Marcos wants efficient rollout of P45B PH rural dev’t project

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr seeks an efficient implementation of the P45-billion Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) to develop the agriculture sector, Malacañang said Tuesday.

The program is aimed at creating a modern, value-chain-oriented, and climate-resilient agri-fishery sector by providing important key infrastructure.

This scaled-up version of the PRDP was aimed at “building on the gains” the program achieved in recent years to “further improve the access of farmers and fisherfolk to markets for increased income,” said the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).

“Our priorities are going towards the same direction... Again, we will just have to scale up and do the necessary things,” Marcos said during his meeting with the officials of the World Bank in Malacañang to ask about its sta-