DAVAO CITY—Mayor Roxanne Cabrera-Pimentel, of Tandag City, Surigao del Sur, said she would ask the city council to declare a state of calamity in the city following severe flooding that displaced thousands of people and wrought damage estimated at P60 million on rice farms alone.
She said while the city government was still making an inventory of the damage, reports from the villages said at least 1,200 hectares of rice fields had been flooded and are still.
Damage on rice lands, she said in a phone interview, could reach P60 million. “Of course there is a need to declare a state of calamity,” she said. She said she would bring it before the city council when it meets on Tuesday …
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