Dominican onion producers have informed the Government about the problems they are having to market their products. Representatives of the National Union of Onion Growers, which brings together the production of 41,000 tasks - approximately 835,000 quintals in total -, met with a Commission of Deputies and informed them that their harvest rested in the warehouses of the merchants that had acquired it after an agreement with them and the authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Unfortunately, the traders have been unable to pay them because the market was flooded with more than 650,000 quintals of onions imported from the Netherlands, Peru, and Mexico.
They said they were grateful to President Abinader for lending them the money to sow, but that they now needed his intervention to solve this situation.
Source: hoy.com.do