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It is cheaper for Mindanao to ship bananas to Japan than to Manila, says ex-DA chief

The Philippines’ chronic failure to solve its geographic fragmentation has produced one of the most absurd realities in Philippine agriculture: it costs more to ship bananas from Mindanao to Metro Manila than to export them to Japan and China, former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol said Wednesday. Piñol made the statement in an interview on DZRH News program The Situation Report on…

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