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

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:47:25 +0000

Hi Maricris, FTI is the Food Terminal Inc Complex in Taguig. It is on the North side of the South Super Highway...use the service road from Fort Bonifacio area. The market is open on Saturdays from 6 a.m. to early afternoon. Sorry, a spanish onion is the common white onion with a light brown skin. There is also a more native white onion with a whiter skin, then there are red-skinned onions as well...not to mention shallots. I had a post on onions a while back, you may want to refer to it here...

By: maricris

maricris — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:49:29 +0000

hi marketman! can i know where is FTI? an where can i find a spanish onion? Thanks!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:59:10 +0000

aridelros, I featured a locally grown vanilla bean a couple of months ago...I think some of them are grown outside Davao...

By: joey

joey — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:08:57 +0000

Hmmm…I think the idea of a calendar with the seasons of our fruits and veggies would really be in high demand…hehe ;)

Thanks for the heads up…will head to the market tomorrow! Your bounty looks beautiful! :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:18:51 +0000

aridelros, I think the answer lies in the weather… we really do predominantly plant with the seasons, due to the lack of irrigation, the fact that the rainy season seems to be nasty for most veggies, etc. And fruit, well, they bear fruit when it is in season…in the same way the best apples are available in the Fall in the Northern Hemisphere and six months later in the Southern Hemisphere. I agree that we have relatively lousy storage facilities, and even lousy cleaning facilities (think garlic or onions in the West that are cleared of the mud on them after harvest, then blow dried then stored in dry cool rooms so they last months…. or sprays of think wax on apples and storage in cold rooms for the same reason…) Also, with our weather so hot and humid, any vegetable coming from the farms that are bundled up in heavy plastic and smushed into or onto jeepneys and brought to Divisoria are already effectively steamed before they are even sold… As for prices at Christmas, I think it is predominantly opportunistic pricing by a lot of folks down the food chain…