Agriculture growth could still hit the 4-percent target for this year given expectations of bumper harvests and government interventions, a Cabinet official said.

Second quarter growth was basically flat, increasing by only 0.07 percent and bringing the first-half result to just 0.58 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported last week.

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