President Ferdinand Marcos has ordered the creation of a government team that would focus on mitigating the impact of the looming El Niño phenomenon, Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno of the Office of the Civil Defense said. /PDI
Marcos also wants the government, particularly the Department of Health, to focus on illnesses that people usually get during El Niño.
“In fact, we have what is called a cropping calendar which we use to plan which areas to irrigate. And in this case, we will prioritize those areas for rice planting near the [water] source,” Guillen said in the same briefing. For planting areas that are far from the water source, Guillen said the NIA had advised farmers to concentrate on high-value crops.
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