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Farmers exempted from Luzon travel restrictions during quarantine period: trade chief

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Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/business/03/17/20200228-benguet-cabbage-ab-134354.jpg"/><figcaption>Farmers in Benguet load cabbage onto a truck to be sold in different markets including Manila on February 28, 2020. An overabundance of supply, coupled with few buyers, has forced farmers to sell cabbages for as low as P6 a kilo. Alren Beronio, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - Farmers and other food producers are exempted from the travel restrictions imposed by government during the “enhanced community quarantine” period in Luzon, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said Tuesday.Farmers, especially those delivering their produce, should be allowed to travel but will be subject to checkpoints as precautionary measure against the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Lopez said.“Lalo na po pagkain yun, unhampered, tuloy-tuloy po[dapat ang delivery]. Wala pong pipigil dapat. Iche-checkpoint lang po sila,” Lopez said in a press briefing.(Especially since it&#x27;s food, the delivery should be unhampered. Nobody should stop them. They should only be checked at checkpoints.)Under the enhanced community quarantine, the government mandates strict home confinement in all households, suspension of transportation lines, regulation of provision for food and essential health services, and heightened presence of uniformed personnel to enforce isolation procedures. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/17/20/luzon-quarantine-a-breakdown-of-the-implementing-guidelines">Luzon quarantine: A breakdown of the implementing guidelines</a></li></ul>Private establishments providing basic necessities such as those related to food and medicine production, however, shall be allowed to operate or remain open.Lopez assured the public there will be enough supply of basic necessities such as food since movement of cargo within, to and from the entire Luzon shall remain unhampered.“Hindi dapat mag-alala ang mga kababayan natin dahil ang supply ay stable. The prices are stable at allowed po natin ang movement ng cargoes,” he said.

Farmers and other food producers are exempted from the travel restrictions imposed by government during the “enhanced community quarantine” period in Luzon, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said Tuesday.

Farmers and other food producers are exempted from the travel restrictions imposed by government during the “enhanced community quarantine” period in Luzon, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said Tuesday.

Farmers exempted from Luzon travel restrictions during quarantine period: trade chief

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Farmers exempted from Luzon travel restrictions during quarantine period: trade chief

Arianne Merez,

ABS-CBN News

Published March 17, 2020 01:06 PM PHT

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