THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Sunday denied that an alleged oversupply in imported onions is causing a drop in farmgate prices of red onions.
The agency was reacting to a complaint sent to its Facebook Messenger on Friday last week that imported onions are piling up in cold-storage facilities across Central Luzon and weighing down on red onion farmgate prices.
Acting on the complaint, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. ordered the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to verify the DA’s data center, One-Stop Industry Revitalization and Information System (Osiris), which covers 82 percent of cold storage facilities in the…