Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III is seeking a Senate blue ribbon committee investigation into the "rampant and unabated" agricultural smuggling in the country.
"The issue of smuggling has been a decade-long problem that has continued to be a burden in the country's agricultural market. Unfortunately, up until now, smuggling persists, if not worse than before," he said. It was found during the investigation that the amount of technically smuggled agri-fishery commodities for the years 2019 to 2022 is estimated at P667.5 million, Pimentel mentioned in his resolution.
He lamented that Republic Act 10845 or the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act was effective since June 2016. However, the problem of smuggled agricultural products is still hurting the local food producers.
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