He said alongside achieving rice sufficiency by end of 2013, the Department of Agriculture will help propel the vegetable industry increase the current 65-per cent sufficiency level to 100 per cent within the medium term or 2016. Also in photo are (from left) Agusan del Norte 2nd District Representative Ma. Angelica Rosedell Amante-Matba, DA-CARAGA Regional Executive Director Edna Mabeza, Philippine Vegetable Industry Development Board chairman Marcelino Remotigue, Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand Amante, Jr., and Regional Agriculture and Fishery Council Association of the Philippines President Edgardo Codilla. ­­(Photo by Jose Lucas, DA Information Service)

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