Onion producers protested last Friday morning against the alleged illegal importation of onions from Peru.
Luber Valencia, the president of the Association of onion producers from Manabi, said producers from the area would lose their production because consumers would preferred to pay less money for the Peruvian product.
After presenting a document with their complaint to the mayor of Manabi, Enrique Cano, more than one hundred producers of red onions from the lower area of the Portoviejo river, who were accompanying Valencia, threw more than 20 bags of onions outside the government building.
A section of the street was full of onions.
Cano said he would give the document, in which the onion producers ask for support to stop the smuggling of this product from Peru, to President Rafael Correa.
Source: eluniverso.com