Hog Farm Gate Price

[laguna_piglets]

ang dapat lang iniimport na bansa natin itong OFFALS or waste parts ng pigs sa america like tenga, lamang loob (intestines lungs hearts except sa liver).. Pero may mga prime porks kasing nakakalusot sa market.. kaya ang aksyon ng propork ay paigtingin ang dagdag na pataw sa singil sa pork offals at malimitahan ang pagpapasok ng imported meats.

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Solons nudge BOC, DA on Smuggling
Sunday, 04 March 2012 22:58
Rene Acosta / Reporter


Members of the House Special Committee on Food Security have asked the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to look into the possibility of revising existing procedures on the inspection of agricultural products, particularly imported chicken and pork to better curb smuggling.

The current customs boss, Commissioner Rozanno Ruffy Biazon is a former member of the House of  Representatives.

Earlier, Dave Catbagan, assistant agriculture secretary, said in effect that the problem of technical smuggling at the customs bureau could longer be fixed.

He said he had been with the DA for 34 years and he could no longer recall how many agreements and memoranda have been signed by his department with the BOC to address the problem. “They are not being implemented or enforced,” he said.

Members of the House special panel agreed with the proposal of their chairman, Rep. Agapito Guanlao (Butil party-list), that the two agencies must change their existing inspection arrangements by allowing the DA to check on arriving shipments or containers of agriculture products even before any customs activities take place.

The lawmakers said the arrangement should check smuggling activities by unscrupulous businessmen and importers, other than strengthening quarantine procedures.

The special committee, along with the House Committee on Agriculture and Food is currently investigating the Minimum Access Volume (MAV), a trade arrangement that the country embraced when it signed the World Trade Organization-General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), and its effects into the local livestock industry.

MAV was being fingered as the principal reason behind the flood of imported chicken and pork meats into the local market, threatening the extinction of the livestock industry.

MAV allowed traders and in the country to import chicken and pork products at reduced tariff rates, the total volume of which is within the quota of 54,210 metric tons or 54.21 million kilos of pork and 23,490 metric tons or 23.49 million kilos of chicken meat products annually.

But because of smuggling, which could not be checked by the BOC, more than the allowed quota are being brought into the country and are finding their way into the market.

The lawmakers said inspectors from the DA, including quarantine personnel must be the first to check on agriculture products even before they could land in ports or immediately upon their arrival, and not the other way around as currently practiced by the two agencies.

“The change in the procedure also enables more stringent inspection as to the nature and content of the imported agricultural products,” they said.

Earlier, Dave Catbagan, DA assistant secretary, said in effect that the problem of technical smuggling at the BOC could longer be fixed.

He said he had been with the DA for 34 years and he could no longer recall how many agreements and memoranda that they have signed with the agency in order to address the problem.

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BusinessMirror.com.ph
Solons nudge BOC, DA on Smuggling
Sunday, 04 March 2012 22:58
Rene Acosta / Reporter


Members of the House Special Committee on Food Security have asked the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to look into the possibility of revising existing procedures on the inspection of agricultural products, particularly imported chicken and pork to better curb smuggling.

The current customs boss, Commissioner Rozanno Ruffy Biazon is a former member of the House of  Representatives.

Earlier, Dave Catbagan, assistant agriculture secretary, said in effect that the problem of technical smuggling at the customs bureau could longer be fixed.

He said he had been with the DA for 34 years and he could no longer recall how many agreements and memoranda have been signed by his department with the BOC to address the problem. “They are not being implemented or enforced,” he said.

Members of the House special panel agreed with the proposal of their chairman, Rep. Agapito Guanlao (Butil party-list), that the two agencies must change their existing inspection arrangements by allowing the DA to check on arriving shipments or containers of agriculture products even before any customs activities take place.

The lawmakers said the arrangement should check smuggling activities by unscrupulous businessmen and importers, other than strengthening quarantine procedures.

The special committee, along with the House Committee on Agriculture and Food is currently investigating the Minimum Access Volume (MAV), a trade arrangement that the country embraced when it signed the World Trade Organization-General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), and its effects into the local livestock industry.

MAV was being fingered as the principal reason behind the flood of imported chicken and pork meats into the local market, threatening the extinction of the livestock industry.

MAV allowed traders and in the country to import chicken and pork products at reduced tariff rates, the total volume of which is within the quota of 54,210 metric tons or 54.21 million kilos of pork and 23,490 metric tons or 23.49 million kilos of chicken meat products annually.

But because of smuggling, which could not be checked by the BOC, more than the allowed quota are being brought into the country and are finding their way into the market.

The lawmakers said inspectors from the DA, including quarantine personnel must be the first to check on agriculture products even before they could land in ports or immediately upon their arrival, and not the other way around as currently practiced by the two agencies.

“The change in the procedure also enables more stringent inspection as to the nature and content of the imported agricultural products,” they said.

Earlier, Dave Catbagan, DA assistant secretary, said in effect that the problem of technical smuggling at the BOC could longer be fixed.

He said he had been with the DA for 34 years and he could no longer recall how many agreements and memoranda that they have signed with the agency in order to address the problem.

Matagal nang magkasabwat ang BOC at DA... Maski ano pang pa ikot-ikot...  Laging Makakalusot ang smuggling.  Kaya sabi ni Asst. Sec. Catbagan... "SMUGGLING AT THE BOC COULD NO LONGER BE FIXED"

[up_n_und3r]

I just like to share the response from our DA Secretary on my email to him.
Not sure if he is really seeing the right picture but I'm dissatisfied to the answers to my 2 simple questions.
Action plans are not concrete to solve our problems and is not for short-term period, too.
In short, I think we really are on our own.

I just appreciate that he had the time to respond to it.

[up_n_und3r]

Sorry, thumbnail version pla na share ko.

Here it is:

[up_n_und3r]

Here's the link if this is still unreadable.

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[allen0469]

@UP_,
tama po kayo wala man lang sya binangit na assurance sa ating backyard hog raisers,kaya talagang wala parin tayong mapala sa government ni PINOY sayang akala natin ok na ok ang ating SEC of DA puro pa pugi diin pala,sariling kayod na mga wala pang suporta galing  government.

[arnold811]

Sir Kiko:

Good Day!

I read your letter to Secretary Alcala, I am proud of you for bringing our problem to the Secretary, since he made a reply to you just like the other member said, No assurance was given to us, as per your suggestion in order to protect back yard raisers, it is the time that the government would act on your two suggestions. as follows:

1. The Government will control and regulate the prices of Feeds.
2. Banning of Importation of Meats.

I would suggest also the farm to market road must be implemented by the government in order to reduce the cost of transportation. since the practice now is that My farm to market road.

It is the time now for the Lawmakers to pass a Law regulating the prices of feeds, also, DTI should intervene on these matters because they are the one regulating the prices of commodities.Further to my suggestions, ito na ang panahon para baguhin ang mga parusa sa mga mahuhuling smuggler at mga kakuntsaba nila sa BOC, dapat ang parusa sa kanila ay BITAY.



Kasi sa atin unti unti din nila tayo pinapatay, kasama buong pamilya natin.

Maraming Salamat po!

[allen0469]

ask lang mga friend bakit kasi pati project sa farm to market road ay bigyan pa budget ng DA dapat yan nasa DPWH na project yan mag concentrate ang budget ng DA sa agriculture,at isa pa ang talag na yang farm to market na yan hindi parin na tapos tapos kasi ang budget binubulsa.mag stick lang ang DA sa agriculture production and management para mapa ganda nila ang local na produkto ng taong bayan hindi na sila mahirapat mag import kasi yan naman ang problima nila ang sabi nilang kulang ang production so bigyan nila ng magandang system sa kapakaman ng producer at buyer walang talo ang tao, buhay tayong lahat.

[Tinkerbell]

@up
Ay naku yan na ang standard response ng DA palagi kapag may inquiries sila matatanggap regarding sa pork importation....matagal ng problema hanggang ngayon wla pa ring maibigay na "effective solutions"....
Ang kulang kasi sa kanila is preparedness..alam n natin n nasa more than 20 typhoons ang pumapasok sa ating bansa kya dapat may nakahanda ng short term and long term solutions para dyan.  Palagi n lang kasi sa typhoon kaya nagmahal ang feeds...why not collaborate to a nearby country that if in case may typhoon...import tau sa knila and then in exchange kapag sila naman nangailangan ganun din...marketing strategy ang kulang sa DA. They must know how to sell themselves. Risk management also plays an important role sa isang company or govt. agency. Hinahayaan din nila n gawing subdivision or mall yung dapat sana rice,corn farm, etc...kaya lalo tayo nauubusan ng raw mats...sila dapat ang isa sa mga tumututol dyan sa land conversion.
You're right @up. We really are on our own...alone.

[stockrsi]

Looks like the pig farmers are being sold out by this PNOY government with the "BULOK" version of Administrative Order#22.  There is already a deal and the imported meat will continue to flood the market.  That's why Secretary Alcala is completely avoiding and even denying the issue of over-importation of meat products in his reply letter to Mr. Dizon.   



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Draft AO seen to settle PHL-US meat row
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:18 Jennifer A. Ng / Reporter
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THE United States and the Philippines may soon resolve their differences over a government regulation that affects frozen meat products once Manila issues a new regulation which contains recommendations from US meat exporters.

National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) Executive Director Jane Bacayo revealed that the draft administrative order (AO) which would replace AO 22 includes a provision that frozen meat to be sold in local markets should not be higher than 5 degrees Celsius in temperature.

“This is one of the new provisions in the replacement AO. The provision on product temperature was recommended by US meat exporters,” said Bacayo in a telephone interview.

Apart from setting the product temperature, the NMIS chief said the draft AO provides that retailers will already be allowed to place their products in coolers.

“In the draft AO, we have allowed frozen meat to be placed in coolers provided that it will observe the product temperature which we have set,” said Bacayo.

AO 22 prescribed that retail packages should be stored in refrigerated facilities and transported in vehicles that are able to maintain temperature not higher than 4 degrees Celsius.

It also compelled all entities and persons selling frozen meat to ensure that their products are accompanied by a “Meat and Meat Product Inspection Certificate.”

Meat exporters from the United States and Canada have raised concerns over the implementation of AO 22 which took effect in 2010. AO 22 effectively limited the sale of thawed frozen meat in local markets.

The United States and Canada are major sources of imported frozen meat products to the Philippines.

The draft AO, however, has not yet been issued by Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala. The NMIS, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), led the drafting of the replacement AO.

Meat processors, led by the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (Pampi) had asked the government to suspend the implementation of AO 22 pending the issuance of its replacement.

Earlier, the DA said the implementation of AO 22 has become a thorn in the agricultural trade relations between the Philippines and the US.

Manila had hinted at the possibility that the US and Canada will block the bid of the Philippines to extend the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice, a form of protection which has allowed the country to limit the influx of cheap rice imports.

The Philippines is seeking to extend the QR until 2015 citing the need to prepare local palay farmers to become globally competitive.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/24491-draft-ao-seen-to-settle-phl-us-meat-row-

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Too much pork? Hog raisers eye 'pork holiday'
By RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 03/23/2012 5:48 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Hog raisers are mulling the imposition of a "pork holiday" to protest the alleged dumping of imported frozen pork from the US and Canada.

Stakeholders have cried foul over the increase in frozen pork imports, which allegedly cut the sales of local hog raisers and led to the closure of some businesses.

Abono party-list Rep. Rosendo Co said pork importation grew by 300% in the past 3 years while 20% of the local hog industry has closed down.


Complicating matters for them is a new Department of Agriculture administrative order relaxing rules on the importation and sale of frozen meat in local markets while restricting the sale of local pork to within 8 hours after slaughter.

Co said local stakeholders feel the US dictated on the government to implement this order.

He said national hograisers will consult other stakeholders to discuss their next move and finalize their positions.

Batangas Hograisers Association president Pedrito Kalaw said in Batangas alone, local hograisers have already lost P50 million since August last year over lower sales.

"Maaaring pamahalaan naiipit sa mga babalang ito dahil lahat nalulugi. Ito po'y survival. Pag naiipit, kapit sa patalim, kikilos nang isang bagay na maaaring very drastic. Mahirap magbigay na official message. Maaaring magbigay sa hinaharap na iyan, official," he said.

Kalaw called on President Aquino to help the industry even as they continue to talk to the agriculture department for their concerns.


http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/03/23/12/too-much-pork-hog-raisers-eye-pork-holiday



Again I shall re-quote my earlier post.  "Looks like the pig farmers are being sold out by this PNOY government with the "BULOK" version of Administrative Order#22.  There is already a deal and the imported meat will continue to flood the market.  That's why Secretary Alcala is completely avoiding and even denying the issue of over-importation of meat products in his reply letter to Mr. Dizon."   

[Tinkerbell]

Customs chief dismayed by hog raisers' accusations
By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star) Updated April 24, 2012 12:00 AMComments (0)

 







MANILA, Philippines - Customs Commissioner Rufino Biazon yesterday said he was disappointed with the continued accusations that the bureau has done nothing to address the pork and poultry smuggling problem in the country.
 
Biazon said he is dismayed that even after he attended the Hog Raisers Convention in Cebu last Friday and explained the present situation at the Bureau of Customs (BOC) as well as the actions they have undertaken to address the smuggling problem, there are still those who accuse them of inaction.
 
“When I checked for updates this morning, I was somewhat disappointed. There seems to be some hog raisers who are not convinced that we are doing something and would do something to address the problem. I find it disappointing for people to say that nothing concrete was offered,” said Biazon.
 
He explained that he had long asked them “to assign industry experts at the BOC to help in assessing and scrutinizing the importations, but up to now they have not sent their representatives.”
 
“Actually, I made this offer to them months ago during our first dialogue and they failed to act on it and now they come here and say that we are doing nothing, that we have not taken concrete steps. That is disappointing,” he added.
 
Biazon said they have also ordered the transfer of the Interim Customs Accreditation and Registration Unit (ICARE) to the bureau’s Intelligence Group (IG) to weed out bogus importers.
 
“Since there are front companies, one solution is to ensure that the accreditation process has a higher level of integrity. Our IG would conduct an appropriate background check and purge the list of accredited importers and consignees,” Biazon said.
 
He has also ordered all their operating units to closely monitor and/or conduct 100 percent examination on all frozen food importations and to review the records of the country’s past frozen meat importations.
 



“We are now going through the past records of importations of the country’s top 10 food importers to check whether all their importations were covered with the required import permits from the Department of Agriculture (DA), or whether these importers did not import beyond the approved volume granted to them by the DA,” the Customs chief said.
 
He also pointed out that he has only been with the bureau for nine months and not 18 months as earlier hinted by some of his critics.
 
As to allegations that pork and chicken traders have lost P8.5 billion, Biazon said they have yet to check their records.

[--Agent47--]

mgknu po b liveweight ng baboy ngayon ?

[Redemption]

Mga Sir/Mam so far eh medyo satisfied ako sa Price ng Fatener ngayun as in hindi po nakasimangot, pantay lang ang hugis ng labi ko.. pero hindi pa smiley.. hehe.. thou I wish mas mataas pa! sana ang presyo.. sa ngayun po ang lakaran samin eh pag BIG Farms eh 105 or more per kg ang kuha sa kanila tpos sa backyard pag terms 104 at pag Cash eh 103.. for others na magbababuy eh parang mababa pa yung mga price pero unlike before naman ho na bumaba ng 80 presyo so medyo relief to..

tanung ko lang po eh palagay nyo ga po eh tataas pa ang price ng babuy at hanggang kelan kaya na tataas? AT ang mga Price ga po ng FEEDS ay hindi BABABA? balita ko po kase sa isang consultant ng feedmills na hindi ko kinukunan eh mababa na ang presyo ng mga mais at ibang ingredients tapos ang krudo po eh bumababa narin.. Pero ang sagot nya sakin hindi raw po sila mag baba kase yung price ng mais na dinadala sa kanila eh Presyong Mahal pa dahil raw po nung Umorder sila eh mahal pa yung price nung Mais.. eh yun po kayang ibang feedmills magbaba kaya ng presyo?