Marcos orders new DA chief to regulate prices of agri goods

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Control the rising prices of agricultural commodities.

This was President Marcos' marching order to new Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco Laurel Jr. as he assumed the post vacated by Marcos on Friday, Nov. 3. (Video Courtesy of RTVM)

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Transcript
00:00 Well, the obvious one is trying to gain control of the prices of all the agricultural commodities
00:10 that are going up.
00:11 At tinatamaan tayo ng, yun na nga, yun na pag-usapan ko, climate change.
00:16 Alam nyo na lahat yung, alam nyo na lahat yung swine flu, alam nyo na lahat yung avian
00:22 flu na tumatama sa atin.
00:25 Kaya yan, ang una natin in the immediate term, hindi lang short term, kundi in the immediate
00:33 term, kailangan natin makakontrol at tingnan kung paano natin gagawin.
00:37 At the same time, kasabay nito is the longer term, yung production atsaka cost of production,
00:42 mechanization, lahat ng mga bagay na yan.
00:47 At we will tinitignan natin ang mga ginagawa ng ating mga karatig bansa, such as Thailand,
00:55 such as Indonesia, such as Vietnam.
00:57 At baka meron tayong matutunan sa kanila na pwede nating na bagay dito sa Pilipinas.
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