Three Cordillera towns under ‘state of calamity’
>> Wednesday, May 11, 2016
By
Jethro Lagasca
THREE TOWNS in the Cordillera are under state
of calamity because of El Nino, according to records of the National Disaster
Risk Reduction Management Council.
These are Alfonso
Lista of Ifugao, Sagada and Tadian towns
of Mountain Province.
In the data of Department of Agriculture
Cordillera, the amount of damages in the province of Ifugao was P16 million. No
data was given for damages in data in Sagada and Tadian.
El nino did not much
affect Benguet, the top supplier of
vegetables in the country.
For those who were
affected of El Nino, the seeds are stored at Department of Agriculture offices
waiting in time for the rainy season for farmers to recover their losses.
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