THE Philippine’s Department of Agriculture (DA) in Soccsksargen Region will be scheming for a rubber growers congress to cover the entire Mindanao area. Spearheading the planning for the Mindanao Rubber Growers’ Congress are DA-Soccsksargen Regional Executive Director Amalia Jayag-Datukan, Regional…
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