Porkless summer?
March 5, 2004
Filed under Miscellaneous
It might be.
A GROUP of meat dealers in Metro Manila has threatened to cut off as much as 77 percent of the pork supply in Metro Manila by calling a three-day farm boycott starting FridayÉ
According to The Manila Times, “the meat dealers warned that the boycott would further push up the retail prices of pork from the present P150 a kilo to a new historic high of P180 a kilo.”
The reason? Hog dealers are accusing hog raisers of arbitrarily raising farmgate prices and creating artificial shortage.
The hog raisers, for their part, were blaming the high prices of animal feeds for the increase in pork prices. Prices of corn, a key ingredient in animal feeds, went up to P11 to 12 a kilo this year from P6 to P8 a kilo in the previous years. [The Manila Times]
The prices of beef have been going up as well since January. Beef brisket, selling at around PhP 245.00/kilo in December, now costs around PhP 285.00/kilo.
All of that on top of the bird flu scare which have been making a lot of Filipinos shy away from chicken.
ItÕs probably going to be a seafood summer for my family.
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Order now!
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