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Starting this year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will construct six cold storage facilities in four onion-producing districts to aid local farmers.

Each 20,000-bag facility, which will be built in the Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, and Mimaropa districts, will cost up to PHP40 million.

“Malagyan na, tayuan po ng mga storage facility nang sa gayon during peak harvest season. The importation is not sagotized. Building storage facilities will allow us to make use of the location during the busiest harvesting season. Importing is not the solution. Romel Calingasan, an agriculturalist from San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, said during a Senate hearing on Monday that “Our place has a big potential”

In Occidental Mindoro, two cold storage facilities will be constructed, however, Calisangan expressed worries about the placements.

For instance, San Jose, the biggest onion-producing region in the province, is around 16 to 20 kilometers from a planned facility in Rizal town.

The other Sablayan intended site is 97 kilometers apart and further away.

The concurrent head of the DA, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has previously emphasized the need of helping farmers and insisted that importation shouldn’t be a long-term solution to safeguarding farmers and providing consumers with cheaper commodities prices.

“In order to have production and avoid importing, we must return to the onion producers and assist them. We’ve grown so accustomed to imports… The inflationary forces of that country are also carried to the Philippines when we import products, he claimed.

Two cold onion storage facilities with a capacity of 10,000 and 20,000 bags, respectively, were turned over by the DA in March 2022. a PHP20 million facility to the Sapang Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Moncada, Tarlac, and to farmers of the Valiant Primary Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Barangay Marcos Village, Palayan City, Nueva Ecija.

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