News: Marcos lays out plans to ensure food security

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Marcos lays out plans to ensure food security

July 25, 2023

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Marcos lays out plans to ensure food security

President Marcos on Monday outlined his administration's grand plan to secure the country's food supply, focusing on expanding the number of government-backed food stores, boosting agricultural production, and pursuing a relentless campaign against smugglers and hoarders of agricultural goods whom he blamed for the escalation in the prices of basic food items.

By Alden M. Monzon and Meg J. Adonis

Sona ignored rights issues, say activists

Militant groups took issue with President Marcos' refusal to once again address human rights issues in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday. Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes said he found it alarming while for Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay, it meant that cases of rights violations would keep rising.

By Krixia Subingsubing, Abby Boiser and Inquirer Visayas

EXPECTATIONS A woman in Manila minds her store while sewing clothes and watching President Marcos deliver his State of the Nation Address on Monday. In his second year in office, Mr. Marcos promised to provide Filipinos with a stable food supply and quality education and health care. —RICHARD A. REYES

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11 regions feel impact of 'Egay'

The affected barangays, as identified in a predisaster risk assessment the other day, are found in much of Luzon — the Cordillera, Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan), Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) and Bicol regions — and the entirety of the Visayas: Western, Eastern and Central Visayas regions.

By Jerome Aning

OPINION

'Not bad'

Corruption may be endemic in our country but that doesn't give public officials, tasked with safeguarding the public interest, the license to be complicit in it. Instead of being overwhelmed or eaten up by the system, officials like Pangandaman should do everything they can, no matter how seemingly small, to fight corruption in their departments. It's one thing to promise to fix a broken PS-DBM to forestall calls for its abolition, and quite another to actually have the will to do it.

By Editorial

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