Onions

In the Philippines, Onions Are Now Too Cheap

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The Philippines is temporarily halting its onion imports until May—and possibly even up until July—in a bid to control prices from getting too cheap. It’s a complete 180 from the Southeast Asian nation’s problems a year ago—when dwindling supply of the staple vegetable was causing prices to become more expensive than beef. In January 2023, … Read more

Instead of $32,000, crippled Russian soldier given two buckets of carrots, onions — photo

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A Russian soldier from Volgograd Oblast, who was seriously injured fighting against Ukraine, has been compensated by local authorities with kilograms of vegetables, the Telegram news channel iStories reported on Dec. 26. Oleg Rybkin, 45-years-old, was mobilized on Sept. 25, 2022 and found himself near the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhya Oblast, just as the Ukrainian … Read more