The Philippines intends to import less rice in 2023, an Agriculture executive said. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian made the statement following the projection of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that the Philippines rice importation will hit 3.8...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), DA Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has called on the "rice czar" of Department of Agriculture (DA), Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian, to follow Malacañang's policy of...
It was a "procedural mistake." President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. This was what President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said about the sugar importation mess involving several government officials, who were all absolved of any liability" over the incident last year. Marcos said he will...
Malacañang on Tuesday, Aug. 23 denied knowledge of the attempted importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar to address the supposed supply deficit in the country. Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez said it was only on Aug 10 that they learned that former Department of Agriculture (DA)...
Amid pressure from senators to disclose the persons who supposedly influenced him to sign the unauthorized order on the importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar, former Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian said Tuesday, Aug. 23 that nobody was behind his move...
The sugar import mess has taken a turn for the worse for resigned officers of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) as lawmakers on Monday, Aug. 22, mulled the possibility of demanding for stiff penalties for those responsible for the foiled attempt to...
House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto asserted on Tuesday, Aug. 16, that the importation of the right volume of sugar must be “solely based on science and insulated from lobby and politics.” Batangas 6th District Rep. Ralph Recto (Senate PRIB) In doing so, Recto said in a statement, sugar demand and...
Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles has stated that Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez was acting upon the instructions of President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos, Jr., and had no participation in the illegal importation bid of 300,000 metric tons of sugar , Angeles made this disclosure after...
Agriculture Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian has stepped down from his post amid the ongoing probe on the "illegal" sugar importation order. (Courtesy of OPS) Through a letter to President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. dated Aug. 11, Sebastian resigned as the Department of Agriculture (DA)...
