DA assures 'interventions' to ease P1.94B crop damage from 'Egay'

By Kristina Maralit

Aug 01, 2023 5:47 pm

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has assured that all kinds of interventions have been put in place but stressed that there is a need to still discuss ways by which the impact of the estimated P1.94 billion damage caused by Super Typhoon 'Egay' to the country's crops could really be mitigated.

In a briefing in Malacanang on Tuesday, Agriculture Undersecretary Mercedita Sombilla said that of the P1.94 billion damage, P950 million were in the rice sector while P730 million were for destroyed cornfields.

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