RPS Agriculture foundered in choppy waters of reality

POST-DAVOS, President Marcos Jr. is now dealing with the mess and the seemingly unending woes of his flagship program — agriculture. There was no way of escaping from the messy state of agriculture, no luxury to focus on the more hopeful parts of the public sphere (a Filipino American from Texas won the Miss Universe crown to our collective rejoicing, didn't she? and gross domestic product growth breached the target for 2022). The historic high inflation rate is being driven by surging food prices and constrained supplies. In the agri sector overall, however, very few bright spots remain.