Agriculture and Aquaculture Industry

[kiretoce]

Link to Thread 1 in the Archives.

[jpdm]

The Agriculture Dept and the Bureau of Customs should work hard to rid itself of protectors of smugglers and unscrupulous importers ought to destroy our economy.

These government officials and employees in cahoots with smugglers and importers should be punished as economic saboteurs!

[jpdm]

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Philippines to host ASEAN agricultural R&D meeting

THE PHILIPPINES is set to host an international meeting on agricultural research and development this week, a press release from the Agriculture department’s Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) said.

The Association of South East Nations’ (ASEAN) Technical Working Group on Agricultural Research and Development (ATWGARD) will hold its seventh meeting in the country from May 16 to 18 at the Century Park Hotel in Malate, Manila.

Delegates from the ASEAN member states will present during the event their country’s status on agricultural research and development (R&D) and also their recommendations for new initiatives for the ASEAN cooperation in agricultural R&D.

According to the BAR, the ATWGARD, established in 2003, is a collaborative effort among ASEAN member states which aims to help these nations exchange knowledge on agriculture R&D and facilitate collaborative activities and research expertise in Southeast Asia.

The Philippines was nominated as chair of the technical working group for the years 2011 to 2013, with Singapore as vice-chair during its previous meeting last September in Indonesia. The country was also voted to be the host of the seventh meeting.[QUOTE]
http://www.bworldonline.com/content....eting&id=51726

[CarltonHill]

One of the main problems why we continue to lag behind our neighbours in terms of Agriculture is "smuggling" which's mainly products of China.... Many of our local farmers are almost zero profit or sometimes fall into bankruptcy because smuggled China veggies are cheaper than theirs...and sad to know that Filipino consumers tends to choose and buy what is cheaper....

I hope that our government will be the one to buy fruits and veggies of our local farmers if they could not sell it to a marketplace.... (like what Japan is doing)...

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by CarltonHill

One of the main problems why we continue to lag behind our neighbours in terms of Agriculture is "smuggling" which's mainly products of China.... Many of our local farmers are almost zero profit or sometimes fall into bankruptcy because smuggled China veggies are cheaper than theirs...and sad to know that Filipino consumers tends to choose and buy what is cheaper....

I hope that our government will be the one to buy fruits and veggies of our local farmers if they could not sell it to a marketplace.... (like what Japan is doing)...

Pwede ba yang mga vegetables na yan na ewang mabulok sa pier tulad ng ginawa nila sa bananas natin dun sa pier nila? Tit for tat, possible?

[jpdm]

Originally Posted by CarltonHill

One of the main problems why we continue to lag behind our neighbours in terms of Agriculture is "smuggling" which's mainly products of China.... Many of our local farmers are almost zero profit or sometimes fall into bankruptcy because smuggled China veggies are cheaper than theirs...and sad to know that Filipino consumers tends to choose and buy what is cheaper....

I hope that our government will be the one to buy fruits and veggies of our local farmers if they could not sell it to a marketplace.... (like what Japan is doing)...

Well said.

Those agri-products from China and even from Taiwan, India and US are all dumped.

Pnoy government should stop this economic sabotage being done to the Philippines.

[hakz2007]

GUIMARAS-THE SWEETEST MANGO CAN BE FOUND
by Liza Franco Abuloc

[CarltonHill]

Philippines started exporting 50MT of Guimaras mangoes to Australia earlier this year...

[jpdm]

Just how lame and powerless this government when it comes smuggling!

Massive economic sabotage!

P15B OF SMUGGLED PORK MEAT BARED


Posted May 21st, 2012
by Christine F. Herrera & filed under Feature.


87 million kilos flooded wet markets in 2011

THE hog raisers on Sunday demanded that President Benigno Aquino III order a crackdown on smuggling syndicates after some 87 million kilograms of pork worth P14.79 billion entered the country and flooded the wet markets last year.

They made their demand even as the meat importers sought the President’s intervention to stop the increase in the reference prices of pork and chicken.

The importers turned to President Aquino after they got rebuffed by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, who stood his ground and imposed increases in the reference prices of pork and chicken. They dared the hog growers to name the smugglers.

Abono chairman and Swine Development Council director Rosendo So demanded that the Agriculture Department and the Bureau of Customs purge the list of importers after the council found that only 14 percent or 15.03 million of the 102.14 million kilos of offal that came into the country last year were legitimate importation.

“The rest of the 86 percent or 87 million kilos of purportedly offal that flooded the wet markets in 2011 magically turned into prime cuts of pork and were passed off as fresh meat,” So said.

“This outright smuggling has resulted in the killing of 20 percent of the backyard industry.”

Jesus Cham, president of the Meat Importers and Traders Association Inc., Felix Tiukinhoy Jr., president of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc., and Anthony Dizon, president of the Cold Chain Association of the Philippines, Inc., jointly wrote the President to protest the increase in the reference prices from 80 cents to $2.97 per kilo for swine and from 50 cents to $1.23 per kilo for chicken.

“The upward increases in the reference values of imported pork and poultry will indiscriminately penalize legal business and [allow] smugglers to continue their illegal trade,” the meat importers said.

So said that of the 142 accredited meat importers, only 29 were meat processors and two were meat integrators allowed to import offal.

“The 111 traders that illegally brought in the bulk of the total 102.14 million kilograms of offal did not even have the facility to process offal.

So said the traders declared their imports as offal and not prime cuts to avoid paying the right tariff.

Offal is taxed only 5 percent, while prime cuts are levied 40 percent.

Cham, Tiukinhoy and Dizon say their frozen meat imports are now being subjected to 100-percent inspection following the hog growers’ complaint, but the growers have not proven that meat is being smuggled in.

Still, So has urged President Aquino to order a crackdown on smugglers that he claims are composed of corrupt Customs and Agriculture staff and dishonest importers.

“We call on President Aquino to declare an all-out war against smugglers not only to protect the local industry but to safeguard the public from possible health problems,” he said.

“We believe a top-to-bottom revamp is in order because the smuggling syndicate could not have done this illegal act without the connivance of [Customs and Agriculture] officials.”

So also took exception to Customs Commissioner Rufino Biazon’s claim that his men did not have the expertise to classify meat.

“We don’t believe that [Customs] personnel don’t have the expertise to undertake a thorough inspection of imported meat when they have been doing it for many years already,” he said.

“We do believe that experience can teach them how to effectively deal with the technical smuggling, [false] declaration or undervaluation of imported meat if they really want to.” With Alena Mae S. Flores

(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/May/21)

http://news.manilastandardtoday.com/?p=24233

Putong amang mga importers/smugglers na mga yan!!

[jpdm]

Good news naman.

Recto pitches for farmers


Posted May 21st, 2012
by Joel E. Zurbano & filed under Nation.


SENATOR Ralph Recto urged the government to invest in agriculture that would benefit all sectors, such as hog-livestock raisers, fruits and vegetable farmers, fishermen and other producers and not just for rice sufficiency.

“The goal of achieving food security should not be pegged alone on attaining rice sufficiency. There are other sectors of agriculture that are equally important in delivering adequate food supply to our people,” Recto said, urging the Department of Agriculture to rethink its plan to invest in more post-harvest facilities and irrigation systems to attain sufficiency in rice by 2013.

“While the rice sector will post surpluses next year, let’s not forget the livestock sector,” Recto said. “More neutral investments would benefit everyone.”

A more “neutral investment,” Recto explained, means building additional farm-to-market roads that would benefit the sub-sectors as well as food haulers who will bring in their products to the nearest market.

“The high prices of livestock and other fresh produce is largely blamed on lack of logistics like roads and transport, that it has become cheaper to import than to haul fresh produce from Mindanao to Metro Manila,” he said.

Meanwhile, former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri also asked the government to help coconut farmers diversify and build viable cooperatives.

“Diversification is key to the economic survival of small growers facing severe hardship, with the farm-gate price of copra now down to as low as P15 per kilo from P40 a year ago,” said Zubiri.

Zubiri urged the state-run Philippine Coconut Authority to help planters expand their sources of farm income via intercropping.

(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/May/21)

http://news.manilastandardtoday.com/?p=24221

[Nabartek]

I think what the government should do about meat smuggling is penalize/punish those businessmen who buy from smugglers. It's much easier that way that trying to look for smugglers na ang hirap hanapin plus for sure na may kakuntsaba rin na mga opisyales yan.

[Greenfield]

Originally Posted by jpdm

Just how lame and powerless this government when it comes smuggling!

Massive economic sabotage!


http://news.manilastandardtoday.com/?p=24233

Putong amang mga importers/smugglers na mga yan!!

Agree. This is the reason why this country is poor. Smuggling is rampant and the government is not doing anything to stop it.

Originally Posted by Nabartek

I think what the government should do about meat smuggling is penalize/punish those businessmen who buy from smugglers. It's much easier that way that trying to look for smugglers na ang hirap hanapin plus for sure na may kakuntsaba rin na mga opisyales yan.

Good suggestion sir. But it should be both, from the port of entry down to the consumer market itself.

[april boy]

At least this issue is now being discussed and solve by both the government and the private sector.

[CarltonHill]

Sana mas bigatan pa ang parusa sa mga nasasangkot sa smuggling....

sana ganito kabigat: (o kung may mas bibigat pa)

Filipino (pasimuno, leader ng smuggling)
1st offense- PhP25Million bail or 20years jail-time
2nd offense- life imprisonment

Checkwa or other Foreigners (na leader ng smuggling)
1st and last offense- USD1Million bail + 3years in jail then deportation after.

para sa mga kanang kamay na Filipino
1st offense- PhP10Million bail or 10years jail-time
2nd offense- life imprisonment

para sa mga kanang kamay na Foreigner
1st and last offense- USD500,000 + 1year in jail then deportation after.

para sa iba pang responsible
1st offense- USD50,000 bail or 5years jail-time
2nd offense- 30years jail-time

....

[first knight]

Originally Posted by Greenfield

Agree. This is the reason why this country is poor. Smuggling is rampant and the government is not doing anything to stop it.



Good suggestion sir. But it should be both, from the port of entry down to the consumer market itself.

I concur.

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by april boy

At least this issue is now being discussed and solve by both the government and the private sector.

Dahil nagagalit na ang mga Hog and Poultry raisers! Kung hindi sinabihang mag-launch ng pork at poultry holiday, walang kikilos, ano po? Matagal na palang binigya ng tip ang gobiyerno, hindi lang ginawan ng aksiyon! Jeeezzzzz

[Greenfield]

Originally Posted by CarltonHill

Sana mas bigatan pa ang parusa sa mga nasasangkot sa smuggling....

sana ganito kabigat: (o kung may mas bibigat pa)

Filipino (pasimuno, leader ng smuggling)
1st offense- PhP25Million bail or 20years jail-time
2nd offense- life imprisonment

Checkwa or other Foreigners (na leader ng smuggling)
1st and last offense- USD1Million bail + 3years in jail then deportation after.

para sa mga kanang kamay na Filipino
1st offense- PhP10Million bail or 10years jail-time
2nd offense- life imprisonment

para sa mga kanang kamay na Foreigner
1st and last offense- USD500,000 + 1year in jail then deportation after.

para sa iba pang responsible
1st offense- USD50,000 bail or 5years jail-time
2nd offense- 30years jail-time

....

Grabe naman ang parusa, pero I agree.

[april boy]

The government should effectively stop technical and outright smuggling of agricultural products to our country.

[jpdm]

Originally Posted by april boy

The government should effectively stop technical and outright smuggling of agricultural products to our country.

This can be done if there will be a serious clean up in the BOC and Agriculture Dept especially of officials and employees in cahoots with these smugglers.