Marcos: Crops to bear brunt of El Nino in PH

By Charles Dantes

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

warned crop production will bear the brunt of the El Niño phenomenon that may last until the first half of 2024 as the National Water Resources Board said water and power supply could also be affected, especially in Luzon where the Angat Dam water reserve is nearing critical level.

“The problem with the water, I think, is solvable when it comes to livestock. But we will have difficulty when it comes to crops,” Mr. Marcos said in a chance interview during the sidelines of the Livestock Philippines Expo 2023 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City yesterday.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Tues- on the planet’s surface on July 3 was logged at 17.01C by an organisation attached to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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This measurement surpasses the previous daily record (16.92C) set on July 24 last year, according to data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction going back to 1979. The world’s average air temperature,