LA TRINIDAD, Dec. 4 -- The Benguet State University (BSU) has developed a dried "chop suey chips" technology that it hopes more processors will adopt to help curb the dumping and rotting of surplus highland vegetables.

"We have right now two adapters producing small quantity of vacuum-sealed fried chopsuey chips, but we might ask the Food Science Research Institute to help us promote the product and encourage more adapters," Dr. Jao-jao Somayden, dean of the BSU College of Home Economics and Technology, said in an interview on Thursday.

Developed through research from 2021 to 2023, the technology aims to address chronic oversupply that forces farmers to discard or give away produce, resulting in income losses.

The two current adapters ...