Farmers Want Head Of Aggie Chief Dar

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I don’t know if Agriculture Secretary William Dar suffers sexual challenges or bouts with amnesia.
Lately I saw him at the receiving end of the vitriol by angry citizens at Facebook when he posed for a photo op rubbing elbows with a youthful mestizo knockout.
A delighted Dar was garbed in a stripped collar's shirt while the Filipino-Australian guy sartorial elegantly clad on a black coat and a black shirt.
He was dashing actor Robert James Marquinez Reid, 27, and commissioned by Dar as incoming youth ambassador for agriculture and agri- business to promote the beleaguered department that only brought anxieties and pains to the lowly farmers.
Rolly Manio commented: “Baka bading si Secretary kaya ginagawa niyang ambassador para lagi niyang makasama”.

A certain Caesar Fugata Moquete had scathing remarks for the 67 years old horticulturist.

THRILLED. Department of Agriculture Secretary William Dar, 67, (left) is delighted while he poses for posterity with Filipino-Australian Actor James Reid, 27, when the former commissioned him to be the D.A’s youth ambassador for agriculture and agri- business.

“Ano yan Sec. traveling boar? Anak ng itik, marunong ba magbungkal ng lupa at matanim ng kamote? Di namin kailangang mga farmer ang chick boy, kailangan namin ng agriculture projects, proper irrigation, farm machineries, quality seeds and financial subsidies. Gusto mo ng ambassador? Iyong totoong farmer alam ang hirap, andiyan si Carrot Man, Cabbage Man o graduate agricultural colleges”.

 Charlo Quirante agreed that Dar should have commissioned the hunky Carrot Boy of Baguio City who became a sensation at the online media.

Armando Pedregosa was unforgiving when he called for the head of Dar for another more qualified executive to replace the Ilocos resident at the department.

“Mahal na Pangulong Duterte maawa na po kayo sa aming mag magsasaka hinihiling po naming na pakitangal na  o si Secretary Dar dahil mula ng itininalaga po ninyo bilang Secretary wala na pong ginagawa na matino sa Department nagka letse letse  na  o ang kagawaran ng agrikultura nagkandahirap na po kaming magsasaka. Ito po ay aming panawagan kung kayo po ay may malasakit pa sa amin na mga mahihirap na umaasa lamang sa pagsasaka”.

These comments were collated by this writer at the Facebook accounts of Nick Nañgit - NCN Law and Armando Pedregosa.

Earlier, the Ilocano Dar committed a faux pas when he read, yes Virginia he read that controversial pronouncement, and said in a press conference:
“So sa bigas po ang rice outlook natin dito sa five taon na ito meron tayong demand na 14. 6 million metric ton and supply ay 17. 9 million metric ton. So my deficit tayo na 3.3 million metric ton”.
Then a meme of a long chinned late comedian Babalu blurted at Dar: “Gunggong, barilin kita sa mukha e!!!”
Under Dar prices of palay continue to plummet at the expense of the already battered members of the great unwashed.
My source, who asked for anonymity, said that farmer leaders have been recommending Jun Evasco and “Dong Mangundadato” to the power- that- be to replace him as another knight in a shining armor to deliver the magic lance how to solve the perennial puzzle on how to salvage the pathetic stocks of the sorry Filipino peasants.
“Dong is a former senatorial candidate who ranked no.14 and scion of a Maguindanao clan born in the fertile valley of Central Mindanao,” he told me.
Leoncio "Jun" Badilla Evasco Jr. was the Secretary of the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from June 2016 to October 2018. Before his appointment in the cabinet, he was the Mayor of Marigojoc town in Bohol from 2007-2016. He was ordained as priest in 1970, then he joined the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing the New People's Army in 1974.

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