Impacts of natural disasters on agriculture in

the Philippines

Introduction

Rationale
All over the world specially Philippines, has encountered various agricultural problems and one of
them is the natural disaster. Philippines suffer a great loss from typhoon damages and tons of natural
disasters that has negative impacts on the environment. Typhoon and flash flood will reduce farm
productivity by damaging farm inputs and destroying establishment and infrastructure and prevent an
increasing in farm planting, these results in the worse condition in output and productivity which will
possibly harm by the country's food security, economic losses, and income.

The Philippines is struggling to recover from last massive Typhoon Rai that caused losses worth
11.1 billion Php ($215m) to agricultural crops and farmland More than 420,000 hectares of land have
been lost to storm floods, and as many as 925,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Key staple crops like
rice, coconut and sugarcane have been wiped out across some regions of the country. The Philippines’
fisheries industry has lost over three billion’s Php ($58m) worth of fishing boats, gear, and stock (oxfam,
2022).

The typhoon most affected agricultural product is The rice sector suffered the most with reported
losses of P277.6 million with the volume of production loss pegged at 15,321 MT and 21,150 hectares of
agricultural land affected, and The corn sector sustained losses worth P69.6 million equivalent to
production loss of 4,911 MT and a total of 2,155 hectares of agricultural areas hit, and the fisheries
sector incurred losses amounting to P10.5 million covering 446 fisherfolk. It affected fisheries produce,
fishing boats and gears, fishnets and gillnets. (https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1530224/damage-to-
agriculture-hit-p-362m-rice-most-affected/amp)

leterature review
Affected rice growing areas include the provinces of Laguna, Batangas Cavite, Rizal and Quezon in
Southern Luzon; Cagayan Valley, Aurora and Bataan in northern Luzon; Aurora, Bataan; and Nueva Ecija,
Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales in central Luzon.

The department of agriculture (DA) also said that "Ondoy" ("ketsana") destroyed 1,279 tons of corn and
1,571 tons of fruits and vegetables.
It also estimated that as the value of all crops damaged reached 3.2 billion pesos (about 67.4 million U.S.
dollars).

Research Questions
1. How do natural disaster affect the farmers?
a. How do they recover after the typhoon?
b. How long will the farmers recover after the typhoon?
2. Is department of agriculture responsible for this?
a. Do they have a government support for the recovery?
b. Do government pay them for those crops that has been damaged?

Scope and Delimitation

This research preferred to highlight Philippines because this country is one of the largest producer
of agricultural product and most likely to hit by typhoon. And since it is pandemic we cannot interview
any farmer here in Philippines, so I search any articles in the internet to find a respondents for my
research questions. in July 5 2014 Tens of thousands of farmers are bringing in their first rice harvest just
six months after one of the worst typhoons to ever hit the Philippines left their fields in tatters and their
livelihoods at risk After Typhoon Haiyan hit the central Philippines on 8 November, 2013.(FAO, 2014).

october 5 2016 rice farmers in Central Luzon are seeing a glimmer of hope after successive natural
disasters swept their crop fields in 2015. About 18 900 of them who were able to re-plant their damaged
farms with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in
partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA) are now reaping their first harvest for 2016.
(https://www.fao.org/philippines/news/detail/en/c/413861/)

Benefits and Beneficiaries

I am confident that this phenomenological study would add to the usefulness and significance of
educating nonreaders especially in far-flung schools it is through this study that I was able to obtain
information about teachers daily communications in handling nonreaders, their emotions hardships,
achievements, dedication and commitment as well as the different problems they met while teaching
non-readers and how they cope with these unfavorable experiences

am confident that the result of this study would add to the knowledge about the usefulness of Social
Representations Theory as lens of investigating a social phenomenon. Moreover, this knowledge would
be helpful in attaining the quality education goal by the Department of Education Thus, this study is a
premeditated and strategic way of promoting quality education in our country. It is not only that the
non-readers who will be benefitted in this study. Moreover, to the teachers in general who willingly
share their experiences in handing non-readers on the sense that they can pour their deepest and
sincerest sentiments in teaching non-maders. Lastly, this study would somehow assist other researchers
in the future who are interested to conduct a study related to teaching non-readers in for ung schools. It
is lend them a hard on identifying areas of teaching non-readers in public schools that needs further
study and investigation