THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it is coordinating with regional offices to prevent tomato wastage amid the offseason harvest.
THE Department of Agriculture said it is coordinating with regional offices to prevent tomato wastage amid the offseason harvest.'We are talking already with the regional field office of Cordillera and Region 2 to check on these surpluses of tomatoes,' Agriculture Assistant Secretary Arnel de Mesa said partly in Filipino in an interview following reports of tomato disposal in Nueva Vizcaya.
Earlier, Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura Chairman Rosendo So said coordination and linkages between the DA and farmers' cooperative associations should be improved.He cited the possible drop in retail prices of tomatoes due the volume of offseason harvest following the spiking prices in early July which reached P140 to P220 per kilogram .De Mesa, however, said the current retail prices are still within the P60/kg to P80/kg reasonable bracket price for tomatoes.
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