Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan has asked local farmers to follow the recommended planting calendar to avoid over supply and lower prices on their vegetables.
He said that since last month, the situation was already experienced by farmers who have to bargain their fresh harvests at lower prices or suffer bigger losses.
Fongwan said these vegetables include cabbages, potatoes, pechay, and chayote, among others. Farm gate prices of cabbage is five pesos a kilo while potatoes are 10 pesos a kilo.
Prices of strawberries and carrots remain high due to higher demand.
"While our local farmers have some minimal losses at this period, we are likewise happy that consumers enjoy relatively lower prices but enjoy better quality of our fresh vegetables," he said.
Farm inputs like fertilizer, he said, remain high but tract farming in towns like Buguias and Atok continue to maintain the more than 2,000 tons of daily shipment of the local products to destinations like Metro Manila area.
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