Fishermen in Bicol region, which was badly hit by Ulysses and Rolly, are worried that if they won’t be able to recover from the recent typhoons fast enough and fix their boats, they will stay hungry until February next year.
Lagonoy Gulf Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management...
Typhoon Ulysses has already incurred nearly P4 billion worth of damage to the country’s agriculture sector, with rice as the most affected crop.
Data from the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) showed that as of November 18, the damage and losses...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will make sure that the price freeze on some agricultural and fishery commodities is “strictly” observed in Luzon amid the declaration of state calamity in the region, which was badly battered by a series of typhoons.
As this happens, the agency has also...
Quinta and Rolly's damage to agri sector now at P9B
Rescuers evacuate residents from their flooded homes after Typhoon Vamco hit, in Marikina City, suburban Manila on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
Thousands of farmers and fishermen in Quezon province and...
The combined damage of Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly to the agriculture sector rose to nearly P8 billion, affecting 89,259 farmers and fisherfolk and 162,693 hectares of agricultural areas.
The latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and...
The damage and losses that Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly incurred to the agriculture sector and to farmers should be way bigger than the government estimates, since the Department of Agriculture (DA) only looks at actual damages and not the consequential damages.
Asis Perez,...
The agriculture sector may be severely battered by Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly, but the country is still seen to end the year with higher palay output of 20 million metric tons (MT).
"We hope and pray that in the remaining eight weeks of the year, we will be spared from strong...
Just due to Super Typhoon Rolly alone, the agriculture sector already incurred as much as P3 billion worth of damage and losses, bringing the sector's total damage in the span of two weeks to P6 billion.
Based on the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
Agriculture, the country's most promising sector for this year, is now reeling from damage and losses nearly P5 billion after being hit by two strong typhoons in the span of two weeks.
The latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council...
Typhoon Quinta flattens a banana plantation in Dayap, Pola, Oriental Mindoro when it made its fifth landfall before heading to the West Philippine Sea on Oct. 25, 2020. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi, in his concurrent capacity as Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will withdraw nearly P800 million from its Quick Response Fund (QRF) to assist farmers, fishermen, and livestock raisers that were severely affected by Typhoon Quinta.
Typhoon Quinta flattens a banana plantation in Dayap, Pola, Oriental Mindoro when it made its...
Typhoon Quinta already left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), but its damage to the agriculture sector is still rising.
As of late Wednesday, Quinta's damage and losses on agri-fisheries, particularly in Regions I, IV-A, V and VI, already amounted to a total of P401.73 million,...
