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Agriculture chief wants rice farms to go organic |
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September 12, 2009 - MANILA, Philippines—Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap wants 10 percent of the country’s 1.87 million hectares of rice farms nationwide to go organic as one of the government’s roadmaps to address poverty and hunger. At the recent kickoff of the Go Organic! Movement in Quezon City, Yap gave his full support to the advocacy of various environmentalist groups, local government units and the academe to promote organic farming to help solve the country’s food crisis. Read more here.
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