Lending an ear By Lean Daval Jr. - January 20, 2017 9:19 am LENDING AN EAR. Former Department of Agriculture secretaries Luis Ramon Lorenzo (center) and Senen Bacani listen as current DA secretary Emmanuel Piñol seems to be stressing a point during yesterday’s plant inauguration of Franklin Baker Company of the Philippines in Darong, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. Piñol was the keynote speaker of the event where he laid out the plans of the Duterte administration for the agriculture sector. LEAN DAVAL JR.