(UPDATE) THE Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday approved the interim appointments of Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. as Agriculture secretary and Teodoro Herbosa as Health secretary.

Laurel said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has instructed him to weed out scalawags in the Department of Agriculture, go after the food smugglers and increase food production.

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