sets ceiling for wholesale price of onions

By Othel V. Campos and Rio N. Araja

IN an effort to pull down the price of onions, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is setting a price limit to wholesale onions at P115 per kilogram for red on- ions and P100 per kilo for white onions, based on their “cold storage price.”

In an interview on radio dzBB, Agriculture Assistant Secretary Kristine Evangelista said stakeholders agreed to impose the “cold storage price” during a recent meeting with local farmers, traders, cold storage operators and the government.

“From where the sellers get their onions, we decided to set a price. This is like a cold storage price since all of the onion harvest of farmers is with traders already. This means that all the onions kept in cold storage are likely owned by traders,” she said.

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