PAG-ASA: 45 probinsya tatamaan ng tagtuyot dahil sa El Niño sa Marso 2024 | News Night
Kahit tag-ulan pa lang ngayon nagbabala na ang PAGASA na mas maraming probinsya ang tatamaan ng tagtuyot dahil sa El Niño sa susunod na taon. At posibleng maging mas matindi iyon kaysa sa naranasan noong 2018.
Ang detalye mula kay senior correspondent Lois Calderon.
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00:00 The drought or drought from El Nino will hit more widely.
00:03 The number of people expected from the former 40 provinces of August was increased to 45 now when March 2024 arrived.
00:13 Drought is the worst-case scenario, which means that the rainfall will be below normal within the next five months or less within three months.
00:22 Although we are still here in Habagat, we still have a lot of rain and we are still expecting around four to seven tropical cyclones by the end of December.
00:33 But still, there will be areas that will be potential for dry spell that will affect the El Nino that we are seeing.
00:42 Central and Western Visayas are the most likely to be affected, according to the forecast.
00:46 But even in Tilozon, El Nino is already felt according to farmers.
00:52 The El Nino's effects are really bad in Cagayan, Isabela and Bicol.
00:58 They are really having a hard time with their waterways where their crops are already drying up.
01:06 El Nino team is laying down interventions to reduce the effects of El Nino.
01:12 If it's not there, El Nino episode this year and in 2024 could be worse than last 2018.
01:19 Hopefully not, but it could be. That's all we can say. Hopefully not.
01:25 But what we are saying is that it's not worse yet to come for us. But as of now, as early as now, we are preparing for it.
01:35 The hottest temperature will be experienced in 2024, according to the forecast.
01:41 The forecast predicts that both globally and even here locally, next year could be one of the warmest years on record.
01:49 Hopefully not, but then as early as now, we can see that maybe next year, our warm and dry season, February, March, April, May, after the rainy season,
02:01 this is our heat and there will be a little rain. Maybe that's what we need to prepare.
02:08 For the economic team of President Bongbong Marcos,
02:11 the government as a whole is very much on top of this El Nino phenomenon, which will last until the first quarter of next year.
02:26 The positive thing is in the global economy, it's turning out that the production everywhere is better than expected a few months ago.
02:38 So it does, it seems to appear that the El Nino may not be as bad as we initially assumed.
02:48 There is a way that farmers are pushing for.
02:52 They say that the rice should be multiplied so that it can withstand the drying, like red rice, brown rice, and black rice.
02:59 Now, the rice that is being given is inbred.
03:03 Applied seeds, our traditional seeds that our farmers use, this is what needs to be multiplied.
03:10 Our farmers can really meet the needs of the rice, that the sweet potatoes do not need to be alternated.
03:18 If the government is really serious in helping, the subsidies, the post-harvest facilities, especially the irrigation.
03:27 Even though they will plant other crops, farmers are still asking for P15,000 subsidies and to buy rice at a more affordable price.
03:37 Lois Calderon, CNN Philippines.