Philippine Veterinary Medical Association - Northern Mindanao Chapter

25/11/2025

We look forward to welcoming all Veterinarians this 38th PVMA NM Regional Convention on November 27-28, 2025 at Grand Caprice LimKetKai Center, Cagayan de Oro City!

29/05/2024

Calling all Veterinarians!

The PVMA NM Chapter is inviting you to its 37th Regional Convention this coming August 1-2, 2024 at Mallberry Suites Business Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.

For further information and any request, please contact the numbers posted below or DM us directly.

For those who want to avail the early bird package, please deposit your payment to Philippine Veterinary Medical Association Northern Mindanao Chapter’s MayBank account number: 0005-1000566-3.

Please email a photo of your deposit slip indicating your name to our Treasurer: Dr. Eileen Cinco at [email protected]

It will be an honor and privilege to be with you all once again! Thank you!

29/10/2019

Rest in Peace, Dr. Rodeo P. Gonzaga!😔

For those who want to visit him -- his wake is at St. Peter's in Iponan, CDO (until tonight). He will be cremated tomorrow (Oct 30, 2019) 9am at Divine Shepherd, Bulua. There will be a 7am Mass before cremation at St. Peter's.

02/09/2019

The 36th PVMA-NM Convention and CPD Program is in 3 DAYS!!! 😱

Time flies! Register now before it's too late!
CPD POINTS APPLIED!!!

Message us or Call +639173245913 to reserve your slots now!

Time: 8AM-8PM
Date: September 5-6, 2019
Venue: Dahilayan Forest Park, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon

Register now for only PHP 5,000!
Accommodation included!!!

See you there!

26/08/2019

10 DAYS LEFT until the 36th PVMA-NM Convention and CPD Program! ⏱

This year's convention will host some great talks relating to the theme "Animal Welfare & Animal Rights: The Disparity" 🐶🐱🐷🐮

Join us on September 5-6, 2019 at Dahilayan Forest Park, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon. 🌳

CPD POINTS APPLIED!!!

Register now for only PHP 5,000!
Accommodation included!!!

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Message us or Call +63 9173245913 to reserve your slots now!
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See you there!

24/04/2019

DA meeting with Meat Importers
1. Meeting was called by importers regarding DA’s non issuance of SPS for meat imports.
2. DA gave update of supply and demand of pork and poultry.
3. For poultry, 2019 supply is estimated at 1.424B MT (including imports), demand at 1.288B MT, or excess of 136M kgs.
4. Excess supply per quarter is 1Q 16.657 MT, 2Q 59.281 MT, 3Q 16.974 MT, 4Q 42.939 MT
5. 2018 MAV utilization is 92% at 21642 MT (vs MAV of 23490). MAV is only for fresh, chilled and frozen poultry.
6. In August 2018, DA lifted SSG for MDM to ease inflation, but later DA secretary rescinded the order, therefore tariff on MDM should be back to 40% after reverting to tariff commission. Upon checking, tariff is not yet implemented as the BOC waiting for letter from tariff commission to return the tariff to 40%.
7. DA secretary voiced the concern of producers about low prices. Banks also complaining of increased default payment of bank loans.
8. Jesus Cham of MITA mentioned the ‘pro-poor’ advocacy of the group to help reduce prices and alleviate inflation. Sec Pinol countered that there is a big disconnect, that despite pork and poultry imports, meat prices at the supermarket and wet market has not gone down (140-150 for poultry) while farm gate prices remain low. He said the businessmen need to temper profit for the security of the agricultural producers.
9. DA introduced /proposed new measures to control technical smuggling of poultry meat, which includes 100% checking of frozen inventory upon arrival, and checking of release of poultry meat from warehouses upon withdrawal for customer delivery. Plan is eventually to check also at port of origin, especially meat sourced from ‘weak’ countries (not strict in recording and reporting system) like Brazil, China, Eastern Europe. ‘Strong’ countries include US, Canada, Australia, western EU countries.
10. DA mentioned cases where registered approved import volume is lower than what is declared at the warehouses.
11. DA wanted to revisit law on bonded warehouses, where importers get meat for further processing with low tariff, but need to export. Loophole is the law where it states up to 30% of meat can be sold locally but subject to tariff, but no one is checking if this is being implemented.
12. Sec Pinol said he is bound by executive order to release SPS within 7 working days from submission of documents. So all SPS will be released next week, whether approved or disapproved.
13. DA is proposing a meeting with both producers and importers to discuss issues, and maybe link local suppliers with end users.

02/04/2019

This has reference to the D.A. w/ the USDA and its Philippine Cold Chain Project. This project aims to shift the Fresh Wet Market into the Cold Chain. Considering the over importation that resulted to the collapse of the pork prices, this will be the death
blow of the domestic swine industry -- as we only have the comparative advantage in fresh meat... We cannot compete with the imported frozen meat!

01/03/2019

Let us differentiate animal welfare & animal rights...

20/06/2018