Poe seeks rejection of DA proposal to lower pork, rice tarif

Poe seeks rejection of DA proposal to lower pork, rice tariff


Senator Grace Poe
(Office of Sen. Grace Poe / MANILA BULLETIN)
She maintained that the proposal of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to ease importation for a year would only further discourage local production.
“African swine fever (ASF) wiped out pig farms in most of Luzon with big conglomerates now stepping back. How will local production recover if we flood the market with imports without the necessary assurance that pork and pork products that are sold in the market are free of the disease?” Poe said in a statement on Wednesday, March 3.
She said the DA was “inept” for handling of ASF outbreak, and “for not hearing out its constituents whom it should be advocating for.” “It was the DA that petitioned the Tariff Commission (TC) to lower tariffs on pork and rice despite the objections and the strong arguments against it from hog raisers and rice farmers. After failing to hear them out, the DA didn’t even have the research to support the lowering of tariffs or explain its proposal during the hearings,” Poe said.

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