THE penultimate month of 2022 and more specially the country’s Christmas celebration last year was enmeshed with the nationwide issue on the dismal supply of sibuyas.
As a consequence, the Law on Supply and Demand followed. And because of the low supply, the per kilo price in the market skyrocketed.
The consequential effect on the price of the item can never be prevented. Not even President Bongbong Marcos can offer any remedy. Neither Congress of the Philippines nor the Supreme Court of the country can do the same.
It’s beyond their powers and prerogatives.
This concern, however, slowed down during the first few days of 2023.
But last night, it was reported again via television that some Manila markets are again selling sibuyas at high prices.
Again, with the same cause. The Law on Supply and Demand.
With the recurring price of the item, Short Cuts has a piece in his mind.
“Why worry?”, is Short Cuts’ outright answer to the problem. “Let us amend the law”, Short Cuts went further. But as said earlier, the three branches of government can never offer any solution to the dilemma.
With such a prevailing fact, the only way to dismantle this very powerful Law on Supply and Demand is to amend, alter, and improve the working habits of every Filipino, more specially the Boholanos.
What way?
Every Filipino must be industrious. Plant, plant, and plant sibuyas. Big areas of land for planting sibuyas is not necessary, for the meantime.
Just start with home consumption. So that if many households are no longer buying sibuyas for they are already producing, then the number of buyers of the item become lesser. Therefore, the demand lowers down. Then, the price is cheaper.
And, what if large tracts of land in the whole of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are already devoted to sibuyas production, will our national government be still worried of the supply from abroad?
Definitely, NO.
At this point in time, our national leaders must be reminded that our dear Philippines is an agricultural country.
We must develop our country to be exporters and NOT importers. Train our farmers to be such.
And, it is requested of our national leaders to please guide and develop our farmers as future exporters.
Foremost, our Filipino farmers, poor as they are, need financial assistance to do their utmost in cultivating the drive. Technical assistance is as well needed if only to produce a well-informed sibuyas cultivator and producer.
As a Filipino, are you not proud if years from now our country becomes an exporter of SIBUYAS?
