KADIWA stores run by the Department of Agriculture will stop selling cheaper onions beginning today, Friday, as its agreement with Food Terminal Inc. (FTI), the supplier of the precious commodity, ended last December 31, 2022. READ:
LAST BATCH FOR THE MEANTIME.
“Starting tomorrow, there will be none for the meantime. We have to make sure if we have to have supplemental MOA, then everything has to be in order to start the second cycle,” Evangelista said.“We’re in the second week of January… We also took into consideration that the price will go down,” Evangelista said.
Evangelista said the DA is monitoring the farm-gate price of onions, saying it receives reports that farmgate prices of the commodity go as low as P210 to P250 per kilo. Onions, along with other vegetables pushed inflation upwards to 8.1 percent in December 2022. Vegetables alone posted a 32.4 percent inflation for the month, the highest since February 1999.
Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the ongoing intensified operation against agricultural smuggling is part of their efforts to answer the direction set by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., as well as an assurance to the public that the bureau is on top of the situation. CIIS Director Jeoffrey Tacio shared that the spot exam of the containers become possible because of the information they received.
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