Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary for Special Concerns and for Official Development Assistance (ODA) – Foreign Aid/Grants Jerome Oliveros and KOPIA Philippines Center Director Kyu Seong Lee visited the sites of the “Pilot Village Project on Protective Cultivation and Postharvest Management of Vegetables.”
During the visit, Usec. Oliveros reiterated that one of the marching orders of DA Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr. is to propagate greenhouses all over the country to increase production and provide affordable agricultural commodities for consumers.
KOPIA is an ODA program of the Rural Development Administration (RDA), which is Korea’s largest agricultural research and development organization. ### (photos by Joseph Henry Elamparo, DA-AFID)
