DESPITE the serious threat of the El Niño on the country’s food security and economy, the government has not allotted a single peso in the P3-trillion proposed 2016 budget to mitigate the effects of the severe dry spell in the country.
This was disclosed on Friday by Senate President pro-tempore Ralph Recto, who said that there is no item in the 2016 proposed national budget labeled as El Niño mitigation fund.
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