Benguet farmers fear losses from Manila ECQ
>> Wednesday, August 18, 2021
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Vegetable farmers in
Benguet and nearby areas are worried of additional losses that Enhanced
Community Quarantine in Metro Manila will bring as they also deal with non-stop
rains the past weeks.
Highland Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative general manager Agot Balanoy said the curfew imposed in the National Capital Region from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. until the end of the ECQ will affect vegetable trading.
Balanoy said the usual market hours when the traders bring in their vegetables is from 6 a.m. to midnight every day.
She said that because of shortened market hours, traders, farmers and buyers from NCR agreed to lessen the volume of vegetables that will brought into the capital.
Prices of vegetables are expected to go down since fewer people will be out to buy.
Farmers are waiting for much needed assistance from the Dept. of Agriculture - Cordillera in coming up with a solution.
The first ECQ in March 2020 saw farmers throwing away produce that had rotted because of problems in transporting them through quarantine checkpoints.
Highland Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative general manager Agot Balanoy said the curfew imposed in the National Capital Region from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. until the end of the ECQ will affect vegetable trading.
Balanoy said the usual market hours when the traders bring in their vegetables is from 6 a.m. to midnight every day.
She said that because of shortened market hours, traders, farmers and buyers from NCR agreed to lessen the volume of vegetables that will brought into the capital.
Prices of vegetables are expected to go down since fewer people will be out to buy.
Farmers are waiting for much needed assistance from the Dept. of Agriculture - Cordillera in coming up with a solution.
The first ECQ in March 2020 saw farmers throwing away produce that had rotted because of problems in transporting them through quarantine checkpoints.
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