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Better rice varieties to help Central Luzon farmers vs climate change

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THE effects of climate change have become hurdles in the regular farm cycles of our farmers, as unprecedented amounts of rainfall and severe dry weather conditions seem to become the norms rather than the exceptions.

THE effects of climate change have become hurdles in the regular farm cycles of our farmers, as unprecedented amounts of rainfall and severe dry weather conditions seem to become the norms rather than the exceptions.

Every year, rice farmers in Central Luzon, the country’s rice granary region, experience heavy damage to their crops and with typhoons getting stronger each year, the damage to rice and other agricultural crops have reached unbelievable numbers.

In 2015 alone, Typhoon Lando damaged at least P5 billion worth of crops in Central Luzon. The Department of Agriculture (DA) data showed that some P4.8 billion of the damage was on the region’s rice crops and just before 2015 ended, some P438 million was recorded as damage to rice crops due to the flooding brought by Typhoon Nona.

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