Published February 11, 2021, 1:01 PM
The country’s chicken production went down from October to December of last year but it didn’t result in higher farm-gate prices, the latest data from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed.
Based on the PSA data, the country’s total chicken production from October to December 2020 was estimated at 484.36 thousand metric tons (MT), liveweight, which is lower by 7.9 percent compared with the previous year’s same quarter output of 526.10 thousand MT, liveweight.
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Among the regions, Central Luzon was the top producer of chicken during the quarter with 167.79 thousand MT, liveweight.
This was followed by CALABARZON with 81.66 thousand MT, liveweight, and Northern Mindanao with 51.57 thousand MT, liveweight.
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The Mindanao Development Authority is hoping to get a P1.35-trillion allocation in the 2022 national budget. COURTESY OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
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THE MINDANAO Development Authority (MinDA) will push for a P1.35-trillion allocation in the 2022 national budget, representing 27% of the proposed P5-trillion spending plan, to realize major infrastructure and other projects.
“Mindanao has been getting a share that is lower than expected. In the last four years and a half, our highest share was last year at 16%. For 2021, Mindanao will only be getting 12%,” MinDA Chair Emmanuel F. Piñol said during the Mindanao Speaks Up forum on Wednesday.
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+ February 12, 2021 MAJOR cacao cooperatives in the country have expressed their strong opposition to Senate Bill (SB) 1741 that seeks to declare Davao City as the “Chocolate Capital of the Philippines” and Region 11 (Davao Region) as the “Cacao Capital of the Philippines.”
Consul Armi Lopez-Garcia, chairperson of the Philippine Cacao Industry Council (PCIC), said an estimated 13 cacao cooperatives aren’t supporting the bill.
A Senate hearing of SB 1741 was held Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.
“The Senate threw it back to the bicameral committee which means that the two houses, the Senate and the Congress, should agree,” she said.
House Bill 7460 entitled “An act to declare the city of Davao as the chocolate and cacao production capital of the Philippines and for other purposes,” filed by Deputy Speaker Conrado Estrella, III on Aug. 25, 2020 was passed by the House of Representatives on Jan. 18, 2021. The bill is now known as SB 1741.
Citing the data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for 2019, POPCOM-6 noted that births among girls ages 10-19 is at 9.28 percent.
“We have also noticed that live births belonging to adolescents 10-14 years old also increased from 88 in 2018 to 107 in 2019,” said Harold Alfred P. Marshall, POPCOM regional director for Western Visayas.
Of all the localities, Capiz had the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Western Visayas with 11.2 percent and followed by Guimaras province 10.5 percent.
There’s also 9.73-percent teen pregnancy rate in Aklan province, 9.6 percent in Negros Occidental province, 9.5 percent in Iloilo province, 8.3 percent in Antique province, 7.9 percent in Iloilo City, and 4.3 percent in Bacolod City.
Philippines in food security crisis amid pork shortage, says Ibon
Published February 11, 2021 9:37pm The Philippines is now in the middle of a food security crisis with the ongoing shortage of pork and a looming shortfall in chicken supply, independent think tank Ibon Foundation has said. According to Maki Pulido’s report on “24 Oras, the African swine fever left the country with fewer hogs from 12.8 million in January 2020 to 9.7 million in January 2021. The Philippine Statistics Authority also said that the country s broiler inventory had gone down to 53.27 million, the lowest in 11 years. With the Rice Tariffication Law which lifted limits on importation, PSA figures showed that the farmgate price of palay or unmilled rice had gone down to P16 per kilo.