Emmanuel "Manny" Fantin Piñol

Emmanuel "Manny" Fantin Piñol (born December 16, 1953) is a Filipino journalist, writer, agriculturist, environmental protection advocate and politician. He served as Mayor of M’lang, Cotabato from 1995-98, Governor of Cotabato from 1998-07, Vice Governor from 2007-10, Agri Sec from 2016-19 and Chair of MinDA 2019-21. He authored the book “Feeding Millions” published in 2015 and introduced innovations in Agri such as the digital crop suitability map, the Solar-Powered Irrigation Technology, crafted Road Maps for the different basic crops and helped the DA achieve a historic high rice harvest of 19.28M metric tons in 2017. He also initiated the Nat'l Food Consumption Quantification Study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Org. He is the first and only Filipino Agriculture Secretary to be elected Chairperson of the UN Food and Agri Org biennial conference in Rome from 2017 to 2019. He was one of the candidates for the Philippine Senate 2022. Now an advocate of Rural Development.