The Marcos administration has firmed up its direction in crafting viable strategies that will ensure the delivery export-competitive agriculture products to the global market, a Department of Agriculture official revealed on Thursday.
“Not all Philippine crops are currently positioned for export, but there are definitely bright spots,” he said during the celebration of the 2nd High Value Crops Week with the theme, “Green Revolution: Road Towards Exportation.” For her part, Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform, expressed her support to the implementation of the program.The senator cited findings that as an economy grow, it tends to move out of subsistence food crop production to a diversified market-oriented production system.
Furthermore, following this year’s HVC Week, the HVCDP will showcase success stories and efforts toward increasing the sufficiency of HVC commodities, developing the industries, and eventually marking the position of Philippine high-value crops in the world market.