Agriculture chief grateful to Duterte for ‘trust, confidence’ in return of 3 agencies to dept

AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol expressed on Wednesday his gratitude to President Rodrigo Duterte for the “trust and confidence” in his department, following his order to return three agencies to the Department of Agriculture (DA).

In his Facebook post, Piñol said the decision of the President to place the National Food Authority (NFA), the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and the Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority (FPA) under the DA would be “an added task and challenge to the workers of the department.”