- GILBERT BAYORAN
Amid the extreme summer heat, 5th District Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo III is asking the Department of Agriculture, Sugar Regulatory Administration, and the provincial government of Negros Occidental to prepare for the eventual cloud seeding.
“We are in the middle of planting and cultivation, particularly in the sugar industry, and getting this extreme heat and probably, a dry spell in the coming weeks, will have a drastic effect in our agriculture,” Yulo said in a statement.
Yulo appealed to the DA, the SRA, and the province to “come up with a plan and start preparing for scheduled cloud-seeding to ensure that the sugar industry will not suffer from the extreme weather condition”.
He said that efforts are being done to ensure that the sugar industry increases its productivity after a low output in the last crop year.
“We need to make sure that these efforts will not go to waste because we are not prepared to combat the effects of a dry spell which is totally beyond the control of our farmers,” Yulo said./GB
