ALAMADA, COTABATO — A supply glut has pushed the prices of squash in this town plummeting as low as P2 a kilo, forcing beleaguered farmers to either give them away or leave them along the roadside to rot. In an upland village of Campo Dyes, mounds of squash (genus Cucurbita) were seen along the roadside to rot as farmers gave up hope of selling them at the right price, said Kimay Alvarez, who took photos of the abandoned squash and posted these on her Facebook page. Edmundo Guleng, Alamada town agriculture officer, admitted that there had been a glut in the supply of squash recently after farmers, encouraged by the high buying price in the previous harvest, had planted squash in large volumes, resulting in an oversupply.

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