BONGABON, Nueva Ecija: More than 1,000 onion growers from the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan and Tarlac staged a rally here on Friday to protest against an alleged syndicate involving some agriculture officials and onion traders engaged in selling import permits (IPs).
Israel Reguyal, president of the Local Onion Growers for National Economic and Trade Cooperative, said they already sent a letter to Bureau of Plant and Industry (BPI) chief Vivencio Mamaril to stop the issuance of the IPs but has not received any reply as of Friday.
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