IN the past, we agriculture academics and analysts complained about the relatively low funding devoted to the sector's development under the national government budget.
The budget for agriculture has hovered below 2 percent of the yearly General Appropriations Act (GAA). In contrast, neighboring Asian countries have provided budgets of 4 percent or more of their yearly appropriations. We argued then that this was one of the reasons why we could not foster sustained agricultural growth.
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