In a news statement, the Philippine Association of Feed Millers Inc. said the country needs a “strong” industry-based corn development program to support the growing demand for the grain.
“PAFMI also fully supports the initiative bared by the Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban to increase the yield per hectare of yellow corn by 3 percent a year through a Corn Production Enhancement Project as an immediate step towards increasing harvest volumes in the coming years,” the group said.
PAFMI noted that the deficit in local output left them with “little option but to resort to importations.”