Sept 9, 2013. Sen JV EJercito attends the Budget Hearing for the Department of Agriculture, and poses questions on priorities, including the preparations for the lifting of the sugar tariff in 2015 and its impact on the sugar industry.
Are we AFTA-ready? Senator JV Ejercito asked Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala during the budget deliberation to establish measures that would strengthen and make ready the local sugarcane industry against possible destabilization effects of the lifting of sugar tariff by 2015.
Sen JV Ejercito listening intently to the presentation of the Department of Agriculture on the proposed budget for 2014.
