Benguet capital requires traders of receipts to protect farmers

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Local legislators of the capital town of Benguet are on the way to ink an ordinance to ensure that vegetable farmers will have financial protection over their produce.

An ordinance requiring all buyers and purchasers to sign delivery receipts and other proofs that they get vegetable produce from the farmers will soon be fully implemented once approved into enactment. This after the Sangguniang Bayan of La Trinidad ensured its 3rd and final reading.

The receipts that buyers and purchasers will sign will serve as proof of their transactions with the farmers. Such will apply to the buyers and purchasers who owe the farmers.

The receipts will be of big help to farmers when they will charge their clients for their debts. The receipts will bear the names of the buyers and purchasers, their contact numbers and their addresses, the produce they got, and the corresponding prices they owe.

The ordinance was proposed by the municipal council through Councilor Bartolome Baldas Jr. after many incidents where some buyers and purchasers disappeared without paying the farmers. The legislative move was also prompted by requests of the stakeholders in the La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Post and different trading areas in the municipality.