Saturday, July 05, 2008 Expansion of veggie trading post eyed
WITH the increasing volume of vegetables delivered and individuals conducting business at the La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Post, the expansion of the facility is now being considered.
La Trinidad Mayor Artemio Galwan said there is a need to look for sites for other vegetable trading posts to cater to the booming vegetable trading.
Galwan said there are other sites in the town that may be considered as expansion areas for a vegetable trading post.
More than 1,000 trucks deliver vegetables to the trading post per day, according to market inspector Dominador Dongla.
Benguet State University (BSU), which owns vast tracks of land in the town, may be tapped to provide a site for a trading facility.
The mayor said there was an earlier plan between the local government and the educational institution for the development of a trading post, but this did not materialize due to a shift of priority by the Japanese government, who was supposed to finance the project.
"But we can ask BSU for reconsideration so that the plan will materialize," he said.
Aside from the trading post currently managed by the Municipal Government, there are two other privately-owned trading facilities in La Trinidad.
Another site in the town of Tuba is also being considered as a vegetable trading post. A private lot located at Taloy Sur was donated to the Benguet Provincial Government, supposedly for the development of a trading facility, but this proposal remains a plan up to the present.
Former Senator Juan Flavier allotted P10 million for the establishment of a proposed vegetable trading post. (JC)
