MUÑOZ, PHILIPPINES – Senator Cynthia A. Villar pushed for more training of smallholder farmers in agribusiness and entrepreneurship in her keynote speech at an international conference on carabao-based enterprise development here. Represented by her Chief-of-Staff Atty. Rheagee Tamaña, Sen. Villar, who chairs the Senate Committees on Agriculture and Food, Agrarian Reform, Environment and Natural Resources, also stressed the need to remove barriers to their success through financial literacy and mechanization drive, among others. Legislative reforms pursued by the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food under her leadership include RA 10848 or the Act Extending the Period of Implementation of the…
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