Production and Distribution! MinDA FORMS TASK GROUPS FOR FOOD SUPPLY STABILITY

Early yesterday, while on Self Quarantine, I fired off a Memorandum for all officials and employees of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) to ensure that supplies needed for food production in Mindanao and transport faciities for food delivery and distribution would be made available.

This followed requests from poultry and livestock sectors for help in transporting biologics, veterinary supplies, hatching eggs for broilers and layers and feeds, most of which are sourced in Luzon.

The Inter-Agency Task Force for COVID 19 has been advised on this issue and there was an assurance that all of these supplies will be facilitated.

Biologics, veterinary supplies and feed additives or microminerals are critical in the stable supply of meat and poultry products from Mindanao, especially now that Luzon has another outbreak of the Bird Flu.

A delay in the delivery of hatching eggs both for egg layers and broilers will destabilize the production schedules and result in shortage.

MinDA will play its role and perform its mandate with the implementation of this memorandum:

March 18, 2020

Memo For All MinDA Officials/Employees:

Everybody is hereby directed to keep continuous monitoring of the supply of food and other essential commodities in your respective localities.

Specifically, AMOs are required to submit a regular reporting on food supply situation especially in the island communities.

Reports are to be submitted through digital communications.

The Executive Director, USec Janet Lopoz, is tasked to coordinate with relevant agencies to ensure that production requirements of the food producing sector such as biologics, veterinary supplies, hatching eggs and others are transported from Metro Manila to the points of destination in Mindanao.

Asst. Secretary Romeo Montenegro is tasked to make an inventory of trucks and vessels which may be needed in the course of our food supply sufficiency program.

Both officers are also directed to coordinate with the Chief Executives of Local Government Units which enforced Lockdowns to work out a system to allow and facilitate the passage of transport facilities loaded with food supplies or food production inputs.

USec Lopoz and Asec Montenegro are directed to organize their own Task Forces and engage the services of other MinDA Officials and Employes in implementing these directives.

Sec. Manny Piñol

Chairman, MinDA

Forward Copy of Memorandum to:

– Office of the President

– Office of the Executive Secretary

– Chairman, Inter-Agency Task Force

(First three photos were downloaded from public websites while the last photo was taken by the MinDA Media Team in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur.)