Batangas solon urges agriculture producers to drop plans for market holiday

By Fatima Reyes
INQUIRER.net, Radyo Inquirer 990AM

MANILA, Philippines – Batangas Representative Mark Llandro Mendoza has called on agriculture producers to abandon their threat of declaring a five-day market holiday, saying this would greatly affect the sector.

A market holiday means that the agriculture producers would not deliver their goods to their consumers.

But Mendoza, also the chairman of the House committee on agricultural, told Radyo Inquirer on Tuesday that the threat was “heavy” and would cause peril to the livelihood of those in the agriculture sector.

The agriculture producers made the threat after they gave a two-week ultimatum for Bureau of Customs Commissioner (BOC) Ruffy Biazon to implement reforms in his agency.  The ultimatum will end this week.

Mendoza also called on Biazon to reach a compromise deal with the producers to solve the conflict, the report said.

Follow Us

Recent Stories:

• Man murdered in London in suspected Islamist terror attack
• PNP: Search for loose firearms will continue
• De Lima vows to catch Mancao
• Ex-cabbie ends 30-year clan rule in Oriental Mindoro
• Fishers wage war for hidden paradise
• 3,000 flee as war looms between Moro reb factions
• Tarlac puzzle: Loss of Aquino candidates
• Lola Trining, 100, never too old to vote, to hope
• Slain judge’s children ask DOJ: Reverse rule on Negros Occidental vice gov
• Judge voids Dagupan City land resolution

Tags: Agriculture , Conflicts , market holiday