Crops in rainfed areas not spared from drought

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'No crop will be spared especially if the land is totally rainfed,' Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said Sunday, March 10.Lacson pointed out that if a farmer has underground irrigation, you would think twice about using your deep well, considering the cost of fuel.The damage caused by the drought has reached P77,702,833.81 as of March 1, a report by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist to Lacson showed.

Sugar plantations, meanwhile, in central and southern Negros Occidental have been the hardest hit areas of the El Niño phenomenon, the chief agriculturist of the Sugar Regulatory Administration reported.Ma. Lourdes Almodiente, SRA chief agriculturist, said the effect of the ongoing drought in the southern part of the province is more intense.She said that they are now consolidating the data to know the impact of the drought.'We expect to release the data next week,' she added.

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