Legarda demands accountability for onion price crash, import overlap

2026-03-13 - 13:44

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Loren Legarda has called urgent attention to the collapse of onion farm gate prices in Nueva Ecija and Occidental Mindoro, which plunged from P120–P150 per kilogram in January 2026 to just P30–40 in February 2026, leaving farmers on the brink of economic loss while retail prices in Metro Manila remained disproportionately