00:00The Department of Agriculture is studying the possibility of implementing a maximum suggested retail price on pork.
00:07It is expected that the price of pork will increase in some families in Metro Manila.
00:13According to the Agriculture Spokesperson Assistant Secretary Arnel De Mesa,
00:18it is possible to implement a penalty from a possible profiteering.
00:22This is under the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act.
00:26The official explained that the basis of the Farmgate and Retail Price should not exceed P100 for the price of pork.
00:37But in some families, the price of pork has reached P200.
00:42This is too much.
00:44This is what the Agriculture Secretary Francisco Chulo Nel Jr. assured.
00:48They are trying their best to increase the price of pork.
00:52They are trying to find out if there is profiteering.
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