Onions are now so expensive in the Philippines that they’ve become a luxury item, and people have been trying to smuggle them across the border
Onions are now so expensive in the Philippines that they've become a luxury item. In early 2021, the price of onions in the Philippines skyrocketed to three times that of chicken, with a kilogram costing up to 600 pesos ($11). Onions had been selling for as little as $1.90 per kilogram just six months prior in...
