PH poultry losing P179M daily
MANILA – The poultry industry is losing P179 million in daily foregone revenues due to the avian influenza outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga and the ban of shipping poultry and poultry products from Luzon, a farmers group said Wednesday. “P179 million per day,
poultry,” Rosendo So, Mga chairman of the buong
Samahang (SINAG), said on the sidelines Industriya ng Agrikultura of a press conference in Quezon City.
The i ndustry has l ost P895 million since t he outbreak was officially revealed late last week.
The Department of Agriculture ( DA) on Friday reported an outbreak of the avian influenza type A subtype H5 in a poultry farm in Barangay San Agustin in San Luis, Pampanga.
The DA ordered the Bureau of Animal Industry to cull all farm birds within a 1-kilometer quarantine zone.
Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol also banned all shipments of poultry and poultry products outside from Luzon to other parts of the country.
So argued that poultry farmers outside the 7-km radius should be able to freely move their products and cater to the markets in the Visayas and Mindanao. They need to generate revenue, he said. “’ San Luis naman,
outbreak. Yung sa kasi
1-kilometer culling, doon lang ang Ginawa
another 7 kilometers na ‘yung quarantine. Dapat outside doon, tapos na
magbenta,” he said. “nangyayari, dapat pwede
Mindanao. Kasi ang hindi
Visayas pwedeng dalhin sa
Mindanao, Dapat pwedeng dalhin sa
( quarantine) area at kasi malayo naman source,” he added. sa ‘ yung
Also, the United Broilers Raisers Association (UBRA) said the government should allow poultry and poultry products to be shipped outside of Luzon.
“all the poultry products outside that zone
Dapat should be free to move,” UBRA president Elias Jose Inciong said. ( News)
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