Kidapawan City reeling from dry spell, declares state of calamity

Kidapawan local officials have declared a state of calamity over their city, which has suffered an estimated P100 million in crop damage from a prevailing dry spell that began months earlier.
 

GMA News' Vonne Aquino reported on "Balita Pilipinas Ngayon" that four tribal communities in the city are short on water supply.


 

 

The state of calamity declaration enables Kidapawan City to use its calamity fund for the planting of P3 million worth of seedlings. — Joel Locsin/ELR, GMA News