Dry spell affects 23 provinces

The Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday it is continuously providing farmers with concrete interventions to mitigate the effects of the El Nino phenomenon, as it intensified monitoring and reporting on drought incidence nationwide.

Lawyer Emerson U Palad, DA Undersecretary for Operations and spokesperson, said that as of April 23, there were 23 provinces that were directly affected by drought and 31 provinces affected by the prolonged dry spell.