Trading post operations to continue

OPERATIONS of the La Trinidad vegetable trading post will push through, until such time the glitches at the Benguet Agri-Pinoy Trading Center (BAPTC) are fixed.

Mayor Romeo Salda during the weekend said the trading post will remain as a business center for retail traders only with the town studying several options for the co–management of the BAPTC with Benguet State University (BSU).

Salda added all large-scale transactions will be advised to transfer their business in BAPTC once the turnover of the facility’s operation has been approved by Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol.

“The trading post will continue to operate but this will be for the small businesses only, all of the large deliveries will then be advised to make their dealings at the BAPTC,” Salda said.

“BAPTC will hold the wholesale transactions, so doon mag-kakaroon ng mas malalaking trading among the farmers and the businessmen who buys the products,” he added.

Salda said the decision of maintaining the trading post is temporary and will still be subjected to changes once BAPTC becomes fully operational.

“We still want them to use the trading post but if we want to establish the BAPTC and prepare for the farmers association to soon take over, we must encourage them to transfer there gradually,” Salda added.

Benguet and the neighboring Mt. Province farms supply the daily vegetables, cut flowers and strawberry requirements for the lowland areas.

In more than two decades, vegetables are sold each day at the trading post, which was built to give farmers a better market price without middlemen.

At the moment, the Technical Working Group (TWG) assigned by Piñol is finalizing its report for the management of the BAPTC.

According to Salda, the LGU has scheduled a meeting with BSU to collaborate their plans after the TWG has given the green light for the co-management of the area.

Salda added the recommendation of the TWG include the temporary management of the LGU-BSU for at least three years before the turnover of its administration to the farmers association.

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