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                    [Title] => Hog raisers assure enough pork supply
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Hog raisers assure that there is adequate supply of pork in the market despite earlier statements made by food processors that a planned pork holiday is being used to mask a short supply situation.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473425 [AuthorName] => Louella Desiderio [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 803362 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Meat holiday [Summary] =>

In a rare mass action, hog raisers staged a “pork holiday” last weekend to press the government to stop rampant meat smuggling.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img94/9220/startoonthumbw.gif ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 773744 [Title] => SMC, Bounty Fresh eye chicken exports to Korea [Summary] =>

Diversifying conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) and Bounty Fresh Food Inc. is negotiating with Korean firm Sinwoo Food Inc. for a possible exportation of chicken to Korea, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 761747 [Title] => BAI not mandated to limit volume of meat imports - official [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) said it is not mandated to restrict the volume of meat imports.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259543 [Title] => 11 baboy na kontaminado ng FMD nasabat sa Kamuning market [Summary] => May 11 baboy na sinasabing kontaminado ng Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) ang nasabat ng National Meat Inspection Commission (NMIC) at ng Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) sa Kamuning sa Quezon City.

Ang naturang mga baboy ay sinasabing nanggaling pa sa Bulacan ay takda sanang isalang sa mga katayan sa Metro Manila.

Kaugnay nito, sinabi ni director Efren Nuestro ng NMIC na higit pang pinatindi ng kanyang mga tauhan ang pagmo-monitor sa mga karneng ibinabagsak sa mga palengke sa Metro Manila na nagmumula sa mga probinsiya upang mapangalagaan ang kapakanan ng mga mamimili.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236547 [Title] => Mga opisyal ng BoC sa Batangas Port masisibak dahil sa puslit na P50-M manok [Summary] => BATANGAS CITY – Nalalagay ngayon sa balag ng alanganing masibak sa puwesto ang mga opisyal ng Bureau of Customs (BoC) sa Batangas Port makaraang makapuslit noong Biyernes ang P50-milyong manok na pinaniniwalaang kontaminado ng birds flu virus mula sa Taiwan.

Ipinag-utos na ni Bureau of Customs Commissioner Antonio Bernardo ang malawakang imbestigasyon laban sa mga opisyal ng BoC na nakatalaga sa Batangas Port dahil sa pagkakapuslit ng 14 na 40-footer refrigerated vans na naglalaman ng P50-manok mula sa Kaoshiung, Taiwan.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 207235 [Title] => P400-M meat plant to rise in Mindanao [Summary] => New York-based TLC Beatrice Foods is putting up a P400-million world-class integrated meat processing and cold storage facility in Mindanao.

The company, whose local unit, TLC Beatrice Foods Philippines Inc. is owned by Filipino-American businesswoman Loida Nicolas Lewis, will construct the plant in the sprawling Phividec Industrial Estate in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental.

Earlier, TLC invested P40 million on a similar but smaller facility in Naga City in the Bicol region.

Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. confirmed TLC’s plans in Mindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204451 [Title] => DA plans to privatize public slaughterhouses [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture is planning to privatize the country public slaughterhouses.

The proposed move according to Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. will hasten the upgrading of these facilities and will also accelerate the modernization of the livestock industry, which last year posted a gross value of P110.8 billion.

The National Meat Inspection Commission (NMIC) will shortly come up with a privatization scheme for the country‚s existing public slaughterhouses or abbatoirs currently being operated by local government units (LGUs).
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191925 [Title] => High pork prices not due to imports, says DA official [Summary] => The economic slowdown, increased smuggling and the shift in consumer demand resulted in depressed pork prices in recent months, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said yesterday.

Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) animal quarantine division chief Ronel Avila said these factors contributed to the continued decline in local pork prices.

"These factors were the primary reasons for depressed pork prices, not importation as is what is being claimed by the local hog industry, said Avila.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183347 [Title] => Meat group slams DA official on smuggled pork [Summary] => A meat processors group assailed yesterday an agriculture official for issuing "exaggerated" advisory, which, they said, strongly affect the country’s meat processing industry.

In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, the Philippine Association of Meat Processors, Inc. (PAMPI) branded the statement of National Meat Inspection Commission chief Efren Nuestro as "irresponsible and malicious."
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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