{"id":18166,"date":"2014-07-04T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2014-07-04T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:24:21","slug":"villar-traders-manipulated-garlic-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/04\/villar-traders-manipulated-garlic-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Villar: traders manipulated garlic price"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12578\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Cynthia-Villar-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Cynthia-Villar-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cynthia Villar (Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile in the background). Photo from  Villar's Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Cynthia-Villar-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Cynthia-Villar-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Cynthia Villar (Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile in the background). Photo from Villar&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Senate committee on agriculture and food chair Senator Cynthia Villar said yesterday that the unreasonable increase in the price of garlic is a result of price manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is really manipulation because the cost of garlic at production cost is P40 per kilo while imported garlic is pegged at P17 per kilo with duty. How can P17 and P40 per kilo go up to P280 per kilo?\u201d she said during the committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also criticized the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) for their failed implementation of the Price Control Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prices are too high. If you sell it at P100 per kilo, that\u2019s understandable but P280 per kilo is too much,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the senator, the Price Control Act supposedly aimed to protect consumers amid soaring garlic prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no shortage in supply. They (traders) are just controlling the supply, which is in the hands of the few.\u00a0If there was shortage, importation would cost P17 per kilo only at landed cost,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Senate committee on agriculture and food chair Senator Cynthia Villar said yesterday that the unreasonable increase in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[6432,6431,6347],"class_list":["post-18166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","tag-manipulated-garlic-price","tag-traders","tag-villar","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}