Regions
OCD allows Kanlaon farmers to harvest crops

BACOLOD CITY — The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has allowed farmers to harvest their crops even as Kanlaon Volcano remains restless, Donato Sermeno III, regional director for Negros Island Region, said Monday.

Sermeno said the local government of La Castellana requested the OCD to allow farmers to enter the volcano's 6-kilometer danger zone radius and harvest their sugarcane.

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