Slow progress: Workers plant rice in Los Banos town, in the Laguna province. The Philippines agriculture and fisheries sector remains far from modernised, according to experts. — AFP
OVER 26 years ago, Congress passed Republic Act No. 8435, known as the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernisation Act or Afma.
One would expect that two and a half decades later, we should be seeing palpable improvement and modernisation in our farm and fisheries sector.
