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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Wednesday that it started construction on a P40-million vegetable processing and packaging facility in La Trinidad, Benguet, which is intended to reduce waste from unsold crops.
In a statement, the DA said Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar led the groundbreaking for the Benguet Agri-Pinoy Trading Center (BAPTC) on Tuesday.
“The rationale of having this food processing facility,
ayaw natin na mangyari muli na iyong excess ay matatapon lang (we don’t want to have another bumper crop that will have to be thrown away). We still want to convert (the harvest) to value-added products,” Mr. Dar, who is also the cabinet officer for regional development and security in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), said in a statement.