In Pampanga alone, more than P1 billion in modern hog-raising infrastructure is lying idle right now, prey to the rusting and decay that come with nonuse. They had weathered previous episodes of hog infestations, the Mount Pinatubo eruption, political tumult, killer floods and climactic upheavals undaunted and unbowed.The ASF epidemic was altogether a different pestilence.
The wreckage of the ASF in Pampanga is the same wreckage that swept through the farms in the other Central Luzon provinces: Bataan , the farming towns of Bulacan and the Tarlac towns adjacent to Pampanga. And in all the major hog-raising provinces hit hard by the ASF. The ASF media narrative has been about the vanished supply and the surging prices, the consumer-centric part — as always, plus those phantom price control announcements from the government, which in the real world cannot be enforced. What is lost in the usual blame game and witch hunt for the supposed overpricing culprits — we cannot, indeed, repeal the law of supply and demand — is the story of the lives brutalized by the ravages of the ASF.
What about the small rice mills that supplied the hog growers with D1, D2 and rice bran? What about the small sugar cane planters that got premium prices for their molasses supplied to the hog growers?
Not only the media but the national government that does nothing but politics and corruption
There seems to be a global movement to destroy ordinary farmers in favor of big companies. Kasama ba diyan si William Dar na gustong patayin mga local producers natin? NoToFoodImportation YesToFoodSecurity