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By JUNE S. BLANCO
REP. Erico Aumentado (2nd District, Bohol) will meet the
chairs of the Senate counterpart committees to the House committees where the
bills he filed Monday have been referred.
The Bohol solon said he has asked for
separate meetings with Senator Angara who chairs the committee on agriculture,
as well as Senators Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Francis “Chiz” Escudero of the
committee on public works whom he has asked to sponsor the parallel bills. The
meeting is set on November 14.
House Bill 6682 that seeks to provide
subsidy for Filipino hybrid rice and corn planters in terms of seeds,
fertilizers, insecticides and other post-harvest facilities has been referred
to Rep. Mark Llandro Mendoza (4th District, Batangas) for deliberation.
Once the measure is approved, the solon
said the Department of Agriculture will be tasked to prepare its implementing
rules and regulations.
On the other hand, House Bill 6663 that
seeks to establish the proper monument and mini-park at the President Garcia
Avenue in Taguig City and appropriating funds for it is due for deliberation in
the appropriate committee.
He said he will ask the two senators to
sponsor the parallel bill.
The measure is geared towards more rice
self-sufficiency in terms of production. Bohol had been 113% rice
self-sufficient during Aumentado’s incumbency as governor, but this dipped the
following year and onwards because of the El Niño phenomenon.
With his subsidy proposal, he hopes to
attain better figures and in the process, become an exporter of hybrid rice and
cornto other countries
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