BAGUIO CITY The huge backhoe rumbled as its wide claw dug into the ground, taking the hardened mud away. The digging started on Nov. 9, over a week after Typhoon Rosita battered the province of Kalinga and deluged hectares of rice farms, even burying the farms’ 1.3-kilometer communal irrigation as if it never existed.
Rice farmer Ernesto Gayyad, 52, of Tabuk City, Kalinga owns the backhoe and does the digging himself. He said it might take a week or two to finish the task, so the irrigation facility would resurface and water the rice farms again. As of Friday (Nov. 16), the work was about three-fourths done, Gayyad told the Philippine News Agency (PNA).
The rice farms span the five barangays of Tabuk CitySan Juan, Laya, Appas, Magsaysay, and Dagupan Weste.
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