Tag: chicken

Pres. Duterte studying recommendation to impose price freeze on pork, chicken, says Sen. Go

https://youtu.be/jwC6ulgzvfw     (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is now mulling the issuance of a price freeze for pork and chicken because of the unexplained rise in the prices of these meat products, according to Senator Christopher “Bong” Go. The senator who is the President’s former aide said that he had already relayed to President Duterte the public’s complaints about the high prices of pork and chicken, and even of fish and vegetables. Go […]

Dutch cull 190,000 chickens after bird flu outbreaks

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch authorities have culled some 190,000 chickens after a highly-contagious strain of bird flu broke out at at least two poultry farms, the agriculture ministry said Sunday. Health workers slaughtered around 100,000 hens at a poultry farm at Hekendorp outside Gouda while 90,000 chicks were culled at Witmarsum, in northern Friesland. In both cases “a highly-contagious strain of the H5 variant” was suspected, the ministry said in a statement. There […]

DA asks public to make sure meat products they buy have NMIS approval as ban on Brazil poultry imposed

DA issues guidelines as precautionary measure against COVID-19   (Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture has imposed a “temporary ban” on the importation of poultry meat from Brazil after several reports that said that SARS-COV-2 was detected on chicken wings imported from that country. It also asked all meat processing plants in the country and slaughterhouses to make sure that the meat products they process are free from COVID-19, and that all workers involved […]

DA assures local poultry raisers of support; to set up facilities to reduce chicken meat imports by next year

  (Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture bared plans to set up modern facilities for chicken meat processing that would reduce chicken meat exports by next year. The DA said this to assure the country’s poultry raisers that it is looking into their concerns amid reported oversupply of chicken meat imports. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that there is also no move to limit local poultry production. He said that the DA is even […]

Magnolia offers fresh chicken delivery for communities affected by quarantine

  In this time of lockdowns and self-quarantine, fresh chicken delivered in your villages or near your homes is the ideal. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, a popular fresh chicken brand is starting to do just that. Magnolia Chicken announced that it has started to roll out its “Bayanihan Selling activity to bring chicken supply closer to the consumers” during the enhanced community quarantine. It partnered with netizens who are leaders in their communities […]