BENGUET Governor Crescencio Pacalso said the plea of the vegetable industry to Baguio City for truck ban exemption is being ignored by the City Government.
"The request for Baguio has always been there but it seems it has fallen on deaf ears," Pacalso said.
Pacalso said a report to his office revealed another vegetable truck from the province has been apprehended and halted from deliveries.
The governor added the truck went back to La Trinidad and probably just sold his produce at the market as time for selling has lapsed.
The vegetable industry is affected by the Baguio truck ban and rued the little understanding on the plight of stakeholders of the industry.
"They say we can use other roads or do deliveries at other times but they do not understand our trucks cannot pass on narrow roads and we need to deliver on specific times," Pacalso said.
Pacalso said there are about 30 trucks which need to pass on city roads yet it could not cause that much traffic.
Another consultation will be set on Tuesday, July 4, where possible amendments to the Baguio truck ban will be discussed.
Augusta Balanoy of the Benguet Farmers Marketing Cooperative earlier said truckers are asking for a total exemption and argued the vegetables from the province is under the food lane program of Department of Agriculture saying vegetable trucks are exempted from truck bans.
Balanoy said Benguet is supplying the whole country, in the north, as far as Batanes and the South, as far as Palawan and General Santos.
