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Huge Market for Veggies in Mindanao
By Prix Banzon
Philippine Information Agency
DAVAO CITY — There?s a huge market for vegetables in Mindanao and yet farmers produce the product for the Luzon area.
This was the observation made by Dante Sarraga, Jr., executive vice president of the Philippine Vegetable Industry Development Board during the Club 888 Forum at The Marco Polo Hotel yesterday.
Sarraga said if the vegetable produce are marketed within Mindanao, farmers will earn more instead of the products shipped to Manila where the transport time run up to 52 hours and have to l wait for 70 days to get paid.
?If transaction is done here mas madali kasi kaliwaan lang yan, you deliver the product and get paid immediately,? he said.
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