‘Agriculture and fisheries are our country’s hope’ for faster progress

LIGAO CITY, Albay: Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has urged Filipinos living in key cities to go back to the countryside to till the land and go into fisheries as these are the ways development can be hastened and food for a continuously growing population can be provided.

“Agriculture and fisheries are the hope of our country. Go back to the countryside because the villages with water sources or even without a water source can be farmed to feed our country. So forget your dreams of going to and staying in the concrete jungle that is Manila because you will end up under the river if [you are] unlucky,” Piñol told farmers here during the recent Farmers’ Day celebration that is part of the 16th anniversary of Ligao cityhood.