FIRST PHL DROUGHT REPORTS! Maguindanao, one of five provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), has not experienced rainfall in the past three weeks, with the sun giving excruciating heat. In Albay province, disaster officials are bracing for the onset of a dry spell that could trigger power outages, a drop in agricultural production and a rise in heat-related diseases, Gov. Joey Salceda said last week. The dry spell has slowly inched its way into the province, affecting close to a thousand hectares of rice fields in Daraga, Camalig, and Polangui towns, Salceda said. Rainfall dependent Mosa Saligan, a farmer in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, said farmers could not replant rice because the rice fields have remained dry since last month. In fact, the Liguasan marshland was almost dry, with what used to be the riverbed exposed due to lack of water. Saligan said most of the rice fields in Maguindanao were not irrigated and depended on rainfall. “There are some areas that are irrigated but most in the upland [areas] are without irrigation. We rely on rain that we have not experienced in a long time,” Read more: newsinfo.inquirer.net/586145/dry-spell-stalking-maguindanao-albay-farms#ixzz2wLY59NNY Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:46:38 +0000
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