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Solon: Ample pork supply for holidays, but hograisers losing money 

Published Nov 28, 2023 01:19 am

At A Glance

  • AGAP Party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones says the country has enough supply of hog meat for the entire holiday season. 

Antique livestock raisers get livelihood aid(Unsplash)

 

 

 

 

 

There's good news and bad news--but mostly bad news--about the pork suppy situation in the country. 

According to AGAP Party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones, the country has enough supply of hog meat for the entire holiday season. 

"Pagdating sa karneng baboy, ako'y naniniwala may sapat na suplay tayo itong Kapaskuhan hanggang sa susunod na quarter (When it comes to pork, I believe we have enough supply this Christmas up until the next quarter)," Briones said in a Facebook live interview. 

It didn't take long for the congressman to get to the bad news. 

"Kung titignan niyo ang farm gate price ng aming baboy sa aming kanya-kanyang farm, ay nasa P170 to P175 lang per kilo (if you're going to look at the farm gate price of our pork from our respective farms, it's between P170 to P175 pee kilo)," Briones said. 

"Ang mga backyard nalulugi dyan. Ang mga efficient na commercial farm sa pag-aalaga ng baboy, yun lang ang tumatabla. So ibig sabihin, mayroon tayong sapat na suplay ng baboy. Hindi nga umaangat eh (farm gate price)," explained Briones. 

(Backyard hograisers have been losing money there. Only the efficient commercial farms that raise hogs are breaking even. So that means we have enough supply of pork. The farm gate hasn't been going up.) 

Briones, chairman of the Pork Producers Federation of the Philippines and Egg Council of the Philippines, says the real dagger to local raisers is the high volume of imported pork coming into the country. 

"Masyado kaming apektado ng unlimited importation (We're so affected by the unlimited importation)," lamented the AGAP solon. 

He claimed that some 60 million kilos of pork arrive overseas on a monthly basis. "Umaabot nga na 100 million kilos ang laman ng cold storage eh (There are up to 100 million kilos inside cold storage facilties)." 

As such, Briones appealed to the government to no longer extend Executive Order (EO) no.10, which lowered the tariffs for agricultural products like pork, rice, and corn. 

"Sa baboy malinaw na naghihirap at nalulugi dahil sa pagbababa ng taripa (Clearly, the lowered tariffs have been a burden to hograisers, they've been losing money)," Briones said. 

"Yan din ang nagiging dahilan kaya napakarami nang gustong mag-import dahil napakalaki ng kinikita ng ating mga importer (That's also the reason why a lot of people want to get into importation, because the profits are huge)," he noted. 

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