Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman has ordered the DAR Adjudication Board and the Legal Affairs Office to simplify and shorten legal proceedings to attain zero-backlog in agrarian cases within the five-year duration of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program extension with reform, the Philippine Information Agency reported yesterday.

Pangandaman told them to do away with some unnecessary legal steps that contribute only to the delay in resolving cases.

"We've got to do something to hasten the resolution of cases, some of them are potential powder keg," he stressed in the press release.

RP to import sugar
amid price surges

Amidst reports that refined sugar prices in some Metro Manila outlets had reached a high of P60 a kilo, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has directed a programmed importation of up to 150,000 metric tons of sugar at zero tariff through the tax expenditure subsidy of the National Food Authority, a government press release said.

That aim of the move is to ensure sufficient buffer stock at the end of the sugar milling season, it added.

"We are waiting for the Executive Order that will authorize NFA to undertake the sugar importation," Yap said.

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