Villar stresses need to help help farmers

Senator Cynthia Villar has underscored the need to help the farmers, saying agricultural outputs such as poultry and eggs are “vital in food security, sustainability, and poverty alleviation.

She said the Philippine broiler industry is composed of 20 percent small farms and 80 percent commercial –scale arms, with 588 registered poultry farms and approximately 175 meat processors.“Our total chicken inventory is composed of native/improved chicken- 43.3 percent, broiler chicken- 34.5 percent share, and layer chicken with 22.2 percent share,” she said.The highest chicken inventory was noted in Central Luzon with 33.68 million birds, followed by CALABARZON with 27.

Central Luzon reported the highest inventory of broiler chicken with 18.48 million birds, while CALABARZON had the highest layer chicken stocks with 16.35 million birds.

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