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                    [ArticleID] => 243398
                    [Title] => Food processors reduce operations due to lack of pork supply
                    [Summary] => Several food processor belonging to the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. have downscaled their operations since January because of severe shortage and high cost of pork needed in their meat processing lines.


According to Francisco Buencamino Jr., executive director of the P40 billion a year meat processing industry which directly benefits 30,000 employees, said a lot of PAMPI members have reduced their operations by one shift because they find difficulty sourcing their raw materials, particularly pork, from local hog raisers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175583 [Title] => Stand your ground, expert tells firms using GMO products as raw materials [Summary] => Food companies using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their products were told to "stand their ground" in the face of highly emotional campaign being waged against GMO products by Europe-based Greenpeace Foundation in the country and abroad.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 168790 [Title] => RP’s tuna exports plunge 40%, may slide further [Summary] => The country’s tuna exports has progressively declined by over 40 percent during the last three years and this may slide further if the Philippines is not able to get equal tariff treatment for its tuna in the United States and Europe.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 166294 [Title] => DA suspends ban on meat shipments to south [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture, through the Bureau of Animal Industry, suspended recently the implementation of Administrative Order No. 5, which restricts the shipment of live animals and meat products from Luzon to the Visayas and Mindanao to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease in these otherwise FMD-free areas.

The suspension was made in view of representations by the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc., through its executive director Francisco Buencamino Jr., to BAI that such restriction has resulted in a severe lack of meat supplies in the South.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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