Chicken and vegetable prices have remained stubbornly elevated, adding to the woes of the Department of Agriculture (DA) that has its hands full reining in elevated pork prices in Metro Manila public markets.
Based on the daily price monitoring reports of the DA, chicken is still being sold at a high of P190 a kilogram, well over the government-imposed price ceiling of P160 a kilo.
Similarly, prices of vegetables have yet to return to their prepandemic levels as farmers are still struggling to recover from the series of typhoons that devastated farmlands during the latter part of last year.
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