Tag: ASEAN
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Marketing Co-op Seen as Last Defense Against Free Trade
Why do governments sign these trade agreements that negatively impact their local producers? This article by Jimmy Laking, in the Phillipine Baguia Midland Courier, underscores the need to strengthen farmers marketing cooperatives to cope with the onslaught of vegetable products from China, that will flood the market, when the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement comes into…