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May 12, 2014

CSI HEARING: Senator Cynthia A. Villar, chairperson of the Senate Agriculture and Food committee, asks Erlene Manohar, PCA Region V OIC and program manager of Scale Insect Comprehensive Action Program (SICAP), on the actions being taken by their office to restrict and contain the coconut scale insect (CSI) that infested coconut trees in the Calabarzon area. During her committee’s hearing on the on the coconut trees current condition in the said region after being attacked by the airborne insect which reportedly came from abroad, Villar tells PCA to rehabilitate the coconut trees if they cannot stop the infestation during.

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