Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Three Cordillera towns under ‘state of calamity’


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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