The senate minority leader slammed government “decision makers” for pursuing policies in the agriculture industry that choke onion farmers, who can readily meet the country’s demand given ample support. READ:
We have to trust them and place our bets on them,Ramon Silverio, chair of the provincial cooperative development council of Occidental Mindoro, said during an agriculture hearing on Monday that their province alone can supply the nationwide demand if they receive proper support from the government.
Region 4-B or Mimaropa, where Occidental Mindoro belongs, was the second biggest onion producing region in the country, based on a 2021 onion sector investment guide published by the Department of Agriculture . The top producer was Ilocos.the decisions that our decision makers have been making are all to the detriment of the Filipino onion farmer.
The opposition senator said that he did not trust the supply and demand data presented by the DA, consolidated just a day before the recent Senate hearing.As usual, we have figures on agriculture products, but I personally do not or cannot automatically believe them,Hence, we have difficulty determining root causes because our research or data keeping is so unreliable.”
Senators on Monday found that the high price of onions is disproportionate to the small shortfall in domestic production, noting that this could have easily been addressed by well-timed imports.
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