LUCENA CITY — The farmers group Kilusan Para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Katarungang Panlipunan (Katarungan) lamented President Duterte’s apparent lack of concrete plans on how to use the coconut levy fund after three years in office. During the presidential campaign trail in 2016, Duterte, then Davao City mayor, had promised in Catanauan, Quezon that the funds would be distributed to coconut farmers within 100 days of his presidency. The fund, now with the government, is estimated to be around P100 billion. Carranza also expressed alarm over the president’s admission that he had not found an honest man to manage the fund. Carranza scoffed at the president’s plan to establish a coconut farmers’ trust fund.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 23, 2019 03:22 UTC