CABINET officials are set to recommend to President Rodrigo Duterte the abolition of the grains buying and selling functions of the National Food Authority (NFA), where reports of corruption date back to its creation in 1972 during the Marcos administration.

This was the decision of an interagency body composed of the heads of the Departments of Finance, Agriculture, Budget and Management, and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), said Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia.

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