Ilang buwan na raw problema ng maraming magsasaka sa Benguet ang sinasabing oversupply ng mga repolyo. Dahil dito, ang mga hindi na naibebentang repolyo ay itinatapon na lamang sa gilid ng kalsada. Pero oversupply nga ba ang dahilan kung bakit mababa ang bilihan ng repolyo sa magsasaka?
Panoorin ang #MagtanimAyDiBiro, dokumentaryo ni Kara David, sa #IWitness
Full episode: https://youtu.be/GcCkQoceR64
Panoorin ang #MagtanimAyDiBiro, dokumentaryo ni Kara David, sa #IWitness
Full episode: https://youtu.be/GcCkQoceR64
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00:00 I will not give you the money.
00:02 Anyone would be ashamed if their harvest of cabbage worth P30,000 to P50,000 is thrown away.
00:11 There is no profit. And the price is low, so we just drink.
00:17 For months, the farmers of Benguet have been facing the so-called oversupply of cabbages.
00:25 According to the authorities, the number of buyers is low, so they cannot buy all the cabbages.
00:32 Those that cannot be sold are just thrown on the side of the road.
00:40 If the Department of Agriculture will ask,
00:46 the farmers planted too much, so there was an oversupply.
00:52 But is the reason why the farmers are being thrown away really an oversupply?
00:58 The local government has a different view.
01:04 The importation of vegetables has an effect,
01:09 especially carrots and other vegetables that can be imported to our country.
01:17 Because the buyers will not go to Benguet because they have a supply in their local market.
01:26 Dandi studied for several years the planting of vegetables in Bugyas.
01:40 A former teacher in a public school, Dandi decided to become a farmer
01:46 to provide his parents with the land he planted.
01:51 Like other farmers, Dandi also wonders why the price of cabbage in the market is so low.
02:03 Now, they have not changed the way they plant.
02:10 Before, they used to sell it for 20 pesos per kilo.
02:15 Back then, we used to sell directly to the buyers' shop.
02:23 They would get all our vegetables.
02:28 We would not leave any behind or return them.
02:33 We would give them away, not like now, we would give them away.
02:37 Why do you only give away now? What is the difference now?
02:41 Because there are no buyers, and instead of being crushed by cars,
02:47 or being thrown away, if we return them to the garden,
02:54 they will be consumed by the crude oil.
03:00 Dandi gets four tons of cabbage from his farm.
03:19 Each is first class.
03:22 It is grown in a fertilizer and has a good climate.
03:27 I hope this is enough to be able to get it back somehow.
03:42 The next day, the vegetables are sent to the latrine.
03:49 The cabbage is on the road for more than four hours.
03:55 I hope it will not be crushed on the way.
04:00 I hope it will not be crushed on the way.
04:03 [Music]
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