TABUK CITY, Kalinga: Local officials and agriculture industry stakeholders are alarmed over the reported conversion of agricultural lands for residential, commercial and industrial uses, which might affect the city's stature as the rice granary of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in the future.

Mayor Darwin Estrañero disclosed that this year alone, more than 200 hectares of agricultural lands in different parts of the city had been converted for such purposes, reducing the area being tilled by farmers to produce rice and other agricultural crops that sustain the rice self-sufficiency of the Cordillera region.

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