DA DEFENDS BUDGET: Senator Sergio R. Osmea III (right) raises some issues surrounding the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture for 2006 and the controversial fertilizer fund scam which presumably occurred before the May 2004 presidential elections. Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban (left) and Undersecretary Edmund Sana led DA officials in defending the departments budget proposal. (Photo by Albert Calvelo, Senate PRIB)