CEBU CITY, Philippines – A group of pork producers in the Philippines has urged the national government to take a second look at some of the measures that they introduced in managing the African Swine Fever (ASF) here. Otherwise, the country's hog industry may be at peril. The Pork Producers Federation of the Phils, Inc. (ProPork) called the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to reconsider culling as one of the methods in curbing the spread of ASF. In a statement, Rolando Tambago, president of ProPork, said they lost at least 5 million pigs not due to the infection itself but to BAI's protocols, particularly the 'indiscriminate culling of healthy pigs,' leading them to question their effectiveness in combatting the deadly swine disease.

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