Zamboanga del Norte, one of the country's poorest provinces, takes two-pronged approach in food production to cope with El Niño phenomenon.
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, Philippines – With its food production normally 5-7% short of its consumption, farmers here were urged to plant early and to allocate 200 hectares to produce rice and corn seeds if the province has to survive the adverse effects of the looming El Niño phenomenon.
Earlier, the Office of the Civil Defense warned the newly created Task Force El Nino that based on its data in the past two years, Zamboanga del Norte is likely to bear the brunt of adverse climate effects including that of the El Nino phenomenon. In the Philippines, its effects include the increased likelihood of below-normal rainfall that may bring droughts. However, it may also bring above-normal rainfall conditions in the western part of the country during southwest monsoon orCastillon however denied that the high heat index that has been felt in Zamboanga de Norte from April and most likely until June is not associated with El Nino.
Yet from next month to November, she said we can expect 11 to 14 more typhoons though only two or three of these may get near or directly hit Zamboanga del Norte because the track of typhoons is usually going up. But 61-year-old farmer Lito Dino is even more worried because irrigation water has not reached his rice field for several months now, and he was already relying on rainfall.
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