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Benitez allows movement of pork products to avert Bacolod food shortage

Published Feb 25, 2024 02:49 pm

BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has directed the City Veterinary Office to allow the movement of pork and other pork products to avert a food shortage in this city.

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MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez issues Executive Order No. 9 on Friday, February 23, allowing the movement of pork and other swine products in Bacolod. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod PIO)

Benitez has issued Executive Order No. 9 pursuant to the updated provisions of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF).

He said in the executive order that necessary permits and pertinent documents should accompany all shipment of live pigs, pork, pork products, and other related products.

The order was issued after Benitez and Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson signed another joint EO setting aside their initial EO in 2023 establishing the guidelines for the entry of all live pigs, boar semen, pork, pork products, and other pork-related food items from areas with reported cases of ASF.

According to the latest joint EO, this city has been tagged by the DA as ASF red zone while the province is classified as a dark green zone.

In view of the different classifications of the province and the city of Bacolod, and upon recommendation of the DA, there is a need to set aside joint EO No. 1, Series of 2023, to enable the two local government units to issue their respective guidelines on the entry of live pigs, pork, pork products, and other pork-related food items from areas with reported cases of ASF.

Amid the lifting of pork ban in this city, the provincial government continues to ban the entry of pork products into the province.

Lacson said in a media interview last week that they will continue to follow their own policy to protect the swine industry in the province.

“We will continue to be strict especially from areas that is color coded as red,” he said. “While we would like to go back to our status as one of the biggest backyard hog raisers, we have to be very strict in our protocol,” Lacson said, adding that they explained to hog raisers that they should not rush and continue to follow the protocols, as ASF may hit again anytime, and many will suffer and get affected. 

Last week, Negros Oriental Gov. Manuel Sagarbarria issued an executive order providing guidelines on the transport and movement of live pigs, pork products, and by-products into the province. 

By reopening the province's borders to hog raisers, Sagarbarria sought to create opportunities for businesses to flourish and contribute to a cost-effective market economy in Negros Oriental.

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