Amid rising prices of goods, Imee asks: Where’s the harvested, surplus veggies?

MANILA, Philippines --- Senator Imee Marcos has questioned the executive branch on the whereabouts of the surplus harvest of vegetables in the midst of rising prices of goods in the country. Marcos, in a statement on Wednesday, said that the country has huge surpluses of harvested vegetables, amounting to over 700,000 metric tons (MT) in 2022. However, the senator said that theDepartment of Agriculture (DA) Supply and Demand Outlook as of December 12 showed that the destinations and end-use of excess vegetables remained unclear. This means that, Marcos claimed, there may be an unknown degree of food wastage. "This points to an unknown degree of food wastage and lost income f...

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