After government hurdled the rice crisis, the country's agriculture sector faces bright prospects up to the year 2000. For the rest of the decade, the agriculture sector is expected to grow annually at the average 3% to 4%, far above its 1981-averagegrowth of 1.1%, according to Bernardo Villegas, dean of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) school of economics. In a paper titled The Philippines as an Emerging Star in East Asia, Villegas noted that " improved infrastructure and more efficient farmers cooperatives partly explain that the improvement in the agricultural sector."
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