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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Prices of veggies, fruits fluctuate
STRAWBERRY and fish and shellfish vendors are expected to make it big this Holy Week as Baguio and neighboring areas brace for the onslaught of local and foreign tourists.
Victor Calimlim, head of the Baguio Market Vendors Association, said the cost of fresh strawberries is expected to increase by P20 to P50 per kilo starting Holy Thursday until Black Saturday. This is because strawberry farmers would not be harvesting on Friday and Saturday so there might be a shortage of the fruit.
Calimlim said there is also the tendency that the price of strawberry would hit P200 as what had happened last December. "(But) let us hope that it won't cost too much. By Sunday, hopefully, the price will roll back to normal."
Due to common belief that it is prohibited to eat meat during the Holy Week, prices of fish and other marine products are also expected to soar.
However, Calimlim said buyers should not be alarmed regarding the changes of prices this Lenten season because aside from strawberry and marine products, prices of other commodities will remain the same or even decrease. "We would like to remove the impression that when people come up to Baguio especially during summer, values of all commodities (also) rise," he said.
Prices of highland goods such as Baguio beans is only P15 per kilo now compared to its original price of P30, pechay decreased from P35 to only P15 and red pepper, which is on season, noted a huge decrease in price from P50 to only P20, broccoli from P35 to P30, cabbage also from 35 to P30, carrots from P30 to P25, celery from P30 to P25, cucumber from P15 to P20, sweet peas from P60 to P80 and American tomatoes, from P40 down to P25. (Ma. Charito Fuentes/Kathleen Joyce Layaoen/MMSU interns)
(April 13, 2006 issue)
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