What infrastructure projects will you implement in the countryside to boost the local economy and solve unemployment?
AQUINO
“I want a train system in the Cagayan Valley region so that farmers can get the maximum benefit from the amount of labor that they have spent in producing the rice that we all eat. Another possibility is a railway system in Mindanao so that we can avail ourselves of the goods and services of this area. Lastly, there should be consensus-building and consultation among local governments to determine their problems and come up with solutions supported by the whole body.â€
ESTRADA
“As I have said, I have been there. My first priority is food security. There should be farm-to-market roads to help poor farmers since the labor force in agriculture composes 40 percent (of the total labor pool). Poor farmers need irrigation.â€
GORDON
He plans to hasten the development of tourism enterprise zones. “Tourism will bring in money from the outside, from investors, they will bring in jobs, they will bring in entrepreneurship, engineering, and everything will run by itself.†All islands, he said, should have an airport.
TEODORO
“We have to have an additional runway for Cebu. The single runway in Mactan is too vulnerable for sustainable growth in Cebu. You need also additional investments in roadworks, such as parallel roads in Escario or H. Cortes St., as traffic there has become a problem. And a third bridge between Mactan and Cebu. You also need to plan for infrastructure linking Bohol and Cebu, or perhaps even Cebu and Negros. Those are probably not attainable in one term, but we must have the plan and political unity to let the administration follow through.â€
VILLANUEVA
He said he will establish a national cooperative bank for farmers and fishers, and they will be given soft loans at three to five percent interest so they can afford to modernize through technology. He also pledged infrastructure projects that will integrate water, air and land transportation, to facilitate industrialization. He cited the need to “study the strengths and weaknesses of the provinces in order to determine what best industry in the province is to be supplied funding.â€
VILLAR
“We face a big budget deficit this year. Napakalaki ang kakulangan natin sa panalapi at napakahirap mag-implement nang significant infrastructure programs. Invest more in infrastructure, ito ay napakahalaga. But we must not forget agriculture, as 70 percent of our poor depend on agriculture. We need warehouses, so the farming poor will taste the harvest they worked for.â€
- compiled by Sun Star, Cebu Presidential Forum
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