HIgh cost of vegetables

Everything is on the rise nowadays. Wait till the additional tax in slex gets approved I'm pretty sure prices of vegetables and other farm products will go sky high

Grabe! mrfdg, one clove of garlic costs Php 8 and a six pack orange costs Php 175! My California premium rice is now Php 50. Vegetables? Please advise, am I a target of some large scale eradication plan?

During the time of President Ferdinand Marcos, he instituted the Green Revolution Program. In that program, ordinary households participated in planting vegetables on anything that they can get their hands on. They used old tin cans, banca, worn out tires, old drums, pots, plastic containers, or any vacant lot (with the permission of the owner of course). The people was so participative that it came to the point that vegetables became affordable in Metro Manila because it turned the cities into a huge vegetable baskets and there were fewer hungry mouths to feed because of the program (according to Ka Totoy Talastas via NET25). My grandmother was the proof of the statement. She was asked by a neighbor to use their vacant lot to plant various vegetables; the government then would choose the best vegetable garden showcase from different barangays, and my grandmother's vegetable garden usually won the contest. Mind you, they were not limited eating camote tops and kangkong leaves. The Philippines had the best rice, never needing of any imports because of the International Rice Research Institute founded during the Marcos regime. Neighboring Asian countries would send their students to study here, and now they have surpassed us in terms of rice production because from what they have learned here, they implemented in their own countries. The question is why did the succeeding government did not continued the program? Is it because it came from an "evil" and "dictatorial" mind?

well in manila that is so expensive but here in province or other cities outside manila vegetables are quite cheaper.. the best way to do there is plant your own vegetables.. instead of planting flowers on pots, plant vegetables in it.

Hi! I'm cooking Chopsuey and this is your topic? Lol. I didn't notice the high cost of veggies since last week, well maybe this week it did. Shocks, now that I'm into veggies this comes up.

Yes I agree with you that vegetable prices are really getting higher and higher. In the old times vegetables were the cheapest but now, even garlic and tomatoes really cost so much. Though vegetables are good for us, I think their prices aren't.. Heheehe.. I think it is affected by the weather here in our country. Since we are having rainy season, maybe crops become very affected that farmers harvest lesser than the usual. There really are vegetables with the price of a kilo of meat already, but if we think of investing to our health, we should realize that what is important is the betterment of our own health..

I am trying to eat more vegetables for health reasons, and this news just depresses me. Well, everything is going up now and so I think this may be inevitable. But it's still cheaper to eat vegetables than chicken, meat or even seafoods.

I did not realize that you'll be affected by this. . Why don't you plant lots of vegetables in your own backyard? saves you a lot of money and you can be sure that what you're eating is clean too. Unlike for us who live im metro manila that we don't know what estero those kangkongs came from but we still buy them since that's the most affordable vegetable around.

Now a days we just eat fried fish only. The cost of vegetable is high and we cannot afford it anymore. I go to the market once in a while to check out the prices and its really frustrating when your money is not enough.