Organic act

Presiding over the Committee on Agriculture and Food’s hearing on the amendments to the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010, Senator Cynthia Villar stressed the need to amend the law to institutionalize Participatory Guarantee System, an alternative third party certification to help small organic farmers compete in the local and global market. Photo also shows Kauswagan Mayor Rommel Arnado (center), one of the resource persons.