LAST Friday a well organized assembly of industry leaders, government agency advocates and Islamic educators meet at Pryce Plaza in Carmen Hill, Cagayan de Oro City to lay out the organizational formation of the Halal Industry prime movers.
Halal which is a Quaranic term in Islam means lawful or permitted. It is the opposite of “Haram” which means prohibited or unacceptable.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is advocating the growth of Halal Producers and Consumers in Southern Philippines.
In partnership with other government line agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Board of Investments, it encourages economic activity which has a potential of breaking to the export market.
Halal is bounded with HACCP and ISO guidelines in sanitation. The certification for a producer to world standards is determined by various Philippines and international certification boards that works on the parameters of Islam. The government do not certify the Producers since it is a religious matter within the purview of Islamic belief.
The Halal industry is a catalyst to economic development in Mindanao.
The market which goes to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with a population of more than 22 Million to Southeast Asia and Middle East with 1.8 Billion consumers.
Given this data and market potential, the Halal industry will grow and become a mainstream in Mindanao’s economic endeavor.
Among the structures the Halal meeting discussed were the identification and profiling of the stakeholders.
The key players coming from the Cattle growers, fish pond owners and service providers such as the hotels and restaurants and the government agencies tasked to facilitate the organization set-up as well as the legal requirement comes Director Dimasawa Dimapuro whose task of seeing the association brisk the infancy to a regional prime mover.
To compete with the best practices in some other Muslim Asian countries.
There is so much hope and optimism to see Muslims and Christians working in tandem to create a common economic cooperation.
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