to tinker with the 1987 Charter in order to accomplish such. Allaying apprehensions, Monsod, Professor Emeritus at the UP School of Economics, thumbed down the move to revise…