DAGUPAN CITY: Had there been a government agency overseeing the country's salt industry in the past years, the Philippines would not be importing 93 percent of its salt requirements today.

According to Westly Rosario, former chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center, a research arm of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here, he realized this more than 15 years ago when a local salt producer asked him where to go for his concerns on the salt industry.

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