KORONADAL CITY—President Marcos graced on Wednesday the launching of South Cotabato province's rice production and modernization program but did not discuss in detail his campaign promise to bring down the price of the nation's staple to P20 per kilo. Spending less than an hour in nearby Banga town with farmers and agriculture officials, the President, the concurrent agriculture secretary, pushed for the mechanization of rice farming in line with his administration's efforts to achieve food security.

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