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(Eagle News) — The damage brought by Typhoon Ompong in the country’s agriculture and infrastructure has reached to more than P18.8 billion after it hit the country a week ago, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Monday, September 24. For agriculture alone, the damage to crops and livestock reached more than P14.3 billion in Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon), Bicol region, and the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The Australian strawberry scare has spread to New Zealand with a supermarket chain announcing Sunday that needles were found in a box of the fruit sourced from the neighbouring country. The Countdown supermarket chain said it had taken a brand of Australian strawberries off the shelves after a sabotaged punnet — a plastic box — was sold in an Auckland store. The strawberries, from Western Australia state, were sold in […]
(Eagle News) — Nagpapasalamat si Dingalan, Aurora Municipal Mayor Sherwin Taay dahil zero casualty ang kanilang bayan sa naging pananalasa ng bagyong Ompong. Matapos din aniya ang halos limang araw ay normal nang nakapaglalayag ang kanilang mga mangingisda. Pero bagamat ligtas ang kaniyang mga kababayan at wala ring nasirang mga imprastraktura, hindi naman nakaligtas sa unos ang kanilang mga pananim. Ayon sa Alkalde, aabot sa 6.3 milyong halaga ng mga palay at mga gulay ang […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand’s economic growth hit a two-year-high in the second quarter on the back of a strong performance from the agricultural sector, official data showed Thursday. Statistics New Zealand said the economy expanded 1.0 percent in the three months to June 30, the biggest quarterly rise since mid-2016. The agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector was the standout performer, up 4.1 percent, with mining the only industry among the 16 measured […]
(Eagle News) — Typhoon “Ompong” damaged P14.27 billion worth of agriculture after it destroyed more than half a million hectares of farmland, according to the Department of Agriculture. The agricultural damage affected rice, corn, high value crops and livestock covering a total of 553,704 hectares. This has an estimated volume of production loss at 731,294 metric tons (MT). The DA said that the rice sector had the largest share of losses since 397,204 hectares […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse TAMPA, United States (APF) – Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs. Rising temperatures will stimulate insects’ appetites — and make some prone to reproducing more quickly — spelling danger for key staples like wheat, corn and rice which feed billions of people, researchers said Thursday. And since these three crops account for 42 percent of the calories people eat […]
(Eagle News) — Umabot na sa halos P3 milyong ang halaga ng napinsala sa sektor ng agrikultura dahil sa mga nararanasang pag-ulan. Ayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council o NDRRMC Nasa P2.9 milyong na ang naitalang halaga ng pinsala sa agrikultura dahil sa mga pag-ulan na dulot ng nagdaang bagyong Henry at habagat. Posible pa anilang magpatuloy ang maitatalang pinsala dahil paparating pa lamang ang iba pang impormasyon o ulat mula sa […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AFP)–The world’s top cocoa producer Ivory Coast said Monday it would invest nearly one billion euros over 10 years to replace forests that were razed to grow the bean. The West African country supplies two million tonnes of cocoa to the world market annually and the commodity is a mainstay of the economy. Mighty Earth, an NGO, had alleged in an October report that “many of the country’s national parks and […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP)—Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and resilient crop varieties are adopted, researchers warned on Monday. By the end of this century, less water and hotter air will combine to cut average yields of vegetables — which are crucial to a healthy diet — by nearly one-third, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A 7.2 Fahrenheit […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) — As carbon dioxide rises due to the burning of fossil fuels, rice will lose some of its protein and vitamin content, putting millions of people at risk of malnutrition, scientists warned on Wednesday. The change could be particularly dire in southeast Asia where rice is a major part of the daily diet, said the report in the journal Science Advances. “We are showing that […]
POLANCO, Zamboanga del Norte (Eagle News) — Apat na daang sako ng binhi ng palay at mais ang ipinamahagi ng lokal na pamahalaan sa ilang lugar na tinamaan ng bagyong “Vinta” sa Polanco. Ang mga naturang binhi ay ipinamahagi sa 16 na barangay kung saan mayroong pitong daan na mga magsasaka. Nagpapasalamat naman ang mga magsasaka dahil sa sinabi nilang agarang pagtugon ng kanilang hiling. (Elmie Ello, Eagle News Service)
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) –– The agricultural and infrastructural damage brought by tropical storm Urduja has now reached more than two billion pesos (P2 billion). According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) spokesperson Romina Marasigan, “Urduja” (international name Kai-Tak) damaged more than 1 billion pesos (P1-B) in agriculture, and another P1 billion in infrastructure. The storm also placed 18 areas in MIMAROPA and Region 8 under a state of calamity, including the […]
