THE Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) should maximize use of equipment worth at least P6.6 million for analysis of fertilizer and pesticide samples to help farmers, the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Thursday.

Joey Salgado, chief of the Office of the Vice President’s media affairs unit, cited a Commission on Audit (COA) report saying that based on records of the pesticide services division, farmers paid P880,540 to other laboratories for analysis of pesticide products in 2014.

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