HOUSE Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said on Monday that government officials should raise funds for the construction of cold storage facilities as the farmgate prices of onions continue to fall.

"If they boast they can raise hundreds of billions for a sovereign fund, then I am sure they can do that for cold storage facilities that cost P40 million a piece," Recto said.

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