An economist-lawmaker has filed two bills supporting the livestock and crops sector and directing tariff revenues towards domestic sector support programs.
AN economist-lawmaker has filed two bills supporting the livestock and crops sector and directing tariff revenues towards domestic sector support programs.
Salceda has filed the Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Development Act, and the Universal Agricultural Tariff Allocation Towards Domestic Competitiveness Act, which will allocate tariff revenues from agricultural products towards development programs for domestic agriculture. The features of the LPD Development Act include the rationalization of LPD support agencies into two agencies: a) Philippine Livestock and Poultry Authority and b) Bureau of Animal Safety and Regulations.
The measure also mandates the allocation of tariff revenues for corn productivity improvement under the Corn Competitiveness Enhancement Fund amounting to P2 billion. “Among children under five years of age, 28.8 percent or 3.2 million children are stunted, and protein and calcium are critical in that outcome,” he said.ACEF amendments
“But, in a more long-term and structural view, we have always seen agricultural development as a matter of protecting the domestic sector from world trade rather than nurturing it enough to be competitive with the rest of the world,” he added.
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