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Saturday, August 06, 2005
Unfair competition hits poultry industry: group
CAGAYAN DE ORO - Unfair competition, and not smuggling, is causing the decline of the Northern Mindanao poultry industry, according to Roger Na-varro, Northern Minda-nao Poultry Industry Association vice president.
During the City Council’s regular session last week, he said the legal importation of poultry products by two Luzon-based foreign-owned poultry companies is saturating the local markets and creating unfair competition abroad.
Navarro was among those invited by the City Council to shed light on the reported smuggling of poultry products in the region.
The two companies, he said, re-process their imported chicken parts from the United States and sell them to the Japanese market using the Philippine label.
“This is why we find it hard to compete with these companies, especially since they are tax- and duty-free,” Navarro said.
This has resulted in the local poultry industry cutting production by around one million chickens in the last few months, he said.
He said the local poultry raisers had already brought the matter to the House of Representatives and the agriculture department to no avail.
The group is demanding that the production of the two foreign-owned poultry companies be stopped “to salvage the local poultry industry.” (Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro/Sunnex)
(August 6, 2005 issue)
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