lesson the Philippines learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which iscurrent status of the Philippine economy post-pandemic, and the Chiefnoting the 96% employment rate.able to return people to work and we just posted a 96 percentMoreover, the President said that the pandemic has posed a problemcountry’s dependence on importation.has happened for the Philippines. In the past years, it became theimport more everything,” said Mr. Marcos.
made and so we have continued to develop our agricultural sector andsupply of food at prices that people can afford,” he continued.go before the rice supply in the market returns to normal but heimportant steps to start the road to recovery.are trying to put that value chain together, all the way from research“And that’s not — there are bits and pieces of it that already existachieve and we are slowly, slowly making inroads into that problem,”in prices in the country.