El Niño causes P4 billion agriculture losses

MANILA, Philippines — The El Niño weather pattern has led to around P4 billion in losses for agriculture, a government official announced on Wednesday. Joey Villarama, a spokesperson for the El Niño Task Force, stated that this amount reflects the harm done to 66,000 hectares of farmland due to the dry spell. READ: Lack of El Niño preparedness “Sa huling datos na galing sa Department of Agriculture, nasa P3.94 billion na po ang danyos sa agrikultura—that’s equivalent to about 66,065 hectares,” said Villarama during the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon public briefing. (According to the latest Department of Agriculture data, damage to […]…

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