Extreme drought hits Cebu City: Farmer decides ‘free harvest’ for tomatoes

CEBU CITY, Philippines — He is giving out his tomatoes for free but not because of the abundance in harvest. He is Emelio Secretaria, a farmer who owns four hectares of farmland nestled in Barangay Sudlon 2, Cebu City. The drought due to El Niño did not exempt him from experiencing the worse. Secretaria recently posted on his Facebook account the situation in one of his farmlands where local tomatoes were planted. He said that more than 15,000 kilograms of his tomatoes could not make it to the markets of Metro Cebu because its sizes were no longer salable. The […]…

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