Shortage of onions in the Philippines

Sinag chairman Rosendo So has warned retail prices of onions could reach P400 per kilo (€6.80) as he sees a shortage. So said in an interview that Sinag had already recommended to the Ministry of Agriculture last month to import at least 7,000 tons of white onions and 7,500 tons of red onions to address the onion supply shortage. "We prefer to have affordable onions on the market, there is a real shortage. We have already warned the ministry that onion prices will spike, so last month we recommended to import white onions in November and white and red onions in December" he added. So accused some officials of colluding with traders to manipulate the onion supply: "The people at the Bureau of Plant Industry have been there for a long time. They know the consumption and production volume of onions in order to plan and whether there is must be imported to avoid an increase in onion ...