ON A 1,000-square-meter agricultural land in Matanao, Davao del Sur, farmer Lupe Calunsag started planting bulb onion and shallot varieties along with other vegetables in the hope of lifting his family out of poverty.
ON A 1,000-square-meter agricultural land in Matanao, Davao del Sur, farmer Lupe Calunsag started planting bulb onion and shallot varieties along with other vegetables in the hope of lifting his family out of poverty.
Seeing his neighbor harvest and earn from onions, he eagerly accepted two cans of onion seeds from the Department of Agricuture (DA)-Davao region in 2009, enough to cover the land he tills.
While growing onions could be very costly because of the need for fertilizer, Calunsag saw its potential to earn higher as he noted that the local farm gate price is not lower than P50 per kilograms (kg), compared to P20 to P30/kg in Luzon.
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