Manila, Aug. 31 -- The National Anti-Poverty Commission-Cooperatives Sectoral Council (NAPC-CSC) said it gathered vegetable farmers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) on Monday for a consultation on crop yield and risk assessment together with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA).

The initiative resulted from an agreement reached during the Inter-Agency Coordination Meeting on the Food Conservation Program (FCP) last July 16.

It aimed to collect critical, first-hand data on the root causes of vegetable dumping, a persistent problem causing heavy financial losses to local farmers in the region.

During the session, Cordillera vegetable growers cited low trader pricing, the absence of a proper farm-gate price, deficient...