A WORLD BANK economist said the Philippines needs to move away from a policy of prioritizing specific crops while focusing on improving the resilience and sustainability of the agriculture sector.
In a virtual briefing, Eli Weiss, the World Bank senior agriculture economist, said in a report that the Department of Agriculture (DA) should also reconfigure its policy to be demand-driven rather than supply oriented.
Mr. Weiss said according to the report’s findings, the DA’s budget for 2020 remained focused on rice, which received 48% of production support services, 53% of extension support, education, and training services, and 88% of irrigation services, among others.
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