Published April 7, 2021, 11:52 AM The Philippine government has tapped San Miguel Corporation (SMC) for its new packaging solution that will prolong the shelf life of local milk. SMC’s packaging unit, San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp. (SMYPC), recently signed an agreement with the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA). Under the agreement, SMYPC will be tapped to pack an initial four million cans of sterilized carabao’s milk for distributions in Regions 1 to 3 and parts of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). SMYPC will particularly act as a third-party toll packer utilizing its new retort process to package some 40,000 liters of carabao milk supplied by local farmer’s cooperatives in Nueva Ecija.