(PAGASA 24-HOUR PUBLIC WEATHER FORECAST as of Monday, 11 November 2024) At 3:00 AM today, the center of Typhoon "NIKA" {TORAJI} was estimated based on all available data at 120 km East Southeast of Casiguran, Aurora (15.9°N, 123.2°E) with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h and gustiness of up to 150 km/h. It is moving West Northwestward at 20 km/h. TROPICAL CYCLONE OUTSIDE PAR AS OF 3:00 AM TODAY SEVERE TROPICAL STORM YINXING (2422) (FORMERLY "MARCE") LOCATION: 880 KM WEST OF NORTHERN LUZON (18.5°N, 112.2°E) MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 110 KM/H NEAR THE CENTER GUSTINESS: UP TO 135 KM/H MOVEMENT: SOUTHWESTWARD AT 15 KM/H TROPICAL STORM MAN-YI (2424) LOCATION: 3,555 KM EAST OF CENTRAL LUZON (15.2°N, 154.8°E) MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 85 KM/H NEAR THE CENTER GUSTINESS: UP TO 105 KM/H MOVEMENT: EASTWARD SLOWLY TROPICAL DEPRESSION LOCATION: 1,685 KM EAST OF EASTERN VISAYAS (11.4°N, 141.2°E) MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 45 KM/H NEAR THE CENTER GUSTINESS: UP TO 55 KM/H MOVEMENT: WEST NORTHWESTWARD AT 35 KM/H 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: 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 Localized Thunderstorms. Possible flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms.


Friday, June 17, 2022

Animal disease molecular laboratory ng DA, binuksan sa Caraga region

LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN -- Mas mapapadali na ang surveillance at detection ng mga animal diseases sa Caraga region dahil sa pagbubukas ng Animal Disease Molecular Laboratory ng Department of Agriculture  (DA) sa Barangay Taguibo, Butuan City ngayong buwan. 

Naniniwala si DA Caraga regional executive director Engr. Ricardo M. Oñate, na ito ay malaking tulong upang lalo pang maisulong ang livestock industry ng rehiyon, maging ang kalapit lugar nito at sa buong bansa.

“Ang naranasan natin noon na tatakbo pa tayo sa GenSan, Cagayan at central office para sa mga samples natin, ngayon ang mga diseases kagaya ng african swine fever, hog kolera, avian influenza lahat dito na masusuri,” ayon ni director Oñate.

Ang nasabing pasilidad ay isang katuparan upang mas maiangat pa ang kaalaman ng ahensya lalo na ang kapasidad gamit ang Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction o RT-PCR.

Ayon kay Dr. Esther Cardeño, ang hepe ng Regional Animal Diagnostic Laboratory ng DA Caraga, ang diagnoses technique ay pwedeng mag-identify ng bacteria at Viral Deoxyribonucleic Acid o DNA at Ribonucleic Acid o RNA.

Ayon kay Dr. Cardeño, “this is not just an indentification of the virus, bacteria or any parasite but we are dealing on the dna level of diagnosis.”

Dagdag pa ni Cardeño, sa pamamagitan ng molecular laboratory, maari na silang makapagbigay ng laboratory services para sa African Swine Fever, Classical Swine Fever o Hog Cholera, Avian Influenza, Porcine Parvo Virus, Porcine Respiratory Syndrome, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneunomia at Surra.

Ang molecular laboratory ay magbibigay serbisyo at makatutulong sa mga farmers at hog raisers at pati na rin sa mga studyante at researchers.

“Malaking tulong ito para sa lahat ng magsasaka at sa kabuuang mamamayan sa Caraga region,” dagdag ni director Oñate.

Ang proyekto ay nagkakahalaga ng 7.2 million pesos. (NCLM, PIA Caraga)