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Typhoon Frank's damage to the crops is estimated to reach the billion mark. Considering that
the Philippines is already having problems maintaining its rice supply, another complication adds to it thanks to Frank. The Department of Agriculture said that the losses "represent just 0.95 percent of the production target of 3.44 million metric tons for the July-September crop period." They say it won't affect the production majorly but the loss is still a loss and is still has to be covered possibly through more imports. Also, the damage Frank has dealt not only means damage to the crops, but also to the fields where crops will be planted in the future. Some 19,508 hectares have no chance of recovery and were totally destroyed meaning there is less fields for crops to be planted at. Looking at this in the long term, even with a miniscule 1% deduction in the projected production period, the effects are still big enough for the DA not to consider.
Consider the farmers working in those fields, livelihoods were also lost in the disaster. Students may be thinking that no classes due to the typhoon may be good for them, but for the rest of the country, I highly doubt they'd be enjoying as much as the students.
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Typhoon Frank really made a lot of damage to the Philippines. Properties and house were lost. Our problem in the scarcity of rice will really take its tall. Maybe there will be another price hike. Really our country has a lot of problem, but the worst thing about the disaster, was lives were lost.
These natural disasters occur when we least expect it. Because we aren't expecting it, we are unprepared, and lose property and even lives.
Thankfully, a typhoon of this caliber rarely happens, so we can take solace in the fact that an impact like this might not happen again for maybe a few more years.
this typhoon left a terrible mark in our country. it killed a lot of people( pero may mali parin ang tao) and it also decreased our production of agriculture products which makes more people suffer. i admit it before i like it when the typhoon is strong but now realizing all its effects i fell ashamed of what i was thinking of before.
Bad news for an already struggling economy. But all we can do is cut our losses and regroup.
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