'Expert needed to head agri dept'

By Catherine S. Valente

Jan 23, 2023 12:04 am

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is not keen on appointing a military man to the Department of Agriculture (DA), saying that an expert on agriculture should be appointed to lead the department.

Marcos made the statement amid repeated calls for him to appoint an Agriculture secretary, a portfolio that the Chief Executive has been concurrently holding.

President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Je. delivers a speech upon his arrival from Davos, Switzerland at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on Saturday, January 21, 2023. PHOTO BY JOHN RYAN BALDEMOR

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