Published April 27, 2021, 4:55 PM
Senator Cynthia A. Villar on Tuesday, April 27, sought a Senate-Malacañang compromise on a controversial presidential order increasing a minimum access value (MAV) of and reducing tariff rates on pork imports.
Senator Cynthia Villar during the hybrid hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on the government’s decision to open up the importation of pork amid the impacts of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Senate of the Philippines)
‘’We shall meet halfway. We shall find a common ground that is not tilted on one side. We do it without sacrificing our farmers,’’ Villar, chairwoman of the Senate agriculture and food committee, said during a hybrid hearing by the Senate Committee of the Whole on high prices of pork brought about by African swine fever (ASF) that hit the Luzon swine industry.