IT has not been possible for Congress to pass a law banning the conversion of prime agricultural lands into residential and commercial uses, a ban without riders and exemptions, with Sen. Cynthia Villar heading the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform — and also head of the Senate oversight on all issues to do with agriculture. Not even a seminal step toward that direction has been undertaken during her long incumbency as chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Which is quite understandable.
