LAWMAKERS were urged by a former Agriculture secretary to pursue their respective investigations into allegations of overprice in the contracts for urea fertilizer under the government emergency stimulus program in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
LAWMAKERS were urged by a former Agriculture secretary to pursue their respective investigations into allegations of overprice in the contracts for urea fertilizer under the governments emergency stimulus program in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Federation of Free Farmers President Leonardo Montemayor said the Department of Agriculture must address the complaints raised by farmers that the winning bids were higher than prevailing retail prices.
One would expect that since it was a centralized bidding, and they were buying in bulk, the winning bids should be lower than prevailing retail prices, said Montemayor, who led the Department of Agriculture during the Arroyo administration.
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