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El Niño damage now over P100M

AGRICULTURAL losses due to El Niño have ballooned to P109.44 million with most of the damage incurred in rice-growing areas, the Department of Agriculture reported on Wednesday.

The department's latest El Niño bulletin said the weather pattern, which brings dry spells and droughts, had so far affected 2,177 hectares of rice fields in the Western Visayas and Zamboanga Peninsula.