Philippines: Chicken producers call for importation, smuggling halt amid supply glut

Published 2023년 5월 17일

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Local chicken meat and egg producers in the Philippines are urging the Department of Agriculture to reduce imports and combat smuggling due to a surplus in supply. The United Broiler Raisers Association has pointed out that the country has enough chicken to last for 101 days, attributing the oversupply to both legal imports and smuggling of frozen chicken parts. High levels of imported chicken meat and slowed local demand due to inflation are leading to lower sales, which retailers are trying to offset by increasing prices. An excess of eggs is also expected with broiler raisers shifting to egg production due to competitive pressures from unregulated chicken imports.

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MONTALBAN, Rizal – Local producers of chicken meat and eggs are appealing to the Department of Agriculture (DA) to take immediate steps to curb the importation and outright smuggling of both commodities due to a prevailing supply glut. In an interview on Wednesday, Gregorio San Diego, chairman of the United Broiler Raisers Association (UBRA), said the seemingly unchecked entry of frozen chicken parts into the local market, either by legal importation or technical smuggling, is hurting domestic growers. San Diego disclosed that UBRA officials on Tuesday met with DA Senior Undersecretary Ding Panganiban to present figures indicating that the country currently has a chicken supply surplus equivalent to about 101 days. “We (broiler raisers) understand the need to import during shortages, but that is not the case today, there is no need,” he said. San Diego added that on top of the widespread availability of cheap imported chicken meat, which may have been on ice for months already, ...

Source: Pna