Prices of vegetables are shockingly high—a Benguet farmer explains why | via ancxph
Nevertheless, while they’ve been harvesting lesser crops now, they are able to sell the produce at a higher cost. They are also able to slowly recover their losses from the early months of the pandemic, when they almost had to give away all their produce as donation.,” he says, noting that the prices of vegetables doubled or even tripled over the past couple of months.
One of the highest priced vegetables is the cabbage, which sold in their trading post yesterday at P110 per kilo. farmers,” says PJ. “So The price monitoring sheet released by the Department of Agriculture yesterday indicates that the retail price of cabbage can go as low as P150 to as high as P220. Carrots can sell as high as P180, pechay at P180, potato at P150, tomato at P160, ampalaya at P200, eggplant at P200—per kilo.
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