Benguet pushes trader receipts
The receipts will bear the names of the buyer and purchasers, their contact numbers and their addresses, the produce they got and the corresponding prices they owe
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Daily TribuneThe receipts will bear the names of the buyer and purchasers, their contact numbers and their addresses, the produce they got and the corresponding prices they owe
(Photograph courtesy of Unsplash)
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The local government here announced that it is proposing to pass an ordinance to ensure that vegetable farmers will have financial protection over their produce.
This, as the Sangguniang Bayan of La Trinidad approved on third and final reading the ordinance requiring all buyers and purchasers to sign delivery receipts and other proofs that they get vegetable produce from the farmers.
The receipts that buyers and purchasers will sign will serve as proof of their transactions with farmers and is also applicable to the buyers and purchasers who owed the farmers.
It will also bear the names of the buyer 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 disappear without paying the farmers.
It was also prompted by requests of the stakeholders in the La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Post and different trading areas in the municipality.