UNDER the Department of Agriculture (DA), the proposed Bureau of Cooperative would play a pivotal role in consolidating fragmented farmlands to enable the Philippines to achieve economies of scale and agro-industrial modernization.

Sen. Richard Gordon said the government should promote "cluster" farming or cooperative farming in order that a large scale of land could be consolidated amid the agrarian reform's land fragmentation.

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