Relaxed payment conditions for ASF-hit hog raisers seen
Photo by MA Albert Estoya. This, after the PCIC Board of Directors approved the proposal of its parent agency, the Department of Agriculture (DA), to relax its conditions on the payment for hog raisers’ losses as well as cover future hog raising activities. The DA has proposed that PCIC pay the losses resulting from government-ordered culling or slaughter of insured hogs and raise the payable amount up to 100 percent of the insurance cover or the total sum insured. Agriculture Secretary William Dar described this as part of the agency’s “bold policy actions” amid the persistence of...
Source: mb.com.ph