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MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Karding (International identify: Noru), which wreaked havoc within the nation early final week, destroyed greater than P3-billion value of crops and agricultural merchandise, in accordance to the Department of Agriculture (DA).
In a bulletin, the DA’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center stated agricultural losses rose to P3.12 billion as of Monday, protecting 158,117 metric tons (MT) of merchandise on 170,762 hectares (ha) of cropland within the Cordillera Administrative Region, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon), Bicol Region, and Western Visayas.
The DA additionally reported that at the least 108,594 farmers and fishers had been affected by Karding.
“Affected commodities include rice, corn, cassava, abaca, high value crops, livestock and poultry, and fisheries. Damage has also been incurred in agricultural infrastructures, machineries and equipment,” it famous.
The rice sector was the worst hit because it incurred damage amounting to P2.05 billion with the affected space spanning 163,162 ha, and the quantity of manufacturing loss pegged at 134,205 MT.
Corn trailed behind rice as essentially the most typhoon-affected crop with P65.4 million value of agricultural damage and losses on 2,003 ha of land, and a quantity of manufacturing loss totaling to 2,635 MT.
The DA earlier warned customers of a looming enhance of as a lot as 20 % within the retail costs of rice and greens after Karding devastated the nation’s farm sector.
Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban stated there could also be a rise of 15 to 20 % in the price of meals objects, as a result of the rice-producing area of Central Luzon suffered the brunt of the storm.
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