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[Title] => Stricter biosecurity pushed amid ASF
[Summary] => The private sector is calling on the government to beef up and impose stricter biosecurity measures against the spread of the dreaded African swine fever (ASF), an epidemic that could potentially damage the country’s P260-billion hog industry.
[DatePublished] => 2019-09-15 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1475310
[AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
[SectionName] => Agriculture
[SectionUrl] => agriculture
[URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2019/09/14/argi1-pigs-swine-pork_2019-09-14_18-37-43_thumbnail.jpg
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[ArticleID] => 201211
[Title] => Further development of Mindanao as food basket pushed
[Summary] => Mindanao is the country’s food basket, producing some two-thirds of corn, coconut and banana, and a quarter of rice supply. It also hosts industries of global excellence like bananas, pineapple, tuna, seaweeds and asparagus.
Moreover, with irrigation development of which Mindanao severely lags, compared to Luzon and Visayas, the one million tons annual imports of agri-food could be reversed in five years.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-02 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 171634
[Title] => Food chamber backs GMA’s SONA targets
[Summary] => The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI), an umbrella organization in agriculture, fisheries and food industries, has expressed its full support for President Arroyo’s vision for a strong republic.
"The SONA was a well crafted speech and speaks well of a strong leader," Col. Alex T. Escaño, PCAFI president, said.
Escaño said PCAFI members share a common desire to help solve the country’s problems through a four-point program that will address the economic development of the countryside.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => Agri chamber head backs AFMA
[Summary] => President Alejandro T. Escaño of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI) has urged the government to sustain support for the Agriculture and Fisheries Modrnization Act (AFMA) if the country wants to lick the high poverty incidence of 40 percent of the population.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => PCAFI backs GMA’s programs
[Summary] => The agribusiness community supports President Arroyo’s plans and programs as she outlined them in her first State of the Nation Address (SONA).
This was expressed by Alejandro Escaño, president of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI), an umbrella group of major sectoral and industry associations in the food and agriculture sectors.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-29 00:00:00
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[Title] => Group condemns 'racist' fruit importation quarantine policy
[Summary] =>
Australia is doing for the United States something it is not willing to do for
the Philippines -- a simultaneous processing of export applications.
Australia is currently conducting simultaneous pest risk analysis on three
American fruits -- almonds, Florida grapefruit, and grapes -- in violation of
its alleged existing quarantine policy, but refuses to do a similar move on
Philippine fruits, according to the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food
(PCAFI).
PCAFI on Thursday branded as "racist and discriminatory" Australia's refusal to
fast-track the sanitary testing of l
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August 11, 2002 - 12:00am
