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PROMINENT personalities from the local rice industry
will be the resource persons of a media forum that will be sponsored
by the Philippine Agricultural Journalists (PAJ) on Tuesday next
week.
The forum is being held by the
press organization to help inform the public on the real issues
behind the recent rice crunch in the Philippines.
The resource persons are: Henry
Lim, chairman and CEO of hybrid rice producer SL Agritech; Dr.
Frisco Malabanan, director of the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA)
Rice program; former National Food Authority Administrator Jesus
Tanchanco Sr.; and Jojo Garcia, a successful hybrid rice farmer from
Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija.
Inez Magabual, an officer of the
organization and executive producer of Maunlad na Agrikultura TV
program, said the media forum will discuss the present issues facing
the Philippine rice industry, particularly the need to import the
grains, and what the government is doing to assure the country
attains rice self-sufficiency in the next few years.
The forum will be held at 10a.m.
Tuesday next week at Max’s Restaurant, Quezon Memorial Circle in
Quezon City.
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