BAGUIO CITY—The demand for vegetables grown in Cordillera farms has gone down, causing huge income losses, at times bankruptcy, among farmers and traders in Benguet province.
Fortunato Bunaldi, a vegetable trader in Benguet’s capital town of La Trinidad, said many of their bulk buyers outside the province had stopped placing their orders.
“Even if farmers produce vegetables but their customers have no work or are out of business, how can they buy from us?” Bunaldi told the Inquirer on Tuesday.
Bunaldi said their deliveries had dropped by 50 percent when the government enforced lockdowns to address the spread of COVID-19.
“The daily vegetable orders we get from our buyer…
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