BAGUIO
CITY-- The Cordillera region has reported a P4.13-billion damage in
agriculture, fisheries and irrigation due to Typhoon "Ompong",
according to the Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council
last week.
Based
on a situation report dated Sept. 21, CDRRMC chairman Ruben Carandang said that
the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera recorded the biggest PHP4.1 billion
damage to agriculture that include rice, corn, high value crops, livestock and
poultry as well as agricultural infrastructure projects.
Corn crops recorded the most damage
at P2.88 billion followed by rice at P807 million; high value crops at P336
million; livestock and poultry at P11.5 million and agricultural infrastructure
involving 41 projects with P68.2 million.
Fisheries recorded a damage of P22,997,250
while the National Irrigation Administration Cordillera reported P215,000.
Some of the initial damage report was reported
from September 17 to 19. Reports are still continuously being received by the
CDRRMC.
Agricultural
damage per province
Ifugao
province, known for its rice terraces, has reported the most damage at P1.43
billion involving 40,000 hectares of farmland and affecting 34,183 farmers.
This is followed by Kalinga, the region’s rice granary, at P1.19 billion, with
damage to 31,000 hectares of mostly rice production areas, affecting 20,564
farmers.
Mountain Province incurred P769 million damage
on some 10,000 hectares affecting 37,083 farmers; Apayao, P498 million on
27,000 hectares, affecting 25,299 farmers; Benguet at P179 million on vegetable
plantation areas affecting 25,886 farmers; and Abra with P34.8 million
affecting 24,588 farmers.
CDRRMC chairman Ruben Carandang, also Office of
Civil Defense Cordillera regional director, reported that as of 8 a.m.
Thursday, 49 road sections in the Cordillera were still closed to traffic due
to road slips, road collapse, landslide, mudslide, debris flow, rock slide and
falling trees.
As of Sept. 19, the CDRRMC has received reports
of 14,538 damaged houses with 631 totally damaged. Abra province recorded the
most number of totally damaged houses with 254; Benguet, 166; Baguio,
83;Kalinga, 74; Ifugao, 24; Mountain Province, 17 and Apayao, 13.
The Dept. of Education in Cordillera also
reported that a total of 194 schools incurred infrastructure damages, with 161
totally damaged classrooms -- 63 in Apayao, 51 in Abra, and 47 in Kalinga .
There were also 445 partially damaged classrooms.
The Department of Health also reported that
there were 10 health facilities damaged by “Ompong”.
State
of calamity
The
CDRRMC chief also reported that the towns of Mayoyao and Aguinaldo in Ifugao
have declared state of calamity on September 15 and 16, respectively.
The
provinces of Kalinga and Apayao have declared state of calamity on Sept. 16,
while Mountain Province on Sept. 19. The provinces of Abra and Benguet
have earlier declared a state of calamity due to the monsoon rains in August.
The province of Ifugao
was declared under state of calamity on Sept. 19, but no document has yet been
released.
Power
restoration
The
CDRRMC also reported power in 129 villages in Baguio City were restored;
Benguet at 17.86 percent or 25 out of the 140 barangays in 13 municipalities.
Mountain Province is luckier with power fully
restored in all barangays, while power in Ifugao has been restored in 10 out of
the 11 municipalities.
In Kalinga, power has been fully restored in
Tabuk city, the towns of Rizal and Tinglayan as of September 20, while power in
four other municipalities have yet to be restored.
Abra has still 7.48 percent of power restored
or 22 out of the 294 barangays.
On
the other hand, Apayao has yet “to see the light”.
Casualties
As
of 5 p.m. Sept. 20, Cordillera recorded 79 deaths and 50 missing persons.
The
figure is mostly in Barangay Ucab, where a massive landslide occurred, which
recorded 31 deaths and 41 persons missing.
The Department of the Interior and Local
Government Cordillera (DILG) is still verifying two deaths to find out if they
are due to typhoon “Ompong”.
The region recorded 73 injured persons with 11
still recuperating in the hospital. -- PNA
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