YULETIDE HARVEST. Farm-workers harvest rice in Pigkacawayan, North Cotabato to catch-up with traditional Christmas feasts and save-up for next year. Farmers say they will have difficulty finding farm-work for the next six months as the area will suffer water supply shortage for the first half of 2015. (Kenette Jean Millondaga/davaotoday.com)
December winds sweep past a farmer tossing a sack of newly harvested rice to his head in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato. (Kenette Jean Millondaga/davaotoday.com)
Saying that they have all the time of the year for military operations, a leader of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines urged all Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) generals and commanders to allow their troops to go home and celebrate Christmas with their families as the rebels would also want to have a peaceful celebration with their families and friends.
