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Bongbong’s Sugar Problem

Running the ag agency may not be as easy as it looked

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Philip Bowring
Aug 21, 2022
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Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos may be having second thoughts about having appointed himself Secretary of Agriculture in his administration. He has thus found himself in the middle of one of the first crises of his term but one which reflects years of failure of local agriculture to keep up with the growth of population, let alone the d…

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