00:00The pork vendors are still waiting for the effect of the African Swine Fever on their earnings.
00:06And live from Valenzuela, we have the first news, Bea Pinla. Bea.
00:15Ivan, the price of pork is already low. The sales are still low.
00:20That's what some vendors here in Valenzuela City are saying.
00:23But now that there's an ASF vaccination,
00:26they believe that the pork vendors will gain confidence again.
00:34From the pork market to the market,
00:36the effect of the African Swine Fever in the country is severe.
00:41Valenzuela is one of the places in Metro Manila
00:44where ASF inspection sites were built to stop the spread of the disease.
00:50Some pork vendors are coming to the Karuhatan Market
00:54because their sales are still low.
00:56The sales are really low.
00:59The price is also decreasing.
01:01Of course, it has a big effect on us.
01:03It's called survival.
01:05As long as you can afford the daily expenses.
01:09They thought it was sick.
01:11It's easy to buy.
01:13It's cheap. Even if the pork is cheap,
01:15a lot of people will buy it.
01:17But it doesn't hurt if it comes from the market.
01:19They reduced the price of pork to P20.
01:24Now, the price of ribs is P275 to P280 per kilo.
01:30Pork is P350 to P370.
01:34Pork chop, kasim, and pigue are P320 per kilo.
01:40Pata and mascara are P270 to P280.
01:45It's good news for those who started distributing vaccines against ASF.
01:51According to the Department of Agriculture,
01:53controlled ASF vaccination will spread not only in Luzon,
01:58but also in Visayas and Mindanao.
02:00Pork vendors believe that
02:02the consumers will have more confidence
02:06in the pork being sold in the market
02:09because of ASF vaccination in the country.
02:13But what is the effect of rollout of ASF vaccine
02:17on the price of pork in the market?
02:20It depends on the figure.
02:22There's a tendency for the price to go up.
02:24It depends on the figure.
02:26They control the price.
02:28If it goes up, we will also go up.
02:37Ivan, according to some of the vendors we talked to,
02:40there's a high possibility
02:42that the price of pork will go up again
02:44because of the ASF vaccination program.
02:48This is also a way for them to recover
02:50from a few months of stagnation in sales.
02:53That's the first news from Valenzuela City,
02:56Bea Pinlac for GMA Integrated News.
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