The establishment of quarantine facilities at all major ports of entry in the country should be the first step in waging President Marcos’s all-out war
Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Livestock Deogracias Victor Savellano against agricultural smuggling, stakeholders in the private and public sectors alike said on Sunday.
“This will enable the government to really screen what is coming in . We need them in every major port of entry, not just in one or two, in order to deal a telling blow on smuggling,” he said in a mixture of Filipino and English. For his part, Jose Elias Inciong, chairman of the United Broiler and Raisers’ Association , welcomed the importance of the Marcos Administration’s renewed emphasis on curbing agricultural smuggling, saying the illegal importation of agricultural goods has been suffocating local food producers for years.
Inciong said that aside from potentially putting a stop to smuggling, the envisioned CEFA inspection cites will also help keep out animal and plant diseases.
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