That’s the time you have to really prepare and you prepare for it for a year. “During Christmas season, the demand doubles, sometimes triples. In an interview with a business publication, he said:
Fausto offers more explanation about the onion shortage which led to the decision to import the commodity. “Maybe, the new leadership did not notice this,” Mr. He underscored, however, that there has been a change in the leadership of the Agriculture department following the May 2022 elections. The non-culpability of the present Agriculture department leadership is best explained by the president of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc, (PCAFI), Danilo Fausto.Īccording to Fausto, the sad State of the Onion is due to the failure of the Agriculture department to “adequately project supply and demand for this commodity.” He noted that the government “failed to import so we are short of supply.” We share that view, just as we underscored in a recent column that it is unfair to blame current Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista for the failure of the air transport monitoring system in January first. Many observers have been quick to absolve the current leadership of the Agriculture department for this mess. We also hope – and we are confident – that the leadership of the Department of Agriculture would come up with permanent solutions other than palliatives like importation. Like most of our countrymen who depend so much on onions to flavor both their entrees and their lives, we can only hope that the planned importation will happen soon, that it will bring down the price, and that it will result in an abundant supply of one the most important “pang-gisa” in this part of the world. We do not know if the move is a wise one. Last Friday, the government announced that it has now authorized the importation of onions. We can understand a shortage in fuel, water, or even rice.īut a shortage of onions is, for us, something that actually borders on fiction. It is one of the realities the country is facing today, and one that is so mysterious that we are all still trying to figure out what the real “State of the Onion” in the country is.Īll we know is that, at this point, the price of “sibuyas” here is the most expensive in the world and that it is such in short supply.
In the Philippines, the “State of the Onion” is a mystery, but hardly fiction. The Anthony Awards are a prestigious recognition given to the year’s best novels – mystery fiction, in particular. The book, written by Julie Hyzy, won the prestigious Anthony Award for “Best Paperback Original” the following year.
The title of the book: “State of the Onion.” In January of 2008, there was a book written and published in the United States.
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