Agriculture officials are now conducting dialogues with onion farmers in this province with regard to the destruction being caused by army worms to their crops.
Agriculture officials are now conducting dialogues with onion farmers in this province with regard to the destruction being caused by army worms to their crops.
Ariel Alejo, provincial crop protection officer of the Office of Provincial Agriculture (OPA), on Wednesday said their office is threshing out with farmers all assistance that the government can extend to affected farmers in different towns and cities of Nueva Ecija. “We will try to salvage whatever we can (referring to crops),” Alejo said.
Violeta Vargas, city agriculturist, reported that army worms have damaged at least 1,181 hectares of onion and garlic farms as of March 4. The cost of damage was estimated at PHP139, 850,172.
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