Farm Fridays with Jennifer Ng: Agricultural Value Chain with economist Pablito M. Villegas
In this episode of Farm Fridays, BusinessMirror Associate Editor Jennifer Ng and University of the Philippines economist and former Land Bank of the Philippines President Pablito M. Villegas talked about the challenges facing local planters, particularly smallholders.
Villegas was a former Senior Adviser of former Agriculture Secretary Salvador H. Escudero III and has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN) and United Nation's Development Program (UNDP) as Chief Technical Adviser/Senior Agricultural Economist.
At present, Villegas is the Owner-Operator of the Villegas Organic and Hobby Farms and the Sustainable Agriculture and Entrepreneurship (SAGE) Learning Center in Malvar, Batangas, Philippines. He is also the General Manager of the Malvar Organic Farmers Agriculture Cooperative.
Farm Fridays with Jennifer Ng, which airs every 2nd and 3rd Friday of the month, is a series of the BM Broader Look Podcast that discusses issues surrounding Philippine agriculture.
Farm Fridays is hosted by Ng, who puts to bed the paper's award-winning Agriculture and Commodities page.
The BM Broader Look Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Podbean, Spotify, Breaker, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Anchor.fm and Overcast.
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