D.A. Stepping Up Recovery Measures For Hog Industry In Line With PGMA’s SONA Commitments
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is stepping up the implementation of several measures for the hog industry that include feed subsidies and a stock dispersal program, to help the sector recover from a growth slump in the first semester, in step with President Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) goal to energize the farm sector and ensure food sufficiency.
“We have a stock dispersal program that is being implemented right now, but not yet fully, so we are going to do it within the next month,” Yap said. “We also have a feed subsidy program to grow hogs by at least an additional to kilos to 15 kilos to increase output from the national average of only 77 kilograms.”
Improving the country’s rice self-sufficiency level and bringing food on the table of every Filipino family have been President Arroyo’s commitments since her first SONA in 2001. Through the DA, President Arroyo has pumped greater public investments into the various farm sub sectors in pursuit of her SONA commitments to create more jobs and livelihood opportunities in the countryside and bring food on the table of every Filipino family.
