Agri losses from Supertyphoon Carina, habagat reach P4.7B

The country’s farm sector lost P4.73 billion worth of agricultural commodities due to the combined effects of the southwest monsoon (“habagat”) and Supertyphoon “Carina” (international name: Gaemi), which battered the country last month. The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) final bulletin on losses from the weather disturbances, which was released on Wednesday, covered 12 regions. It