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Negrenses assured of sufficient rice stocks
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Oct 10, 2009 - 5:25:54 AM
BACOLOD
CITY, Oct. 10 (PNA) -- Vice Governor Emilio Yulo III assured Negrenses
of enough supply of rice both from commercial traders and the National
Food Authority (NFA).
Yulo’s
pronouncement came following the onslaught of tropical storm Ondoy and
typhoon Pepeng that affected over four million Filipinos with Luzon as
the hardest hit or 829,498 families, the National Disaster Coordinating
Council (NDCC) said.
The
estimated cost of damage to infrastructure and agriculture caused by
the Philippines' worst flooding in four decades has also increased to
P9.7 billion, the NDCC added.
Yulo
said that calamity funds have been readied for the province and
respective local government units (LGUs) use in case calamities would
hit the province.
Several
areas in southern Negros Occidental were also flooded due to Ondoy that
spawned heavy rains that forced several families to vacate their houses
and sought refuge in high areas.
However,
no landslides, fatalities and casualties were reported as a result of
the two howlers, except that several houses were damaged. (PNA)
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