“What I’m driving at is have you not considered how this will devastate the hog industry, especially backyard hog raisers? Almost 70 percent would be generated by backyard raisers, and if you import this much, almost 50 percent of our present population, won’t that cause the collapse of the local industry?” Drilon asked.
“I could not think of an act more cruel than beating to death somebody who is already dying. Such is the fate of our 80,000 local backyard hog raisers at the hands of the DA, which should have been their primary caregiver,” he said. He also criticized the supposed “machination” by Malacañang to skirt the approval of Congress in the proposal to increase the MAV, by submitting the recommendation while the Senate and House of Representatives were on recess.
“Why reduce the tariff if there is no assurance that prices will go down? The government could lose money but the prices will still not go down and I’m worried that we will also kill our local hog industry. I hope that will not happen,” he said. Dar said the President’s issuance of EO 128 lowering pork tariffs “went through a very rigorous process.”
deejayapINQ melvingasconINQ Is this what Pinol called “Duterte’s Golden Years of Philippine Agriculture”? If Imelda had Golden Kuhol, Duterte has Golden Imported Pork. On the side, Cayetano had Golden Kaldero.