{"id":241346,"date":"2020-01-04T03:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241346"},"modified":"2020-01-04T03:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T08:45:21","slug":"govt-allows-importation-of-35k-metric-tons-of-red-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/04\/govt-allows-importation-of-35k-metric-tons-of-red-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t allows importation of 35K metric tons of red onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_241347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241347\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241347\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-shallots-3260186_1920-1024x819.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-241347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a press conference on Friday, DA Secretary William Dar said he has greenlighted the importation of 35,000 metric tons of red onions to plug the two-month production gap in the country. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Agriculture (DA) has authorized the importation of red onions until mid-February to bring down prices.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Friday, DA Secretary William Dar said he has greenlighted the importation of 35,000 metric tons of red onions to plug the two-month production gap in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These red onions can only be brought in up until mid-February so that it will not be in competition with the main harvest time starting March,&#8221; Dar said.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest Philippine Statistics Authority data in December, the price of red onion is at a high of PHP195 per kilogram for wholesale.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the prices range from PHP150 to PHP200 per kilogram in supermarkets and groceries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Agriculture (DA) has authorized the importation of red onions until mid-February to bring down prices. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":241347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346","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=241346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241348,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346\/revisions\/241348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}