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November 23-25, Laoag City

Philippines: 2,000 organic growers gather at three-day congress

The Duterte administration will make a pitch for organic farming during the 13th National Organic Agriculture Congress, which will be staged in Laoag City on November 23 to 25.

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol will deliver the keynote address to 2,000 farmers from all over the country who are expected to attend the three-day event.

Two other Cabinet officials—Environment Secretary Regina Paz L. Lopez and Cabinet Secretary Leoncio B. Evasco Jr., concurrent president of the League of Organic Agriculture Movement (LOAM)—have also been invited as speakers.

“We are hopeful all three will join the congress,” said Gloria C. Parong, Department of Agriculture (DA) regional information officer. “It will signal full support to the organic-farming movement.”

Parong said the DA maintaining its original target of converting a modest 5 percent of all farmlands in the country into organic farms.

Read more at the Business Mirror
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