The Department of Agriculture has shown good moves since it started its budget hearings last April 11. These should be pursued and built upon.
Action is already being taken on two of the conditionalities recommended by the international trade committee of the public-private Philippine Council of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Second is the restoration of the public-private committee monitoring the DA budget down to the provincial and municipal levels. This will prevent a similar instance in 2020 when the Commission on Audit discovered P22 billion in unliquidated and unexplained expenses in the P66-billion DA budget. Prior to President Marcos’ instruction to significantly increase the DA budget, the share of agriculture to the total national budget was only 2 percent for the Philippines, compared to 4 percent for Thailand and 6 percent for Vietnam.
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