Onion growers ask Aquino for help

The onion and garlic growers opted to approach President Benigno Aquino 3rd and asked him to help them stop the alleged “perversion” of some officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the failure of authorities to stop the illegal smuggling of onions and garlic in the country.

In a statement, Sibuyas ng Pilipino Ating Alagaan (Sipag) President Francisco Collado and more than 100 farmers and onion growers, asked President Aquino to stop the agriculture department from issuing import permit to a group, which they claimed is just a syndicate.