Minda

First Abaca Encounter!

This was on May 21, 2016, one week after then President-elect Rody Duterte announced that I was going to be his Agriculture Secretary.

One month and three days after I officially assumed as a full-fledged Cabinet Secretary, on August 3, 2016, I returned to Sogod, Southern Leyte and delivered the first P50-M assistance for the rehabilitation of the Abaca industry.

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Manny Piñol

Emmanuel "Manny" Fantin Piñol (born December 16, 1953) is a Filipino journalist, writer, agriculturist, environmental protection advocate and politician. He served as Mayor of M’lang, Cotabato from 1995 to 1998, Governor of Cotabato from 1998 to 2007, Vice Governor from 2007 to 2010, Agriculture Secretary from June 30, 2016 to Aug. 5, 2019 and Chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority from Aug. 6, 2019 to Oct. 5, 2021. He authored the book “Feeding Millions” published in 2015 and introduced innovations in Agriculture such as the digital crop suitability map (www.farmersguidemap.do.gov.ph), the Solar-Powered Irrigation Technology, crafted Road Maps for the different basic crops and helped the Dept. of Agriculture achieve a historic high rice harvest of 19.28-million metric tons in 2017. He also initiated the National Food Consumption Quantification Study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization. He is the first and only Filipino Agriculture Secretary to be elected Chairperson of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization biennial conference in Rome from 2017 to 2019. He is now one of the candidates for the Philippine Senate.