(PAGASA 24-HOUR PUBLIC WEATHER FORECAST as of Friday, 04 October 2024) At 3:00 AM today, the center of Tropical Depression "JULIAN" {KRATHON} was estimated based on all available data at 240 km North Northwest of Itbayat, Batanes (22.6°N, 120.6°E) with maximum sustained winds of 45 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 75 km/h. It is almost stationary. Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Visayas and Mindanao. 𝗙𝗒π—₯π—˜π—–π—”π—¦π—§ π—ͺπ—˜π—”π—§π—›π—˜π—₯ π—–π—’π—‘π——π—œπ—§π—œπ—’π—‘: Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms due to ITCZ. Possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms. 𝗙𝗒π—₯π—˜π—–π—”π—¦π—§ π—ͺπ—œπ—‘π—— 𝗔𝗑𝗗 π—–π—’π—”π—¦π—§π—”π—Ÿ π—ͺπ—”π—§π—˜π—₯ π—–π—’π—‘π——π—œπ—§π—œπ—’π—‘: Light to moderate winds coming from Southwest to Southeast will prevail with slight to moderate seas (0.6 to 2.5 meters).


Sunday, May 29, 2016



Rice yield drops anew in SurSur

By Greg Tataro Jr.

TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, May 29 (PIA) – A streak of undesirable condition has continued to harm the rice industry in the province, despite the mitigating measures that had been put in place to blunt the impact of the dry spell as well as other plagues, according to Marcos Quico, chief of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAg).

Citing the adverse effect of mild El NiΓ±o followed by the infestation of “Brown Plant Hopper, Stem Borer, Rice Blasts and Rodents,” harvest had been all the more kept down, he noted.

On the “RICE INDUSTRY SITUATION” status report as of April 30, 2016, OPAg had posted a shortfall of 0.60 metric tons per hectare in just three top performing municipalities, specifically, Madrid, Carmen, and Cantilan.

Province-wide, in all three ecosystems—irrigated, rainfed, and upland—production had been badly hit as harvest was only averaging 3.15 metric tons/hectare.  In 2015, farmers in Madrid town had hit an average production of 4.83 metric tons/hectare; but during the first cropping this year, yield had gone down to as low as 2.16 metric tons/hectare, based on reports released by the same office.

Also, this year, in areas serviced by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), the target to be planted with rice was placed at 12,760 hectares, but only 12,603.79 hectares were able to be accomplished—a difference of 156.21 hectares.

The above figure was apart from the rainfed and upland areas of 1,125.61 hectares combined that were missed to be planted.

In January, this year, Quico said that in 2014, a total of 33,701 hectares were reported to have been planted as compared to only 31,059 hectares in 2015.

Worse, during the first cropping this year, only a total of 23,772.39 hectares were reported to have been planted in spite of the 24,898 hectares being targeted, it was learned. (Radyo ng Bayan-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del Sur)