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Published February 8, 2021, 2:38 PM Despite the tightness in supply, the Philippine government is targeting to bring down the farm-gate price of pork in the country to P165 to P170 per kilogram (/kg), which is nearly double the commodity’s current retail cost of around P350/kg recently recorded at select markets in Metro Manila. This is amid the implementation of a new price cap on pork within Metro Manila, based on the Executive Order (EO) recently signed by President Rodrigo Duterte. During...

In an interview with CNN Philippines’, Trade Undersecretary Ruth Castelo says pork imports are expected to arrive on the second or third week of the month according to the DA.

Battle Over Anti-Terror Law Opens at the Philippines’ Top Court Critics argued for the repeal of terror law at the Supreme Court in oral arguments starting February 2. By February 04, 2021 People protest outside the gates of the Supreme Court as oral arguments start in a case against the Anti-Terror Law. Credit: Michael Beltran Advertisement On February 2, the Supreme Court in Manila held oral arguments on the whopping 37 petitions filed by various civil society gr...

“The Duterte administration's cha-cha will also pave the way for greater depletion and plunder of our natural resources due to corruption and fascist rule. It will also open up space for amendments to political provisions such as lifting of the term limits."

Pork chorizo on display at Agdao Market, Davao City. ( Manila Bulletin / File / Keith Bacongco) In a statement issued Sunday, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said that the country’s plan to import more pork in a bid to curb the rising prices of pork products in the market is not the solution. “More pork imports are not the solution to high prices. The necessary and more appropriate solution is to help and support local backyard hog raisers to help them recover from losses,” s...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 26 → Drop charges against Bulacan farmers, land developer told Drop charges against Bulacan farmers, land developer told January 26, 2021 Farmers from Norzagaray worried of their harvest left hanging to dry or rot on the land they could no longer access, for fear of retaliation from armed goons roaming the area. (Photo by Nikki Teng / Philippine Collegian) “Royal Mollucan and their Villar bosses should drop the trumped-up cha...

A militant farmers’ group denounced the “inhumane” burning of two farmer’s houses inside Hacienda Yulo in Calamba, Laguna over the weekend.

Published January 20, 2021, 1:38 PM Over 100 farmers from Southern Tagalog region marched to Quezon City on Wednesday to protest land grabbing and peasant killings in the country. Farmers from the Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka sa Timog Katagalugan (KASAMA-TK) comprised the latest protest caravan that started from Baclaran, Paranaque. Amihan National Federation of Peasant / MANILA BULLETIN The group is a regional chapter of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in the Calabarzon (Cavi...

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 19 → 6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing 6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing Demolition in Norzagaray, Bulacan (Photo courtesy of KMP) “The situation of Filipino peasants when they marched from Central Luzon to Mendiola in 1987 remains unchanged, and even worse this 2021, especially with the rising cases of peasant mass...

Published January 18, 2021, 5:47 PM Farmers and agricultural workers will march to Mendiola, Manila on January 22 to speak out on issues surrounding land grabbing, land-use conversion, and killings of farmer leaders. The Kilusang Mabubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Anakpawis, among other peasant groups, are those taking their protest to the streets in commemoration of Mendiola Massacre, which has become the symbol of their fight for land reform. Friday will be the 34th anniversary of the peaceful ...