THE Department of Agriculture will distribute drought resilient vegetable and high-value crops seeds in Western Visayas and the Ilocos Regions as well as the Zamboanga Peninsula to help farmers recover from the damage and losses due to the dry spell stoked by El Niño.
Promotion of drought-resistant crops and pest-control efforts are also underway to assist farmers in areas suffering from low rainfall levels. The dry has also impacted 1,263 hectares of standing corn crops or 0.11 percent of the total target area planted, while the production loss of 2,897 MT is 0.06 percent of target production for the 2024 dry cropping season.
The DSWD signed a memorandum of understanding with national government agencies and local governments to officially launch Project LAWA and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished through cash-for-training and -work. The MOU will pave the way towards a stronger partnership of the DSWD, the Department of the Interior and Local Government , the DA, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples , and the United Nations World Food Programme in implementing and monitoring Project LAWA at BINHI in selected localities affected by El Niño.
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