KIDAPAWAN CITY — At least 28 of the 37 villages in M’lang town of North Cotabato are experiencing dry spell prompting the Sangguniang Bayan to place the entire town under a state of calamity. He said a total of 4,250 hectares of rice and corn fields had parched, and the crops could no longer recover. M’lang’s remaining nine villages, which incurred less damage from the dry spell, had received assistance from the local government. Piñol said they were giving fuel subsidy and water pumps to farmers whose crops still had a 70-percent chance of recovery. All affected farmers validated by the MDRRMO and found to have lost their crops to dry spell would be given seedlings and fertilizer assistance, he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 27, 2019 08:26 UTC