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San Miguel Pure Foods opens Batangas grains terminal

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | November 14, 2013 - 12:00am

The food processing arm of diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) has started operations of its P3-billion grain terminal in Batangas.

Business

Importers seek lower tariff on chicken, pork

By Rocel Felix | May 21, 2004 - 12:00am

Food importers are asking the Department of Agriculture (DA) to reduce tariffs on chicken and pork. The Agriculture and Food Suppliers Association (AFSA) said the DA should consider further reducing the tariffs...

Business

More foreign buyers eye RP chicken

By Rocel Felix | February 11, 2004 - 12:00am

Local broiler producers are up and about as other Asian countries look to the Philippines to supply their chicken requirements after the bird flu outbreak resulted in a shortage of the product.

Business

Broiler integrators seek recall of order allowing low-tariff chicken imports

By Rocel Felix | January 20, 2004 - 12:00am

The Philippine Association of Broiler Integrators (PABI) is urging Malacañang to reconsider its earlier decision to allow the low-tariff importation of chicken as a short-term solution to the problem of chicken...

Business

Integrators ask DA to include hatching eggs, live poultry in import ban

By Rocel Felix | January 19, 2004 - 12:00am

Local poultry integrators have asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) to widen the coverage of the ban on imported chicken to include hatching eggs, live poultry, hogs and their products to ensure the avian influenza...

Business

Asia-wide ban on chicken imports urged

By Rocel Felix | January 17, 2004 - 12:00am

The broiler industry is urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to impose an Asia-wide ban on the importation of chicken to prevent an outbreak of the highly-contagious bird flu or avian influenza. "A...

Business

Overhaul of price coordinating body proposed

By Marianne V. Go | January 9, 2004 - 12:00am

Industrialist and consumer advocate Raul T. Concepcion proposed yesterday an overhaul of the National Price Coordinating Council (NPCC) with the Trade and Industry and Agriculture Secretaries jointly chairing the...

Business