The Department of Agriculture is eyeing more public-private partnership (PPP) projects to help boost the local agriculture and fisheries sector and move it toward industrialization. During the PPP forum conducted by the DA’s Project Development Service (PDS) last November 24, Agriculture Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Regulations Mercedita Sombilla said that “PPP is the way we need to go” to help boost the country’s agricultural production. “I hope that as we continue to have fora like this in the future, we can develop more and more PPP projects that would really push the agricultural sector further than what we really target,” said Sombilla.

Miguel, J. A. (2023, November 28). DA eyes more PPPs for farms, fisheries. The Manila Times, p. B2.