“The Masagana 99 program "made the [Philippines] self-sufficient and a rice exporting country" as one of the "many milestones" in the 125-year history of the Department of Agriculture.”
What Vera Files found
Seven years after Masagana 99 was launched in May 1973, the program became inconsequential and was quietly discontinued in 1984, according to a research by the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center (UP TWSC). Although the Philippines achieved rice self-sufficiency in 1976, Kenneth Smith, who worked in the Philippines from 1971 to 1976 as advisor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), said Masagana 99 owed its “qualified” success to the expansion ...
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In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (President) made this claim around 20 June 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 23 June 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pco.gov.phhttps://pco.gov.ph/presidential-speech/speech-by-president-ferdinand-r-marcos-jr-at-the-1…
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/bFqLeYr81W0?t=131
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