SUCs challenged on food security

FOLLOWING the warning of global experts on impending challenges to global food security, Agriculture Secretary William Dar urged key players in the agriculture sector, particularly the academe, to be at the forefront of the fight against food shortage.

He said state universities and colleges (SUCs) can step in and upscale their research on a massive level for six urgent areas of concern: balanced fertilization; urban and peri-urban agriculture; local feeds formulation and production; aquaculture and mariculture; food mobilization; and climate resiliency.