Floods destroy P5.2M worth of crops in NCotabato

Rampaging flashfloods swept away more than P5 million worth of harvestable crops in 10 barangays in North Cotabato’s Kabacan town following three days of heavy rains that started over the weekend.

Kabacan’s municipal agriculture office pegged to P5.2 million its initial estimate of the crops destroyed by the flashfloods.

Kabacan’s disaster risk management council, in a statement, said the flashfloods devastated 707 hectares of rice and corn farms sprawled in the 10 affected barangays.