Senator Cynthia Villar on Sunday said President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing of the executive order (EO) approving the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Plan (CFIDP) was a “welcome development” as it would result in the release of a P75-billion trust fund from coco levy assets to bankroll the development of the coconut industry.
As the country celebrated the 49th World Environment Day on Sunday, Senator Cynthia Villar encouraged everyone to be responsible and passionate to contribute and inspire others to do their own part in healing Mother Earth.
Senator Cynthia Villar has thrown in the towel by declaring she is no longer interested in the Senate presidency and backing the new supermajority led by Senate Majority Leader Migz Zubiri.
Through planting of vegetables, Senator Cynthia Villar led the celebration of Women’s Month in her hometown Las Pinas City.
Senator Cynthia Villar has asked her colleagues in the Senate to rally behind her proposed bill making Catanduanes in the Bicol region as “Abaca Capital of the Philippines.”
As the Philippines’ livestock industry has received scant attention and developmental assistance from the government, Senator Cynthia Villar has resolved to give it a boost.
Senator Cynthia Villar on Tuesday presided over a hearing on bills seeking to declare the Tugbo Natural Biotic Area in Masbate as a protected area, and to reclassify into an agricultural land a portion of the Mangabul Forest Reserve in Pangasinan.
Recognizing that healthy soil lays the groundwork for increased yield and income in agriculture, Senator Cynthia Villar has renewed her call to Filipino farmers to ramp up composting using organic fertilizers.
Senator Cynthia Villar cursed in exasperation not once, but twice Friday (October 22) during the Senate finance committee’s deliberation of the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture and its attached agencies.
Citing the urgency of helping our farmers due to the crippling effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Senator Cynthia Villar on Monday said she remains confident President Rodrigo Duterte would sign into law the proposed Cash Assistance to Filipino Rice Farmers Act of 2020.
