date:Sep 09, 2020
ome in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, she added said. Some 30 percent of 825 strawberry growers had started planting high-value commercial crops like lettuce to recoup their losses.
Known as the strawberry capital of the country, this Benguet capital produces an average of 1,175 tons of strawberry annually from more than 50 hectares of its agricultural land.
It was quoted Peter Bulangen, a grower at the La Trinidad strawberry farm, as saying they had been relying on tourists to sell the