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BENGUET FARMERS QUESTION DA CARROT IMPORTS AS LOCAL GROWERS STRUGGLE
ATOK, Benguet — A Benguet councilor is urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to suspend its planned importation of 6,000 metric tons of carrots, warning that the move could further burden local farmers already suffering from low farmgate prices despite high market costs. Atok Councilor Kelly Denn Tomas, together with agricultural researchers and civil society groups, called on the DA to reconsider the importation plan and explain the basis for the decision before implemen

Raymond Sakiwat
May 82 min read
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