Despite weak consumer demand due to high food prices, are you aware that a hotdog war is heating up among five of the country’s leading meat processors with Purefoods Hormel’s market share slowly being taken up by smaller players?
Did you know that almost all bird flu outbreaks in Southeast Asia can be traced to ducks that fed near rice paddies that has just been harvested?
While the Philippines is still struggling to make its first commercial pork export shipment to Singapore, are you aware that Thailand, due to joint venture arrangement with foreigners, is now exporting tons of pork products to Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand?
Find out more about these topics and other interesting subjects in the latest issue of Livestock and Meat Business (LaMB) Philippine Magazine, which is now off the press and available for only P89 per copy (pick up, Quezon City price).
LaMB is a specialized agribusiness magazine published by Farm Media Development Enterprises, a private outfit of Fermin Diaz, a director of the Philippine Agricultural Journalists (PAJ) Inc.
The magazine comes out every other month.
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