THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is “finalizing its talks” with a Finnish tire technology firm to build a tire manufacturing plant in North Cotabato to boost the Philippine rubber industry, it said in a statement this week.

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said he and other officials of the DA would be meeting with executives of the Black Donuts Engineering Co. of Finland to discuss the scope and the details of an initial feasibility study.

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