DTI: Agri firms need to upgrade

Agricultural producers need to upgrade in various ways to facilitate market access, as the country seeks to revive its agribusiness sector.

In a position paper obtained by the Daily Tribune, the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) said its centralized supply chains have been strengthened to coordinate market linkage systems. The DTI said traditional global markets have been replaced with vertically coordinated market linkage systems.

Under such systems, local sourcing in both developed and developing countries has largely been replaced by centralized national, regional, or international supply chains with strict sets of standards, which “must be met to gain access to global value chains.”

“National and global lead firms now dictate how products are cultivated, harvested, transported, processed, and stored through a series of public and private standards that producers, both large and small, around the world must comply with in order to maintain their access to markets,” said the document.

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