An ambulant egg vendor waits for customers as she sells her products outside the Pasay City Public Market on Libertad Street, on Thursday, 25 November 2021. 

NO TAKERS

It seems like efforts by the government to bring down the prices of meat especially pork by lowering tariff and increasing the minimum access volume of imported products have failed.

HIGH PORK PRICES

The Federation of Free Farmers called out the Department of Agriculture for reportedly misleading the people by saying that retail prices of well-milled rice have dropped by P7 per kilo, which was untrue because it was the price for regular-milled rice based on data of the Philippine Statistics Authority.

Belied! What falling rice prices?

The agriculture department is considering reimposing suggested retail prices on local and imported pork and chicken in view of price ticks in the past days, with a heightened demand due to the nearing Christmas season.

Gov’t eyes SRP on chicken, pork 

INAASAHANG magbibigay ng malaking tulong sa mga magsasaka ang mga farm machinery at iba pang kagamitan na ipinamahagi ng Department of Agriculture (DA) – Region 4A sa mga magsasaka ng Calamba City noong Nobyembre 16.

DA, namahagi ng tulong para sa mga magsasaka sa Calamba

Meat vendors at the Libertad Market in Pasay City are having a hard time selling their products, which they blamed on a "flood" of imported meat products. 

IMPORTED MEAT KILLING OFF LOCAL HOG SECTOR? 

A woman in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija does the "old-fashioned" way of removing black bugs and other pests from milled rice by shaking it with a bamboo winnower.

RICE PESTS PLAGUE FARMERS AND CONSUMERS ALIKE

Buyers tend to shy away from fish products because of their prohibitive prices at Pasay City Public Market on Wednesday, 24 November 2021. 

PROHIBITIVE FISH PRICES

STO. TOMAS CITY – WITH prices of fish already skyrocketing in local public markets throughout Batangas, expect them to fly even higher in the coming days once the local government imposes the seasonal fishing ban on all provincial waters.

No fishing allowed

The government lost P3.4 billion in tariffs on imported pork, whose tariff rates were cut and the minimum access volume raised to ensure adequate supply locally, but the measures still failed miserably in pulling down the prices of pork products.

P 3.4-B revenue losses! Lawmakers question prudence of pork tariff cuts

DA, namahagi ng tulong para sa mga magsasaka sa Calamba photo Opinyon Laguna

RICE PESTS PLAGUE FARMERS AND CONSUMERS ALIKE Mike Taboy

P 3.4-B revenue losses! Lawmakers question prudence of pork tariff cuts photo ABS-CBN News

IMPORTED MEAT KILLING OFF LOCAL HOG SECTOR Mike Taboy

What falling rice prices photo Inquirer.net

Gov’t eyes SRP on chicken, pork photo UNTV

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