COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, conduct a hearing on Senate Bill No. 450, which seeks to amend certain sections of Republic Act No. 8048 entitled “an act providing for the regulation of the cutting of coconut trees, and House Bill No. 6131, which aims to provide stiffer penalties for the unauthorized cutting of coconut trees and granting police powers to the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA). (PRIB Photo by Edward Ganal/September 25, 2012)