DAVAO CITY —President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has certified the proposed agricultural economic sabotage as urgent and carries penalties.
In a letter addressed to Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, Marcos stated that Senate Bill 2432 is urgent “especially now that the country is beset by rising prices and shortages in agricultural products, partly due to the nefarious acts of smuggling, hoarding, profiteering, and cartel.”
The proposed bill, according to Marcos, will promote productivity in the agriculture sector and will protect the farmers against unscrupulous smugglers who control rice prices in the market by importing rice at the expense of the local farmers as food in the market is no longer affordable to the Filipinos including fishery products.-ezc
