BACOLOD CITY: Sugar plantations in central and southern Negros Occidental have been hit hard by the El Niño phenomenon, raising fears the damage could go to around a billion pesos.
Manuel Lamata, president of the United Sugar Producers Federation, the country's largest independent sugar planters' group, said he estimates that about 100,000 hectares (ha) of total 300,000 ha of sugar plantations on Negros island have been affected by drought.
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