Agri department offers cash incentives to pork, chicken vendors affected by price cap
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 8) The Department of Agriculture is offering loans to market vendors and financial aid to hog transporters severely affected by the two-month price cap on pork and chicken products in Metro Manila, Secretary William Dar said on Monday.
The price ceiling of ₱270 per kilo for kasim and pigue, ₱300 per kilo for liempo, and ₱160 per kilogram for dressed chicken sold in Metro Manila takes effect starting today.
The agriculture chief said they will give zero interest loans that market vendors can use as capital. The same benefits are extended to backyard hog raisers, he added.
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Baguio City, a hot topic. Mayor Magalong, aka contact tracing “czar,” tarred, tainted by the city’s scandal of the season, at party where pictures were shot, advertently or inadvertently, of the merrymakers making merry sans masks. “Sapagka’t kami ay tao lamang,” he apologized immediately and earned praises for his humility, though the incident reaped regrets that it shouldn’t have happened at all.
Baguio City, from hot to cool. Christmas having long gone and the city no longer scented by the pine trees of a childhood memory, it’s still a good place to be for its spring-like climate. Starting low at 10 to 12C in the days prior to Sunday’s 9.24C (at 5 a.m.), the coolest during the season of the
CALOOCAN CITY, Jan. 31 (PIA) Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar pointed out over the weekend that the projects under the Build, Build, Build program of the Duterte administration would continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a televised report over the weekend, Villar stressed that each infrastructure project contributes a lot to the quick recovery of the economy, in providing jobs, and in the development of rural areas. Gusto naming ipakita na napakalaki ng tulong ng Build, Build, Build [program] sa ating ekonomiya, dahil nagbibigay ng trabaho at nagkakaroon din ng development sa ating mga provincial areas,” he said.
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The San Miguel Corporation (SMC) had earlier announced that it will start collecting toll on the newly opened elevated expressway after February 1, more than a month after keeping it toll free.
“Toll collection will only be allowed after the TRB gives its approval. The toll matrix shall be published once approval is made,” he said.
Based on the proposed toll rates submitted by the San Miguel Holdings Corp., the operator of Skyway Stage 3, toll rates range from P110 to P274.
Motorists who will use the 18.8-kilometer stretch of the expressway or from Makati to Quezon City would pay P274 toll.
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