SONA 2013

He said the government aims, in the next half of his term, to pursue the following in order to fulfill the promise   oh true human progress:

-Expand the number of housing beneficiaries .
-expand the conditional cash transfer in order to include families with children up to 18 years old, in order to encourage them to keep their children in school up to the high school level.
-continue to reduce the need for rice importation, which has  steady declined from 2-million mt in 2010, to 500,000 mt last year; and 350,000 mt in 2013.
-provide more infrastructure like modern ports, roads and cold storage facilities to boost the fisheries sector, considering the fisheries sector are among the poorest.
-Continue to invest in state health sector, on top of the P33 billion poured into 4,518 hospitals rural health units and barangay health  stations nationwide.

                                    "Wastong Nutrition Para Sa Ating Nation"

This is should everyone eat a healthy food for a good health. Because eating a healthy food makes our lives longer and it is good also in preventing different kind of diseases so we should eat healthy food for a good nutrition.