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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
Introduced by Representative Ron P. Salo 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Livestock, poultry, and dairy are vital industries of the Philippine agriculture 
sector. However, the country has not been self-sufficient in livestock, poultry, and 
dairy products.  Data from the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) in 2021 indicate that 
Philippine meat imports had reached a new record-high of 1.165 million metric tons 
(MMT) and was primarily driven by higher pork imports due to the spread of the 
African Swine Fever. Chicken imports also had a considerable share of total meat 
imports in the country accounting for 28.3 percent or 130.5 million kilograms (kg), 
while beef (62.88 million kgs.), buffalo, (16 million kgs.) turkey (251,269 kgs.), lamb 
(276,265 kgs.), and duck (20,509 kgs.) accounted for the rest of the country's total 
meat purchases. 
Similarly, in 2018 the cost per kilogram of swine meat (carcass weight) was at 
Philippine Peso (PhP) 148 for backyard operators, but just PhP 112.40 for 
commercial operators. The largest cost components are feed and grower stock. 
Feed cost per kg is PhP 64 in the Philippines, which is higher than in the other 
countries (e.g., PhP 61 in Vietnam). This is lower than the cost for commercial 
operators in China (PhP 106.97) and Thailand (PhP 97.53). Cost of production are 
lower in in global export leaders such as Spain and Denmark, at PhP 86.50. 
On the other hand, the National Dairy Authority stated reported that the 
Philippines imports virtually all its dairy products since domestic production cannot 
meet the dairy requirements of the country. 
The livestock, poultry, and dairy industries in the country is clearly 
underperforming despite its importance to the food security of our country. Thus, the 
Philippine livestock, poultry and dairy industry need to be fully supported, 
modernized and competitive. 
This bill is proposed to develop, protect, and promote the livestock, poultry, 
and dairy industries in the Philippines and provide for a roadmap that will provide for 
its modernization and boost its competitiveness. This bill also provides for a 
Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Competitiveness Enhancement Fund which shall be 
used for the purpose of achieving the objective of development 
and 
competitiveness of the livestock, poultry, and dairy industries, as well as to 
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increase the income of farmers and farm workers, and to alleviate rural 
poverty through improved productivity and competitiveness. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
RON P. SALO   
   KABAYAN Party List 


 
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
Introduced by Representative Ron P. Salo 
AN ACT  
TO DEVELOP, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, AND 
DAIRY INDUSTRIES AND THEIR VALUE CHAIN, TO PROVIDE FOR A 
LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, AND DAIRY COMPETITIVENESS ENHANCEMENT 
FUND, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
TITLE I 
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS 
SECTION 1. Title. – This Act shall be known as the "Livestock, Poultry, 
and Dairy Development and Competitiveness Act of 2023". 
 SEC. 2. Declaration of Policies. – It is hereby a declared policy of the 
State to promote the development and competitiveness of the livestock, poultry, 
and dairy industries, particularly the backyard livestock, poultry, and dairy 
raisers, in order to increase the supply of meat, eggs, milk, and other 
livestock, poultry, and dairy products, 
improve 
the 
domestic 
supply 
of 
breeders, enhance the 
availability and affordability of feeds and forage, 
modernize facilities,  promote food safety and quality standards, and attain greater 
security in food, livestock, poultry, and dairy commodities.  
It is likewise the policy of the State to increase the income of farmers 
and farm workers, and to alleviate rural poverty through improved productivity 
and competitiveness, product diversification, job generation, enhanced production 
efficiency, and protection of the livestock, poultry, and dairy industries from pests and 
diseases. 
Towards this end, the State shall nurture an enabling environment and establish 
more responsive government policies and support programs to develop the whole 
value chain of the livestock, poultry, and dairy industries in the country, and raise the 
cost-effectiveness of regulations on animal disease prevention and control, 
enforcement of food safety and quality standards on their produce and processed 
products with least disruptive effects on trade and their value chains. 
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The State recognizes the vital role of the private sector as partners in the 
various facets of the livestock, poultry, and dairy industries, and the organization of 
their farmers to be more competitive and shall provide incentives and needed support 
to encourage stronger partnership and consolidation. 
 
 
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. – As used in this Act, the following terms 
and phrases shall mean as follows: 
 
a) Animal disease prevention and control refers to a function that includes 
activities on effective and efficient surveillance, early detection, transparency, and 
rapid response mechanisms to prevent and control animal diseases; 
 
b) Small hold farmer refers to a livestock or a poultry farmer raising any or 
combination of the following: quail (2,500 birds and below); native chickens 
(250 birds and below); layer chickens and ducks (250 layers and below); 
broiler (500 birds and below); rabbit (100 head and below); swine, including 
native pigs (20 head sows and below or 41 head grower-finishers and below); 
small ruminants (goat and sheep) for dairy or meat (not more than 35 does or 
ewes); large ruminants (cattle and water buffalo or carabao) for dairy or meat 
(not more than 5 cows and 5 yearlings or calves); 
 
c) Semi-commercial farm refers to a livestock or poultry farm that raises any or 
combination of the following: quail (2,501-10,000 birds); native/improved/free-
range chickens (251-5,000 birds); layer chickens and ducks (251-5,000 
layers); broiler (501-10,000 birds); rabbit (101-1,000 head); swine, including 
native pigs (21-50 head sows); small ruminants (goat and sheep) for dairy or 
meat (36-100 does or ewes); large ruminants (cattle and water buffalo or 
carabao) for dairy or meat (6-50 head cows); 
 
d) Corn refers to yellow corn which is largely utilized as animal feed in the 
country;  
 
e) Department refers to the Department of Agriculture (DA);  
 
f) Feeds refers to animal food for livestock, poultry and dairy producing animals 
which includes, but not limited to, yellow corn, forages, feed wheats, and dairy 
concentrates which provide highly nutritional diets that both maintain the 
health of the animals and increase the quality of such end products as meat, 
milk, or eggs; 
 
g) Border Inspection Facility refers to a facility wherein examiners and inspectors 
from the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), Bureau of Customs (BOC) and 
National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) conduct inspection to check the 
quality and quantity of all arriving imports of livestock, poultry, by-products 
and dairy animals, animal products, and veterinary drugs and products based 
on the submitted documents or permits of the importer; 
 
h) Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to 
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and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals which are 
raised for consumption such as cattle, carabaos, buffaloes, horses, sheep, 
goats, hogs, deer, rabbits; 
 
i) Native Animals refer to domesticated animals which contribute to food 
production found in one geographical location that have developed unique 
physical characteristics, behavior, product attributes, adapted to the local 
environment and are products of selection with no infusion of exotic 
breeds for at least five (5) generations including, but not limited to, native 
chicken, goats, pigs, ducks, cattle, and horses;  
 
j) Poultry is a collective term which refers to all domesticated avian reared in 
captivity mainly for agricultural purposes, or for the production of food or other 
by-products, as well as for final and intermediate consumption;  
 
k) Quick Response Fund (QRF) refers to a stand-by fund for immediate 
government intervention in case of any event of livestock, poultry, and 
dairy pest or epidemic incident that may be deemed to have the potential to 
reduce the livestock, poultry, or dairy population at the municipal level by at 
least two percent (2%), and for the purpose of '1ormalizing the living 
conditions of farmers or areas affected by such crisis;  
 
l) Value chain- A 'value chain' in agriculture identifies the set of actors and 
activities that bring a basic agricultural product from production in the 
field to final consumption, where at each stage, value is added to the 
product;  
 
m) Veterinary Drugs and Products refer to any substance or device, including 
biological products, applied or administered to food producing, processing 
(such as livestock and poultry), companion, aquatic, laboratory, and exotic 
animals, whether used for therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic 
purposes or for modification of physiological functions or behaviors; and  
 
n) Veterinary Drug and Product Establishment refers to any organization or 
company involved in the manufacture, importation, repacking, labeling, 
advertising and/or distribution of veterinary drugs and products. 
 
 
TITLE II 
 
ROADMAP 
 
 
SEC. 4. Philippine Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Value Chain 
Development Roadmap. – A Steering Committee, headed by the Secretary of the 
Department of Agriculture, and composed of the Undersecretary for the National 
Livestock Program, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), National Meat Inspection 
Service (NMIS), National Dairy Authority (NDA), Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), 
Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering, Agricultural Training Institute, 
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Department of Finance 
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formulation of a ten-year Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Value Chain Development 
Roadmap (the “Roadmap”) within one hundred eighty (180) days upon the effectivity 
of this Act, and which shall be updated every five years. 
 
 
The Steering Committee shall engage other concerned offices, units, 
attached agencies and bureaus within the Department of Agriculture and other 
relevant government agencies and industry stakeholders in the formulation of the 
Roadmap.  
 
 
The Roadmap shall be crafted with the active participation of the livestock, 
poultry and dairy stakeholders, and shall be the blueprint for the development of the 
livestock, poultry and dairy industries.  It shall set industry visions, time-bound goals 
and targets, and identify strategies to achieve them. The Roadmap shall serve as 
guide in the formulation of plans, programs and projects by all relevant livestock, 
poultry and dairy agencies. 
 
 
The implementation of the Roadmap shall be funded through the 
Livestock, Poultry and Dairy Competitiveness Enhancement Fund created under 
Section 7 of this Act, and shall state the priority of animals in the livestock and poultry 
value chain identified under the prevailing circumstances. 
 
 
The Roadmap shall include the following but not limited to: 
 
a) Breeder Availability and Upgrading Programs. – 
The Roadmap shall 
endeavor to increase the total population of livestock and poultry in the 
country in terms of quantity and quality through support programs for genetic 
improvement and upgrading, establishment of more semen banks, and 
natural and artificial breeding stations, stock farms with complete facilities 
compliant with animal health and welfare laws, as well as accreditation of 
breeder farms; 
 
b) Feeds Development Program. – the Roadmap shall endeavor to produce 
adequate, affordable, and sustainable supply of nutritious feed resources to 
support the requirements and productivity of livestock, poultry, and dairy. 
Priorities shall be placed on improving support for the use of corn as an 
animal feed along with production and utilization of pasture, forage crops fish 
meals and other alternative protein-rich crops that can be utilized as animal 
feeds, including, but not limited to, soybean, sorghum, oil palm, coconut, 
cottonseed, peanut, chickpea, cowpea, mungbean, and cassava; 
 
c) Native animal programs. – The Roadmap shall strengthen support for the 
propagation, processing, utilization, and development of native animals; 
 
d) Animal Health Welfare and Protection Programs. – The BAI shall take the 
lead in the implementation of prevention, control, containment, and 
eradication of animal pests and diseases by providing veterinary health 
services and general livestock, poultry, and dairy health support programs; 
 
e) Enterprise Development Programs. – The Roadmap shall promote the 
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dairy to include infrastructure projects, credit facilities, and training programs 
with technical support from the Agriculture Training Institute (ATI), Technical 
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and relevant local 
training institutes. Enterprise development programs shall be in consonance 
to the Farmers and Fisherfolk Enterprise Development Program under 
Republic Act No. 11321 or the Sagip Saka Act of 2019; 
 
f) Training and Extension Programs. – In consultation with the ATI, International 
Training Center on Pig Husbandry (ITCPH), TESDA, state universities and 
colleges (SUCs), LGUs, and other relevant institutions, the Roadmap shall 
provide support to training extension services for backyard farmers, 
cooperatives and organizations on technologies and good practice in the 
propagation, utilization, marketing, processing and distribution of livestock, 
poultry, dairy, and native animals, as well as the proper use, operation, 
maintenance and management of livestock, poultry and dairy facilities and 
equipment;  
 
g) Market Promotion Programs. – The Roadmap shall support livestock, poultry, 
and dairy auction markets, trade fairs, export initiatives, and encourage 
contract 
growing 
arrangements 
between 
farmers 
cooperatives 
or 
organizations and institutional buyers of livestock, poultry, and dairy produce; 
 
h) Research and Development (R&D) Programs. – The Roadmap shall endeavor 
to strengthen research collaboration with the DA-Bureau of Agricultural 
Research; DOST-PCAARRD, state universities and colleges (SUCs) and 
other public and private institutions research and development institutions 
(RDIs) for technical support in the areas of a) breeding and genetic 
improvement b) reproductive biotechniques, c) nutrition, feeds and feeding 
system including forage and pasture, d) conservation and improvement of 
native animals, e) vaccines, biologics and diagnostics development, food 
quality and safety assurance, f) disease control and anti-microbial resistance 
management, g) production and management decision support systems, h) 
product development and processing, and i) emerging technologies on 
breeding techniques, j) zoonosis, k) improvement and modernization of 
livestock, poultry and dairy facilities and equipment;  and l) other related 
researches to improve livestock, poultry and dairy production; 
 
i) Food Safety and Quality Assurance Programs. – The Bureau of Animal 
Industry (BAI), National Dairy Authority (NDA) and National Meat Inspection 
Services (NMIS), which have been identified as the DA food safety regulatory 
agencies in Republic Act No. 10611 or the Food Safety Act of 2013, shall 
support the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) in the enforcement and 
regulation of food safety and quality standards on livestock, poultry, and dairy 
produce and by-products; 
 
j) Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Production Networks Program. – The BAI 
shall formulate and implement livestock, poultry, and dairy cluster 
development programs for backyard raisers' cooperative organizations 
and/or federations in order to encourage economies of scale, production 
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coordination and dissemination of government interventions; 
 
k) Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Processing Programs. – The Roadmap shall 
include programs that will enhance the value-addition and value-adding 
opportunities of the processing of livestock and poultry meat, and dairy milk; 
and 
 
l) Livestock, Poultry and Dairy Infrastructure and Mechanization Development 
Programs. – The Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (BAFE), 
pursuant to its mandate under Section 24 of RA No. 10601 and in consultation 
with concerned offices, units, attached agencies and bureaus within the 
Department of Agriculture, DPWH and other relevant government agencies 
and industry stakeholders shall formulate a Livestock, Poultry and Dairy 
Infrastructure, Facilities and Mechanization Development Programs. The 
programs shall include the provision, establishment and construction of 
infrastructure and mechanization facilities for the production, handling, 
processing and marketing for livestock, poultry and dairy such as but not 
limited to  bio-secure housing, slaughterhouses, poultry dressing plant,   
waste management facilities like biogas plant and shared/common service 
facilities like machineries, equipment and irrigation  for pasture lands, and 
feed mill in strategic areas or provinces to serve the needs of raisers, 
cooperatives or organizations; and human resource development for 
livestock, poultry and dairy infrastructure and mechanization workers. These 
infrastructure facilities and the livestock, poultry and dairy production and 
processing areas shall have farm-to-market road connectivity as part of the 
Farm-to-Market Road Network Plan of the Department. 
 
 
Finally, the DA-National Corn Program shall also update its com roadmap 
within one hundred twenty (120) days from effectivity of this Act. 
 
 
TITLE III 
 
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 
 
 
SEC. 5. Creation of a Permanent Program Management and Oversight 
Office. – The Office of the Undersecretary for Livestock is hereby strengthened 
through the creation of a permanent Program Management and Oversight Office. 
The Undersecretary for Livestock shall supervise and direct the implementation of 
the Roadmap and all the programs and the agencies under it shall regularly report to 
the Secretary of Agriculture.  
 
 
The National Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Program Management Office 
(NLPDMO) is hereby established to support the Undersecretary for Livestock. The 
National Livestock Program, one of the Banner Programs of the Department of 
Agriculture, is hereby converted into the NLPDMO and shall have permanent staff 
headed by a Director. It shall serve as the secretariat and support to the Steering 
Committee and shall likewise serve as the oversight and coordinating office to all the 
programs, activities, and projects undertaken by the different livestock agencies. 
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The Steering Committee shall prepare periodic and annual assessments on 
its accomplishments in accordance with their responsibilities under this Act. Such 
reports shall be compiled and maintained by the PMO. 
 
 
The Congressional Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries 
Modernization (COCAFM) shall be furnished with such reports. It shall also conduct 
a periodic 
review of the Livestock, 
Poultry, and Dairy Competitiveness 
Enhancement Fund. 
 
 
SEC. 6.  Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Management Information 
System (LPDMIS). – The LPDMIS shall be the repository of all information 
relevant to livestock, poultry, and dairy industries. It shall endeavor to provide 
timely, accurate and responsive information related to livestock, poultry, and 
dairy (LPD) industries which shall include, but not limited to, the following data 
down to the municipal level: 
 
a) LPD supply (LPD inventory, production data, exports, and imports, among 
others), and demand data;  
 
b) Crop and non-crop animal feed inputs data (production, prices, imports, 
and exports); 
 
c) Animal feed data (inventory and prices);  
 
d) Price and price trends (include farm-gate, wholesale, and retail prices of 
LPD and corn);  
 
e) Research information and technology generated from research institutions 
involved in LPD;  
 
f) Information on pest, diseases, and epidemics to ensure food safety and 
animal health protection;  
 
g) International, national, regional, and provincial market forecast;  
 
h) Support extension providers' relevant information; and  
 
i) Data relating to programs of the BAI, PCC, NDA and NMIS (importation of 
breeds, artificial insemination, natural breeding, buy-back programs, 
among other information). 
 
 
The LPDMIS shall be linked to the BAI, PCC, NDA and PSA database and website 
for easy access of users to data on livestock, poultry, and dairy information. It shall 
be implemented within one hundred twenty (120) days from effectivity of this Act. 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
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TITLE IV 
 
FUND 
 
 
 
SEC. 7. Creation of the livestock, Poultry and Dairy, Competitiveness 
Enhancement Funds. – There is hereby created a Livestock, Poultry, and 
Dairy Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, herein referred to as the “LPDCEF”.  
 
 
The LPDCEF shall consist of an annual appropriation of seven billion and 
eight hundred million pesos (P7,800,000,000.00) sourced from tariff collections on 
imported livestock, poultry, and dairy for the next six (6) years following the 
approval of this Act.  
 
 
 
Livestock Imports includes imported products under the following HS 
headings or AHTN Codes, and Descriptions: 
 
i. 01.01 - Live horses, asses, mules, and hinnies; 
 
ii. 01.02 - Live bovine animals; 
 
iii. 01.03 - Live swine; 
 
iv. 01.04 - Live sheep and goats; 
 
v. 0106.13.00 - Other live animals - - Rabbits and hares; 
 
vi. 0106.41.00 - Other live animals - - Bees; 
 
vii. 02.01 - Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled; 
 
viii. 02.02 - Meat of bovine animals, frozen; 
 
ix. 02.03 - Meat of swine, fresh, chilled, or frozen; 
 
x. 02.04 - Meat of sheep or goat, fresh, chilled, or frozen; 
 
xi. 02.05 - Meat of horses, asses, mules, or hinnies, fresh, chilled, or 
frozen; 
 
xii. 02.06 - Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, 
horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen; 
 
xiii. 02.08 - Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen; 
 
xiv. 0209.10.00 - Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not   
rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, 
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xv. 02.10 - Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or 
smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal; 
 
xvi. 04.09 - Natural Honey; 
 
xvii. 04.10.00.90 - Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere 
specified or included - - Other; 
 
xviii. 05.02 - Pigs', hogs', boars' bristles, and hair; badger hair and other 
brush making hair; waste of such bristle or hair; 
 
xix. 05.04 - Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), 
whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in 
brine, dried or smoked; 
 
xx. 05.06 - Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but 
not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and 
waste of these products; and 
 
xxi. 05.07 - Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, 
antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply 
prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products. 
 
 
Poultry Imports includes imported products under the following HS headings 
or AHTN Codes, and Descriptions: 
 
i. 
01.05 - Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus 
domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls; 
 
ii. 
02.07 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, 
chilled or frozen; 
 
iii. 
0209.90.00 - Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or  
otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or 
smoked - - Other; 
 
iv. 
0210.99.10 - Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried    or 
smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal - -Freeze dried 
chicken dice; 
 
v. 
04.07 - Birds' eggs, in shell. fresh, preserved or cooked; 
 
vi. 
04.08 - Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked    
by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise 
preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening 
matter; and 
 
vii. 
0410.00.10 - Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere   specified 
or included - - Birds' nest. 
 


 
 
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Dairy Imports includes imported products under the following HS headings or 
AHTN Codes, and Descriptions: 
 
i. 
04.01 - Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added   
sugar or other sweetening matter; 
 
ii. 
04.02 - Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or 
other sweetening matter; 
 
iii. 
04.03 - Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and 
other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not 
concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening 
matter or flavored or containing added fruit, nuts, or cocoa; 
 
iv. 
04.04 - Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added 
sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of 
natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar 
or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included; 
 
v. 
04.05 - Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy 
spreads; and 
 
vi. 
04.06 - Cheese and curd. 
 
 
Tariff collections shall be automatically credited to a special account in 
the general fund of the national treasury which shall be in place within ninety 
(90) days upon the effectivity of this Act. Provided, that if the tariff collection from 
the livestock, poultry and dairy importation exceeds seven billion and eight 
hundred million pesos (P7,800,000,000.00) in any given year within the next 
six (6) years following the effectivity of this Act, the excess tariff revenue shall 
be earmarked by Congress and added to the LPDCEF included in the General 
Appropriations Act (GAA) of the following year.  
 
 
Provided further, that allocation and utilization of the LPDCEF shall be 
subject to the following guidelines: 
 
a)   The Secretary of the DA shall be accountable and responsible for the 
management and utilization of the said fund in coordination with other 
government agencies concerned;  
 
b)  The amount allocated shall be released directly to the implementing 
agencies as provided for in this Act based on the objectives and plans of the 
Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Value Chain Development Roadmap, created 
in Section 4 of this Act. Provided, that the unutilized portion of the LPDCEF 
allocated to the implementing agencies shall not revert to the general fund 
but shall continue to be used for the purpose for which it was set aside. 
Fund releases charged against the said funds shall not be subject to any 
ceiling by the DBM; and  
 
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complementary and supplementary to and shall not be a replacement of 
any existing programs for farmers already implemented by the DA and other 
agencies concerned.  
 
 
SEC. 8.  Allocation and Disbursement of the Livestock, Poultry, 
and Dairy Competitiveness Enhancement Funds. – Subject to the usual 
accounting and auditing rules and regulations, the LPOCEF shall be allocated and 
disbursed, as follows:  
 
a) Twenty percent (20%) of the fund shall be used for repopulation, breeding, 
genetic reproduction of animals, stock infusion, and establishment of semen 
banks, stock farms and breeding centers with complete facilities for food, 
health and safety of   animals. The fund shall be distributed as follows: fifteen 
percent (15%) to BAI and five percent (5%) to be distributed equally to 
PCC and NOA for dairy development in accordance with their additional 
mandates set forth in Sec. 6 of this Act, in addition to their existing budget 
allocations; 
 
b) Fifteen percent (15%) shall be released to NMIS for the creation in 
strategic locations and improvement of first border inspection, in 
coordination with the DPWH and BOC; 
 
c) Fifteen percent (15%) shall be allocated to BAI for animal health and 
welfare, and  native  animal  development  programs,  disease  control, 
prevention and response, including protective surveillance, pest and disease 
emergency response, and conduct of research and technology advancement 
programs to be distributed as follows: five percent (5%) for BAI-LPDPDCS, 
five percent (5%) for BAI-AHWD, and five percent (5%) for BAI-NADS.  
 
A Quick Response Fund (QRF) in the amount of One hundred million pesos 
(Phpl00,000,000.00) from the budget appropriated in this paragraph, shall be 
set aside every year by BAI, as the lead agency in ALERTF, for immediate 
intervention in any event of livestock, poultry, and dairy pest or epidemic 
incident that may be deemed to have the potential to reduce the livestock, 
poultry, or dairy population at the municipal level by at least two percent 
(2%). Unexpended QRF for the year shall be used for animal health, and 
disease control and prevention programs for the following year in addition to 
the existing budget allocation. 
 
In case the QRF for the year is exhausted, the same shall be augmented by the 
Quick Response Fund of the Department, the Calamity Fund under 
Republic Act No. 10121 or other government sources. Local Government 
Units may also augment the QRF using their local funds. 
 
d) Fifteen percent (15%) shall be released to and managed equally by the 
Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and Development Bank of the Philippines 
(DBP), made available in the form of credit facility for the improvement of 
breeders and stocks through the purchase of breeders, growers, multipliers, 
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purchase of livestock, poultry and dairy farm equipment, with minimal interest 
rates and documentary requirements; 
 
e) Ten percent (10%) of the fund shall be used for the implementation of .  
Livestock, poultry and Dairy Infrastructure and Mechanization Development 
Programs. Two (2) percent shall be released to BAFE for the formulation, 
updating, coordination and monitoring of Livestock, Poultry and Dairy 
Infrastructure and Mechanization Programs; preparation of feasibility studies 
and detailed engineering design, and  eight (8%) to DA RFOs Regional 
Agricultural Engineering Division for  building or improving shared service 
facilities including, but not limited to cold chains, primary processing facilities 
like “AAA” certified slaughterhouses, 'AAA' certified poultry dressing plants, 
feed mills,  Halal certified facilities, dairy infrastructure like milking, cooling, 
pasteurization processing and storage, bio-secure animal housing and waste 
management facilities like biogas plants and provision  of machineries, 
equipment and irrigation facilities  for developing pasture lands in strategic 
areas or provinces to serve the needs of raisers, cooperatives or 
organizations;   
 
f) Five percent (5%) shall be released to Cooperatives Development Authority 
(CDA) to be used for organizing and clustering of backyard livestock, 
poultry, and dairy raisers, into formal groups, cooperatives, or organizations, 
 
g) Five percent (5%) shall be used to develop and augment food safety and 
animal support extension and training, to be implemented by BAI, ATI, 
ITCPH and PhilMech. It shall also be utilized for training courses to be 
implemented by TESDA. The fund shall be distributed equally to BAI, ATI, 
ITCPH, PhilMech, and TESDA; 
 
h) Five percent (5%) of the fund shall be used for the provision of insurance to 
qualified livestock, poultry and dairy raisers under an extensive livestock, 
poultry, and dairy insurance coverage; 
 
i) Four percent (4%) shall be allocated to DOST-PCAARRD for farm school-
based and/or industry-driven research and development programs, as well as 
for support to technology transfer and commercialization programs and 
projects, in support of the areas identified in Sec. 4(i); 
 
j) Three percent (3%) shall be released to BAI to be used for planning, 
formulating, updating the Roadmap, monitoring activities, and impact 
assessment studies. It shall likewise be used for the establishment and 
operation of the Livestock, Poultry and Dairy Management Information 
System (LPDMIS), to be used for information data base on supply/inventory, 
price trends, forecasts, best practices, pests, diseases, and epidemics, 
among others, and assessment planning; and 
 
k) Three percent (3%) shall be released and distributed equally to DA-
Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (DA-AMAS) and the 
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to be used for marketing and trade 
promotion activities to benefit livestock, poultry and dairy raisers. 


 
 
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SEC. 9. Beneficiaries of LPDCEF. – The beneficiaries of the LPDCEF 
shall be those backyard livestock, poultry, and dairy raisers, farm workers, 
and their dependents listed in the Livestock, Poultry and Dairy Registry System 
(LPDRS), and livestock, poultry or dairy cooperatives, associations, or organizations 
accredited by the Department. 
 
 
Provided, preferential attention should be given to livestock, poultry, and 
dairy raisers who are members of cooperatives, associations, or organizations. 
 
 
Within one hundred eighty (180) days from the effectivity of this Act, 
the Department, in consultation with farmers' cooperatives and organizations, and 
LGUs, shall validate and update the master list of eligible beneficiaries to ensure that 
those 
listed 
are 
legitimate 
raisers, 
farmers, 
farmworkers, 
cooperatives, 
associations, and organizations. 
 
 
SEC. 10. 
Review 
of 
the 
livestock, 
Poultry, 
and 
Dairy 
Competitiveness Enhancement Funds. – The following mandatory reviews of 
the LPDCEF shall be performed: 
 
a) The percentage allocation of the LPDCEF will be reviewed on the third (3rd) 
year from the effectivity of this Act for possible revisions should intervention 
priorities change; and  
 
b) Before the end of the sixth (6th) year from the effectivity of this Act, a 
mandatory review shall be conducted by the Congressional Oversight 
Committee on Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM) to 
determine whether the LPDCEF and its utilization as provided for under this Act 
shall be continued, amended, or terminated. The increase or decrease in 
farmers' incomes shall be a primary benchmark in determining the 
effectiveness of the interventions under the program and its possible 
extension; 
 
 
In view of its oversight function, the COCAFM, at any time, may conduct 
an assessment of the implementation of programs and utilization of LPDCEF 
directed under this Act. 
 
 
TITLE V 
 
FINAL PROVISIONS 
 
 
SEC. 11. Review of Livestock, Poultry, and Related Feeds Tariff 
Rates. –  Consistent with the policies of this Act, the Tariff Commission shall 
review the most favored nation (MFN) in-quota and out-quota tariff rates on 
livestock, poultry, and corn imports originating from non-Association of 
Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) World Trade Organization (WTO) member 
states. Within sixty (60) days following the effectivity of this Act, the Tariff 
Commission shall recommend to the NEDA Board the possible MFN in-quota 
and out-quota rate adjustments for livestock, poultry, and com imports that will 


 
 
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ensure the competitiveness of the livestock, poultry, and dairy sectors. 
 
 
SEC. 12. Powers of the President. – Consistent with the Philippine 
national interest and the objective of safeguarding Filipino livestock, poultry, dairy 
farmers and consumers, the President is hereby empowered to act with full 
delegated authority subject to the provisions of tine Customs Modernization and 
Tariff Act (CMTA), in the following circumstances: 
 
a) The President may revise or adjust existing rates of customs duties on 
livestock, poultry, and dairy imports up to their respective bound rates 
committed by the Philippines under the WTO agreement on agriculture and 
under ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), including any necessary 
change in classification applicable to their importation. Provided, that the 
adjustment is time-bound and that the power herein delegated to the 
President shall only be exercised when Congress is not in session: Provided 
further, that any order issued by the President adjusting the applied tariff rates 
shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication;  
 
b) In the event of any imminent or forecasted shortage, animal disease 
epidemic, or such other situation requiring government intervention, the 
President is empowered for a limited period and/or a specified volume, to allow 
the importation of livestock, poultry, and dairy products at a lower applied 
tariff rate to address the situation. Such order shall take effect immediately 
and can be issued even when Congress is in session; 
 
 
The power herein delegated to the President may be withdrawn or 
terminated by Congress through a joint resolution. 
 
 
SEC. 13.  Budget for the Procurement of Local Fresh Milk and Fresh-
Milk based Products under the Milk Feeding Program of RA No. 11037. – The 
DSWD and DepEd shall allocate their budgets for the implementation of the 
National Feed Program in procuring locally produced fresh milk and fresh-milk based 
food products which are incorporated in the fortified meals and cycle menu as follows: 
 
a) A minimum of twenty percent (20%) in the first two (2) years following the 
enactment of this Act; 
 
b) A minimum of thirty percent (30%) in the third (3rd; to fourth (4th) year 
following the enactment of this Act; and  
 
c) A minimum of forty percent (40%) in the fifth year (5th) year and thereafter 
following the enactment of this Act. 
 
 
SEC. 14. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within forty-five 
days (45) from the effectivity of this Act, the DA, BAI, NMIS shall, in coordination with 
ATI, BAFS, BAFE, BOC, CDA, DBM, DBP, DOF, DOST-PCAARRD, LBP, NDA, PCC, 
DPWH, DTI, ITCPH, PhilMech, TESDA, NEDA, PSA, and other government 
agencies concerned, shall coordinate with government agencies concerned 
formulate the rules and regulations for the proper implementation of this Act. 
 


 
 
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SEC. 15. Separability Clause. – If any portion or provision of this Act is 
declared unconstitutional or invalid, the remainder of this Act or any provisions 
hereof not affected shall continue to be in force and effect. 
 
 
SEC. 16. Repealing Clause. – Any law, presidential decree or issuance, 
executive order, letter of instruction, rule, or regulation inconsistent or contrary to 
the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
 
 
SEC. 17. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days 
following its complete publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of 
general circulation. 
 
Approved.