THE Philippines' meat imports from January to October amounted to 1.19 million metric tons (MMT), 16.8 percent higher than the 1.01 million metric tons (MT) recorded in the same period last year, the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Bureau of Animal Industry said.
The surge was driven by pork at 598,276 MT or 50.24 percent of total shipments. This was also bigger than 2023's 504,308-MT record. Chicken imports, meanwhile, totaled 389,952 MT or 32.7 percent of the total. This was up by 8.55 percent from the comparable period's 359,230 MT.
