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Tag: Dry spell

Make dried fish while the sun shines

With the prevailing dry spell, fishermen and dried fish dealers have all the reasons to come out and ply their trade.

Hellish! Whole streets burn as fires rage around Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, United States—Rampaging wildfires around Los Angeles have killed at least two people, officials said Wednesday as terrifying blazes leveled whole streets, torching cars...

Prepare for La Niña, Marcos urges LGUs

President Marcos urged all local government units (to brace for the La Niña phenomenon following the ongoing dry spell as he led the distribution...

Gov’t disburses P487m to assist drought-hit areas

The government has disbursed some P487.1 million for assistance regions hard-hit by the El Niño dry spell, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction...

‘Strong, mature’ El Niño now in country; Damages now hitting P1.3 b — gov’t

The damage to agriculture due to the dry spell induced by the El Niño has reached P1.31 billion mark, according to the Task Force...

El Niño omen

Farmer Raymond dela Cruz, 33, checks a portion of his dry rice field along the Pulilan-Baliuag Bypass Road in Bulacan on Monday. Dela Cruz...

El Niño damages breach P150 million

The local agriculture sector has sustained P151.3 million worth of damage and losses on the back of the ongoing El Niño, even as the...

Pagasa: Metro Manila, other provinces experiencing ‘dry spell’

Despite colder days, Metro Manila is experiencing dry spell characterized by below-normal rainfall for three consecutive months or way-below normal rainfall in the past...

Solon foresees increased rice production despite prolonged dry spell

A legislator on Wednesday expressed optimism that the country’s rice production would further improve this year despite the expected prolonged dry spell, due to...

‘More funds for water impounding projects to reduce dry spell impact’

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is working on a water management plan to help reduce the impacts of the dry spell on farmers and...

Dry spell, drought to hit 38 provinces, says PAGASA

Some 36 provinces may experience a dry spell while at least two provinces may suffer from drought by December as the country braces for...

Dry spell leads to wildfires across South Korea

Firefighters were scrambling Monday to contain wildfires across South Korea as a dry spell led to blazes in multiple regions, including on a mountain...

GDP grew 5.5% in Q2, the slowest in 4 years

The economy grew 5.5 percent in the second quarter, the slowest in four years, as the El Niño dry spell, delayed approval of the...

Agriculture production contracted 1.27% in Q2

Agriculture production shrank 1.27 percent in the second quarter year-on-year, pulled down by lower rice, corn, coconut and sugarcane harvests amid the prolonged El...
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