THE Agriculture department said only 5,000 metric tons (MT) worth of onion imports from the initial target of 21,060 MT will arrive by the shipment deadline this week.
“The applications approved last week,” Rex C. Estoperez, deputy spokesman of the Department of Agriculture , toldby phone on Sunday. “The volume that has been granted import clearances is only 5,000 metric tons.”
“Our projection is to sell it between P100 to P150, but we’ll see once the imports arrive,” Mr. Estoperez said. Importers were given a Jan. 27 deadline to bring in their shipments, a condition designed to minimize the impact on the domestic onion harvest.According to the DA’s price monitoring report from Jan. 20, domestic red onions sold for P300 to P400 per kilo, with white onions at P250 to P400 per kilo.icer-in-charge director of the DA’s Bureau of Plant Industry , told reporters in a briefing last week that the goal is to bring onion prices below the SRP.“Most of the smuggled items are misdeclared.
“And yet retail prices of onions remain high. Regardless of the actual volume of imported onions that will arrive, the damage has been done,” he said.
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