March 9, 2021 | 7:34 pm
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A FUND supported by import tariffs has been proposed to improve the competitiveness of the hog industry, Senator Cynthia A. Villar said.
Ms. Villar, who chairs the chamber’s committee on agriculture and food, said during a hearing that such a fund is modeled on the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), which gets P10 billion a year from tariffs charged on liberalized rice imports. RCEF funds initiatives like farm mechanization, seed distribution, the spread of planting know-how, and crop insurance.
“I will do something like the RCEF (which) we can… allocate to uses which the hog sector thinks are important,” Ms. Villar said.