SEN. Cynthia Villar on Monday threatened to sue the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) for its failure to stop the cartels that continue to manipulate the prices of some agricultural products being imported into the country.
Villar, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, issued the warning after learning that of the 57,000 metric tons of garlic that had been given import clearance by the BPI, only 12,140 metric tons had arrived as of May.
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