Due to the typhoon, Bicol farmers have lost yet another opportunity to make ends meet. They were supposed to harvest their produce in the months of October and November only to find their palay buried deep in flood waters.
Those who want to take the admission exams for the University of the Philippines (UP) need to wait for another year.
Since the re-imposition of curfew hours in Davao City to limit public activities at night due to COVID-19, the commuting public has found this a difficult matter to adjust to.
Her family of 12 only eats two full meals a day, and most times it is just rice doused in soy sauce or salt given to them by their neighbor.
Tenant farmers in Mindanao who practice conventional farming have been suffering the “worst effects” of the Republic Act No. 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), according to a research of farmers-scientists network, Masipag Mindanao.