Manila, June 24 -- The Department of Agriculture (DA), in partnership with the Bureau of Customs (BOC), inspected PHP2 million worth of seized red onions on Tuesday in Misamis Oriental.

The DA's Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) and the BOC intercepted the smuggled red onions weighing around 25 metric tons (MT) at the Mindanao International Container Terminal on June 11 in line with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s directives to intensify the campaign against agricultural smuggling.

"Nagpapasalamat kami sa BOC at kay (We thank the BOC and) District collector Arthur Sevilla of Mindanao Container Terminal. Sa mabilis na coordination ng DA-BPI at BOC, hindi na nakalabas ang mga smuggled onion sa mga pamilihan (Because of the immediate coor...