The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has issued a temporary ban on the import of domestic and wild birds and their products from the US following an avian virus outbreak in South Carolina.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered all government offices to implement measures to stop the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in the country, his spokesman Salvador Panelo said on October 24.
After setting record-high imports this year, the Philippines plans to buy less rice from foreign markets next year amid excessive supply coupled with improvement in local production.
Typhoon Mangkhut cost the Philippines a total of 250,730 tonnes of paddy rice after it hit across the nation’s northern provinces over the weekend, according to initial official estimates. The figure exceeded a previous forecast by 60 percent.
The Philippine government objects China's naming of a number of undersea features in the Benham Rise, which the UN designated as within the Philippines’ jurisdiction, according to AFP.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture has allowed local businesses to import beef from Argentina, according to the Argentine Embassy in Manila on February 2.
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