Agricultural development should be prioritized by the Duterte government to keep inflation low, a think tank said.

“[L]ow agricultural productivity and anemic agricultural growth will increase the risk of a return of high inflation and will drag down the economy as it has in 2018,” the Foundation for Economic Freedom said in a statement.

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