Quimbo then asked if cartels could explain the rise in prices. Iyong pricing.di po kami iyong sa price control ,” Panganiban said. “With regards to pricing, the BPI is mostly in sanitary and phytosanitary concerns, as well as high value crop production. Panganiban added that price control is beyond the BPI’s mandate. Panganiban said the government, monitoring of the production situation, found out that farmers lacked cold storage facilities for their produce. “Of course, there damage due to typhoons, but that is not enough for us to have excess supply in 2019 to extreme lack of supply now,” Quimbo added. (Why did prices suddenly double, triple when the shortage was only 7%? Are you saying our entire production capacity has eroded in three years?) Bakit po ganun na biglang nagtaas ang presyo, dumoble at tumriple ganung 7% lang ang shortage? Are you saying nawala lahat ng production capacity natin in three years?” Quimbo stressed. “Prices are dictated by supply and demand. Likewise, Quimbo said that the demand of onions for 2022 was for 363,937 metric tons against 338,354 metric tons of supply, meaning there was a modest shortage. Quimbo said that only 30,000 metric tons of onions were imported in 2021, a year before prices skyrocketed, even though the Philippine government issued an import permit for 200,000 metric tons of onion in the same year. Quimbo responded that such an event should have prompted the agriculture department to adjust its importation policy. (Majority of the ones that came in are of this kind, including red onions.) “Iyon po ang majority ng pumasok, merong red onions,” Panganiban added.
But it happened at the peak of that time where we were confiscating smuggled onions with food safety risk.) (The feedback from farmers is that when supply is thin, imported and smuggled onions pours in. We confiscated onions with food safety risk,” Panganiban told the House agriculture and food panel. It really happened at the peak nung pag-confiscate namin ng smuggled onions. “Ang feedback po ng farmers, taon-taon po nangyayari ito na kapag kaunti ang supply, bubuhos iyong imported, smuggled. Onion prices in the country surged amid the entry of smuggled and unsafe onions, the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) said on Wednesday.īPI Director Glenn Panganiban, also the Program Director of the National Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Program (NUPAP), gave this response when quizzed by House appropriations panel vice chairperson Stella Quimbo of Marikina as to how the country went from an oversupply of onions and low prices in 2019 to onions selling for as much as P720 a kilo in 2022.
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