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Presyo ng native na bawang, umaabot ng ₱400/kg batay sa price monitoring ng ahensiya
Presyo ng native na bawang, umaabot ng ₱400/kg batay sa price monitoring ng ahensiya
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00:00 The target of the Department of Agriculture is to increase the production of some rice grains.
00:04 The DA also appealed to the public to stop our own products.
00:10 Clay is reporting live from the Central News.
00:14 Angelique, the Department of Agriculture is now targeting the high price of some rice grains,
00:22 such as ginger and garlic.
00:26 The price monitoring of the Department of Agriculture shows that the price of a kilo of native garlic is around P400.
00:33 While the imported price is P200.
00:35 The price of ginger is around P280 per kilo.
00:39 The Department of Agriculture said that the rice production is almost finished.
00:44 The local production is also finished compared to the demand.
00:48 The demand for garlic is P130,000 metric tons.
00:51 But Angelique, the current production is only P2%.
00:55 The DA's target is to increase the price to 20% or more
00:59 by making a multiplier farm
01:02 and to distribute the seedlings of garlic from the agencies of the harvest season.
01:08 And to expand the production outside Ilocos,
01:12 such as Cagayan, Mimaropa, Nueva Vizcaya, and Quezon Province.
01:17 If the harvest is doubled in onions,
01:21 it is not impossible to make garlic, especially the native seedlings from the harvest season.
01:27 Meanwhile, the agencies are trying to convince the local cold storage facilities
01:32 and places that import ginger to bring it here to Metro Manila.
01:37 The DA said that not only the consumers use ginger,
01:41 but also the processors that make it in the cotton and other products.
01:46 That's why the supply is struggling because of the price increase.
01:51 Secondly, the agencies are not expanding the production of ginger to meet the demand.
01:56 Angelique is also building cold storage facilities
02:00 to import the product and use it in the season when there is no crop.
02:06 Meanwhile, the ginger from other provinces will be brought to the Kadiwa stores.
02:13 If it is not enough, and if it needs to be imported,
02:18 that's what the agencies will do.
02:20 Caballero is appealing to import our own product
02:27 so that the local farmers can benefit from it.
02:31 According to him, it will be more economical to use native ginger and garlic.
02:37 The products are small and terrible, but they smell stronger and taste better than the imported ones.
02:47 That's the latest from Quezon City, Angelique.
02:50 Yes, Clay. Is it possible that someone is taking advantage of the high price of ginger and garlic?
02:57 Angelique is not being supported by the Department of Agriculture
03:04 that is possibly taking advantage of the price.
03:06 Because they are seeing that the supply is tight
03:13 and they are seeing the advantage of increasing the production.
03:19 It's not bad to increase the production, but it's bad if it's too much.
03:25 That's why the Department of Agriculture will mobilize the supplies from the provinces
03:31 to be brought to the Kadiwa stores.
03:33 And the Kadiwa stores will add more to give more people access to cheaper products.
03:42 For example, in price monitoring, local garlic is P300 per kilo in other markets.
03:49 But in Kadiwa stores, it's P300 per kilo.
03:54 Ginger is P280 per kilo in other markets, but in Kadiwa stores, it's P120 to P150 per kilo.
04:04 So there's a big difference.
04:06 Angelique?
04:07 Okay. Thank you very much, Clayzel Pardilla.