Pangilinan prioritizes food security in Senate bid

The Manila Times

Pangilinan prioritizes food security in Senate bid  Former senator and agriculture secretary  Kiko Pangilinan  is prioritizing food security in his 2025 Senate bid, calling for a 'food revolution' to fight hunger, support farmers, and promote urban agriculture during a visit to Cebu on April 10. Among his proposed bills are measures to lower food prices, limit excessive imports, expand school-based feeding using local produce, and encourage community and rooftop farming. He also wants to convert idle public land into productive farms.  VIDEO BY KAISER JAN FUENTES  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #TMTNews #Philippines #Election2025

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00:00We have a lot of issues regarding the quality of education and the challenges of our education sector.

00:13It is an education sector that is in crisis.

00:16And a huge chunk of the challenges facing our education sector is poverty of our families.

00:26And part of the effects, the deleterious effects of poverty, is hunger and malnutrition.

00:36There are data that shows, statistics, they compared schools with free meals and schools without.

00:50And it turns out, up to almost 30% less dropouts in schools with free meals and school meals program.

01:04And double-digit din yung improvement sa test scores ng mga schools with feeding programs.

01:15It means, compared to those schools na walang free meals.

01:19Which means, may direct relationship and hunger sa quality of learning as well as the dropout breaks.

01:32And so, to address this, we have, there are various feeding programs ng DIMG, DSWD, MGU.

01:45The DIMG, DIMG, DIMG, RUDOAN, MGU.

01:46And I believe that it is very clear, you need to streamline, to organize, and to be able to organize,

01:50a real-organize for policy across the world.

01:55Therefore, we are proposing a free-almusal program.

02:02Yung libre-almusal.

02:04from daycare center hanggang grade 12.

02:11Dalawa ang dahilan. Number one, of course primarily is the welfare and the education of our children.

02:22Thank you. They are more educated and the quality of their learning improves immensely

02:28and the droughts will be reduced significantly.

02:36And second, half, half to half of the food that is to be served in this meals program

02:43should be from local farmers and fishermen directly.

02:48It should not be centralized because we experience a centralized living program.

02:54When it comes to quality, when it comes to the school,

03:00the other ones have a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot or a lot.

03:05So it has to be decentralized.

03:07And when you buy directly from farmers in Fisherville,

03:11it's really good quality.

03:14And of course, it's not worth our farmers.

03:18And added in the gap, we will in the government

03:22that it's not the middleman that will be left,

03:26if it's not the government that will be right,

03:30at the right price.

03:31So you hit two birds with one stone.

03:34You address the challenges of education, quality education,

03:37and you address the incomes of our farmers in Fisherville and food security.

03:44Sir, I'll debate kayo ng Sagip Saka.

03:47Yes.

03:48Yes.

03:49And in relation to that,

03:52we will incorporate Sagip Saka Act in the program.

03:57What is Sagip Saka Act?

03:59When the government under that law,

04:01which I was the principal author,

04:03pag bumili ang gobyerno,

04:04direct na sa Farmers and Fisherville,

04:06ng kanilang food requirements,

04:11leading program, calamity rate,

04:13wala na public bidding.

04:14Excented na sa procurement.

04:16So it will be in the tamang preso.

04:18So we will incorporate that.

04:20The Sagip Saka Act has also been,

04:24how do you call it,

04:27delayed in its own implementation.

04:29In fairness to the DA,

04:31it has mandated that it become a top priority

04:36accessing the market by farmers.

04:39Why?

04:40Because the single biggest buyer of food

04:42sa aking bansa,

04:43is the government,

04:44national and local.

04:46You have calamity relief.

04:47Every time may calamity,

04:49di ba mayroong food packs,

04:51maybe gas.

04:52Lumpi anong nagliliging niya

04:55throughout the time.

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