Iran eyed as market for bananas

Yes the government seems to be ignorant and don’t have the data because of incompetence. Look at the people in charge of helping banana exporters, the Plant Quarantine Service in Davao, they are very rich now, as if they are providing the capital for exports.

These people are working for their pockets not for the industry.
 
The shelf life of cavendish banana cannot reach the EU, the US and the Scandinavian countries but it can reach Australia. How incompetent are the people in the government that we cannot penetrate the Australian market?

Let us clean the bureaucracy, replaced the corrupt and incompetent people now. 

This government annoucement is crazy and stupid. Why is the government trying to show to people that Iran is a potential market when in fact Philippine bananas are already being flooded to Iran at this point in time? In fact, Iran is already the second largest market for Philippine bananas next to China. With China being gone, Iran is already the largest market. So why send a trade mission to Iran? It is like the article the other day saying that Singapore is being eyed as a market when in fact the large multinationals are already in Singapore.

Malacanang is projecting an image that they are trying to resolve the problem faced by the banana industry, when in fact they do not know what they are talking about. While the government issued this press release about sending a trade envoy to Iran to sell bananas, the big multinationals have already dumped their excess bananas to Iran, effectively lowering the price because of oversupply.

Let us face it. As long as the Scarborough Stand off persists, China will always look for a reason not to accept our bananas so that we would suffer economically. The thing is, scale insects and mealy bugs have always been there during previous shipments to China before the Scarborough Stand off happened and the Chinese quarantine personnel have never complained about it. So why are they complaining only now?

On the other hand, why is China claiming an island that is 500 miles away from them from a small country whose distance from the island is 100 miles away, and as a consequence of not getting what they want, impose quarantine sanctions that greatly affect economic prosperity in the smaller country?

It is true that there are other markets aside from China. However, even before this China crisis happened, the big multinationals have already established their marketing presence and distribution chains in these countries. And as this China problem continues to get worse, the multinationals continue to send their excess bananas to these other countries, thus lowering the buying price due to the law of supply, demand and price.

So please, stop fooling people that you are trying to look for an alternative solution. The real problem is that China is imposing these sanctions because of Scarborough. So fix this Scarborough problem so that China will accept Philippine bananas again.