Masagana 99 both a success and a failure, experts say
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an emergency program in response to the severe rice shortage due to pests and natural disasters occurring at the time government tapped the country’s academics and scientists, Dr. Edgardo Quisumbing, former deputy implementer of the program, Masagana 99 an agricultural program aimed at solving the c
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- an emergency program in response to the severe rice shortage due to pests and natural disasters occurring at the time
- government tapped the country’s academics and scientists,
- Dr. Edgardo Quisumbing, former deputy implementer of the program, Masagana 99
- an agricultural program aimed at solving the country’s then-worsening rice shortage was developed. It was called Masagana 99, after the Filipino word for “bountiful” and the target number of cavans per hectare of rice to be produced under the program.
- Scientific research and technology played important roles in the program
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