FTI sets auction of imported pork
MANILA, Philippines - The government-run Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) is still disposing part of the 5,000 kilos of pork it had imported late last year, even as the Department of Agriculture has authorized it to import an additional 5,000 kilos this year supposedly due to a pork shortage.
The FTI has been inviting bidders to participate in the auction of imported frozen pork, specifically for ham leg bone-in, skin-on amounting to 165 metric tons, and for ham leg, boneless and skinless amounting to 13 metric tons.
The last day for the submission of bids was yesterday.
The FTI has set a bid price of no less than P110 per kilo for bone-in, skin-on and P150 per kilo for boneless and skinless.
The sale, according to the FTI, would be on a “per carton, as is, where is; no selection and no segregation” basis.
According to Francisco Buencamino, executive director of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (PAMPI), there are still some leftover pork from the 5,000 kilos the FTI had imported.
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