House bill officially declares adobo as national food

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This congressmen which they call themselves HONORABLE should be impeached or jailed for plunder. Why Plunder? Cause they are paid by peoples money and receive pdaf worth 70M per year and all they can do is come up with a bill as such. Total waste of tax payers money.

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is that his real name?

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Bill on national vegetable passed

The House of Representatives unanimously approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to declare malunggay as the national vegetable to promote its nutritive and medicinal properties and agribusiness potential.

House Bill 2072, principally authored by Pangasinan Rep. Gina de Venecia, also sets November as “National Malunggay Month”.

The measure, which will be transmitted to the Senate, provides that the Secretary of Agricultre, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, Secretary of Health and the Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, shall promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of the proposed act, within 60 days from approval thereof.

Under the measure, malunggay, or scientifically known as ‘moringa oliefera’ and dubbed as a “miracle vegetable or nature’s medicine cabinet” by scientists and health care workers from around the world, is loaded with vitamins and minerals that can be an effective remedy against many kinds of ailments.

Citing a report by the Biotechnology Program Office of the Department of Agriculture, De Venecia said malunggay has been found by biochemists and molecular anthropologists to be rich in vitamins C and A, iron, and high density lipoprotein or good cholesterol.

“Our country is presently expanding the local market for Malunggay and its by-products with the aim of enhancing the agribusiness potentials of various crops as part of the government’s poverty-alleviation and health care programs,” De Venecia said.

“Now we can say that Malunggay can save lives, increase incomes, generate millions of jobs, utilize vast tracts of idle agricultural lands, and help attain socioeconomic equity.”

Source: Bill on national vegetable passed - Manila Standard Today

Bill on national vegetable passed - Manila Standard Today