Lick poverty by improving agricultural sector–Binay

A BINAY administration will focus on improving the agricultural sector in order to provide jobs and ad-dress widespread poverty, especially in rural areas.

Toward that end, Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday said his administration will concentrate on generating jobs in the 15 provinces with the most number of poor families, especially those with pov-erty incidence greater than 50 percent: Lanao del Sur (67.3 percent), Eastern Samar (55.4 percent), Apayao 54.7 (percent) and Maguindanao (54.5 percent).