THE Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) revealed that the Philippines had imported less meat during the first 11 months of 2023.

Reports said that the demand was dampened by high prices.

According to the BAI, the Philippines brought in 1.1 billion kilograms of meat as of November last year.

This is down 10.9 percent from 1.3 billion kg in 2022.

Meanwhile, close to half or 49.4 percent of the imported meat were pork.

The volume has been seen as decreasing by 17.1 percent to 550.5 million kg.

The BAI said that the volume of imported chicken goes up year-on-year by 5.7 percent to 393.3 million kg as of end-November.

The decline in the imports is said to occur in beef with the volume declining by 21.7 percent to 134.4 million kg.