PLARIDEL, BULACAN: Rice farmers in Bulacan have started planting crops amid a dry spell, hoping the rains would augment the meager irrigation supply in the province.

Santiago Bernardo, a 58-year old farmer from this town, said the planting season usually begins in late June or July but it was only in the first week of August that they started because of lack of irrigation.

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