date:Aug 20, 2012
Several rice fields have dried up as palay seedlings have turned yellowish green after almost a month of no rain in Bohol, considered the food basket of Central Visayas.
Water level in a major dam in Pilar town has reached critically low levels, said Larry Pamugas, acting Bohol provincial agriculturist.
Gov. Edgar Chatto has asked Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala to conduct cloud seeding operations to ease the suffering of farmers, like Perigrino Bongcales Jr., of Barangay Cabulijan, Tubig