Comments on: Market Update: Fresh Produce, Buy Now!!!

By: Roszhien

Roszhien — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:10:21 +0000

aw.. hehe..green revolution it is.. indeed, there had been major price leap in our common vegetables.. i guess it is cause by the relation relationship between supply and demand.. our population(demand) is getting bigger every year while the production (supply) is getting smaller..by this as the law of demand and supply is concern, Producers are manipulating the situation were the law state that “when the demand is bigger than the supply the price increases” since our country is agriculture oriented why there is still a shortage in our staple products like rice?,it happened at the late 2008 where there is a major leap in the price of rice, i cant imagined my self eating kanin at 50 pesos per kilo.. hehe.. by the way.. i guessed many lands had been converted to commercial site since 2000..

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:20:35 +0000

Ebba, funny you should mention Green Revolution from the 1970′s. My father was the head of that program. :)

By: Ebba Myra

Ebba Myra — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:00:07 +0000

On one of my “pamamalengke” days in a local market at small town in Quezon, I noticed the the veggies were not so good, the fact that it was a Saturday (a market day), and the prices are high. When I finally found a “nice” cabbage, it was expensive and the seller said because it came from Baguio. Wow, I said, They said they cannot grow it in that town because of the heat. What about the tomatoes, how come they are also “mahal”, she said they too came from Baguio. And I doubted it because I know for a fact that this fruit do grown bountifully in this town and in fact, a seed that I gave my cousin to try (which came from Japan), yielded a good harvest. But she did not give me “tawad” so I went to another store. It is surprising because in the slum area in Manila, you’ll see potted plants and tropical flowers growing in a little pcs of soil close to garbage cluttered ground.. my friend even exclaimed everything grows in the Philipines. But yet.. with that recent market trip… I am confused of that statement. I don’t applaud the past administration of Marcos, but I remember the days of the Green Revolution of Imelda wherein everybody are complied to plant anything in every pcs of dirt there is in the country. wow.. kangkong and talbos were everywhere.. ampalaya, sitaw.. they abundant. Why can’t we do it now?

By: maricris

maricris — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:15:43 +0000

hi good day to all! do you know where are onion storage in manila? may i know the exact address,? i’ve heard there were lots of storages in divisoria….help naman please…
thanks…

By: mar

mar — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:41:35 +0000

Thanks for the info !marketman