PHILIPPINE PIG FARMERS URGED TO PRODUCE MANUFACTURING GRADE MEAT.

AsiaPulse News, March, 2003

CEBU CITY, March 19 Asia Pulse - The Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc.'s (Pampi) is urging the Visayas and Mindnao hog raisers to produce manufacturing-grade meat.

During Pampi's 14th Anniversary and Induction Ceremonies at Shangri-La's Mactan Island Resort, Pampi executive director Francisco Buencamino said Pampi, a non-stock, non-profit organization founded in March 1990 to serve as the processe meat industry's support in matters affecting its growth and development, is again reaching out to the meat suppliers to produce manufacturing-grade meat needed for processed foods.

Buencamio explained that due to the inability of the local hog raisers to generate manufacturing-grade meat, meat processors are forced to import meat from outside the...