Several senators geared to challenge the proposal of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to ease import restrictions in a bid to lower persistently high prices of pork.
Senators Juan Miguel Zubiri, Cynthia Villar, Francis Pangilinan, Imee Marcos, Nancy Binay and Grace Poe agreed on Thursday to support a resolution against the DA’s move to cut pork tariffs and ease import limits.
Villar, Senate committee on agriculture and food chair, said the DA’s recommendations would severely affect the recovery of the livestock industry from the African swine fever (ASF) epidemic that had decimated a large part of the country’s swine population.
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