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Losses from African swine fever now at P135 billion Louise Maureen Simeon
No respite seen from rising pork prices
MANILA, Philippines The Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) is claiming that the deadly African swine fever (ASF) has already wiped out P135 billion from the livestock industry as the disease continues to spread in the country.
The Philippine hog industry is worth around P248 billion based on official data from the government but Sinag said the industry is actually worth around P300 billion.
“The total hog industry is at 13 million heads. And so far, we have lost 5.8 million heads already,” Sinag chairman Rosendo So said.
THE Philippines will be joining the 13
th Global Forum on Migration and Development, which will tackle new technologies and upskilling of migrant workers, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Y. Arriola and Chief of Presidential Protocol and Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs Robert E.A. Borje will each chair roundtable discussions on leveraging new technology to empower migrants and upskilling migrants to make them more competitive, respectively.
The virtual summit, hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be held between Jan. 18 and 26 and will center on topics related to the future of human mobility.
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DILG gathers 500K signatures in support of surgical amendments to Constitution By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA News
Published January 13, 2021 7:33pm The administration has gathered over 500,000 signatures in support of the surgical amendments to the Philippine Constitution, including relaxing economic provisions, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Wednesday. According to DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, a total of 555,610 signatures were gathered during roadshows conducted prior to the lockdowns imposed in March 2020 to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) estimates the country s population at 109.947 million as of 2020. On the basis of these public roadshows that we have done in majority of the provinces in the country, we were able to secure more than half a million signatures from Filipinos nationwide. This was done in a very transparent manner an