voluntary report public distribution date 12 21 2006 gain number rp6071 philippines poultry and products current future prospects of the philippine industry approved by dennis voboril us embassy prepared sonja perakis international agricultural summer intern highlights broiler has made significant contributions to local economy over past two decades however recent changes in sector s environment including high volatile production costs along with concern about highly pathogenic avian influenza hpai neighboring countries have led a state flux for situation is exacerbated fact that are relatively as result protectionist domestic corn policies which prevents country from being major regional exporter meat includes psd no trade matrix unscheduled manila rp1 rp usda foreign service global agriculture information network template version 2 09 page 23 unclassified acknowledgements author would like thank following people their support during process this study ms nenita yanson bas whose seminal work on