Gador Fumes at Agri-awards fiasco

SUNKEN GARDEN, MAASIN CITY – Director Marina Gador of the Provincial Agricultural Office reportedly lost her cool Tuesday morning when a technician from her office prematurely announced the winners of the Agri-fair contest at the park’s mini-forest in Barangay Pacu.

Sources claim Gador had just arrived from a meeting at the R. Kangleon Function House and was in high spirits when she was informed that Miss Emily Mercado, the congressman’s sister, had called to ask why the Agri-fair winners had been announced that morning when the contest was still in progress.

The PAO chief was angry since she knew from past experience that most of the contestants (including the winners) would lose interest and would slacken their resolve to display their best produce once the winners had been announced. And true enough this was what happened.

The giant egg plants, alimangos, giant squid, milkfish and tilapias that attracted the crowds earlier quickly disappeared and were replaced with smaller versions of their species.

“It was an amazing transformation,” noted one shopper who had bought two large mud crabs the day before. “The mud crabs I saw after the winners were announced were much smaller than those sold at the new public market and were even more expensive,” he lamented. (By ANTHONY KINGS)

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