{"id":227994,"date":"2019-08-23T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227994"},"modified":"2019-08-23T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T03:24:25","slug":"pinol-eyes-barter-trading-for-agri-products-in-luzon-mindanao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/23\/pinol-eyes-barter-trading-for-agri-products-in-luzon-mindanao\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi\u00f1ol eyes barter trading for agri products in Luzon, Mindanao"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227995\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823081451img85383isto2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227995\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823081451img85383isto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823081451img85383isto2.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823081451img85383isto2-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: BARTER TRADE. Mindanao Development Authority Chair Emmanuel &#8220;Manny&#8221; Pi\u00f1ol is eyeing to implement barter trading for fruits and other agricultural products between the entire island region of Mindanao and Luzon. In photo, the former Agriculture chief (right) shares with Usapang Pangkapayapaan, Usapang Pangkaunlaran (UP, UP) Pilipinas of the Philippine Air Force Virtual TV host (left) Col. Geronimo Zamudio that MinDA will lead a fruit festival in Baguio City on August 24-25, 2019. (Contributed Photo from Philippine Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) head Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol is looking to implement barter trading for fruits and other agricultural products between Mindanao and Luzon to boost economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>This, as the MinDA will lead a fruit festival in Baguio City on August 24-25 featuring products of Mindanaoan farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaguio lacks on fruits and in Mindanao it is harvest season so the fruits there are sold cheap or not everything gets sold at all due to oversupply so it would be wise to sell it somewhere else,\u201d he said during the Usapang Pangkapayapaan, Usapang Pangkaunlaran (UP, UP) Pilipinas of the Philippine Air Force Virtual TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Agriculture chief noted they can bring Baguio vegetables to various areas in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the way back, titingnan din namin kung ano pwedeng dalhin mula sa Pangasinan or Nueva Ecija, sa Catbalogan magkakarga ng tuyo papuntang Mindanao (we will also look into what products we can bring from Pangasinan or Nueva Ecija, in Catbalogan, going to Mindanao),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pi\u00f1ol considered the barter trade system a whole-of-nation approach in supporting the farmers in Mindanao, and among the solutions that will help address the chronic poverty in the island region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also the best way to get rid of middlemen who ups the price yet leaves no profit for the farmers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Baguio fruit festival will feature at least 15 tons of durian, marang, lanzones, and rambutan, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) head Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol is looking to implement barter trading for fruits and other agricultural products &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":227995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-christine-cudis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227994","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=227994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227996,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227994\/revisions\/227996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}