Prices remain stubbornly high in the Philippines and onion farmers have been harvesting earlier than usual to reap the windfall. | via philstarlife
on a recent flight from the Middle East were busted trying to smuggle a few bags of the pungent commodity through Manila's airport.It is not the first time the Philippines has experienced a shortage of a basic food staple that caused prices to spike—sugar, salt, and rice have all been hit in the past.
Despite government pledges to boost domestic food production, the country relies heavily on imports to feed its growing population—but tariffs fuel inflation. Every Filipino eats an average of 2.34 kilograms of onions per year and theoretically, the country produces enough to meet the demand, official data shows.But since the tropical climate only allows one planting per year of the rain-averse crop, stocks are consumed or spoil well before the next harvest.
The median age of farmers is 57 and the average farm plot has shrunk to around 1.3 hectares from nearly three hectares in the 1960s.
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