Saturday, March 18, 2006
Floods, landslides damage P6 million crops
By Barbara Carla R. Quiero
DAVAO CITY -- More than P6 million worth of agricultural crops were damaged when landslides and flashfloods, triggered by continuous heavy downpour, struck 15 barangays in Davao City on March 2.
The consolidated damage report, released Friday by the City Agriculture's Office, showed that P6,718,098.57 million worth of crops, livestock, poultry, and fishery products were lost due to these calamities.
The 15 villages from Baguio, Calinan, Tugbok, and Toril districts were identified as affected areas.
The report also showed that a total of 99.17 hectares were damaged, 83.15 hectares of which are rice fields with the highest estimated loss of P2,603,202, followed by banana with P1,241,560.70, and mango with P1,039,305.82.
Other commodities damaged were corn, coconut, cacao, coffee, durian, lanzones, mango, assorted vegetables, rambutan, and tiger grass.
Fishery products such as hito, with an estimated value of P812,300, tilapia worth P287,500, and P10,000 worth of fresh water shrimps were also lost.
Rocelio T. Tabay, officer-in-charge of the City Agriculture's Office, said they continue to conduct surveys on the extent of the damage.
"We will submit the report to the Department of Agriculture so we can request for assistance," Tabay said Wednesday.
Tabay said that in times of calamities like La Niña, they always see to it that water sources of irrigated areas are monitored.
"We see to it that the source of water is being checked so that it would not overflow going to the rice fields," he said.
Tabay also asked farmers to regularly check their drainage system. (Sun.Star Davao/Sunnex)
(March 18, 2006 issue)
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