MANILA - Two successive typhoons from September 24 brought farm losses to over P10 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture's Central Action Center (DACAC).

Typhoon Pepeng caused P3.2 billion in damages in the Cordillera and Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, and Bicol.

As of posting, the typhoon was still affecting some provinces of Northern Luzon.

Rice losses due to Pepeng amounted to P3 billion, with 164,259 tons of palay lost in 126,603 hectares of farms.

Corn losses amounted to P207 million with 15,528 tons lost in 7,960 hectares.

Around 20,686 tons of high-value commercial crops, consisting of mostly of vegetables, bananas and assorted fruit trees, were lost in 3,740 hectares of land. Damages amounted to about P196 million.

Irrigation facilities damaged in Ilocos were worth P364 million.

Ondoy damages

Two weeks after Ondoy damaged farmlands in Luzon, the value of losses was at P6.8 billion.

Rice losses amounted to P5.4 billion with 313,477 tons of grain lost in 185,763 hectares of land.

Corn losses amounted to P65 million, with 2,939 tons lost in 3,123 hectares.

About P141 million worth of high value commercial crops such as vegetables, mango, banana, and papaya were lost. Some 14,149 tons of high value crops were lost in 2,146 hectares of land.

Fisheries worth P211 million were lost in 8,356 hectares of fishponds with milkfish, tilapia, prawn, fish cages and seaweed.

Moreover, facilities/equipment such as boats, gillnets, fish traps, squid jiggers, and others worth around P3 million were damaged.

The livestock and poultry sector lost a total of P41 million with the death or loss of about 12,530 head of livestock (cattle, carabaos, horse, swine, and sheep) and 84,221head poultry. In addition, facilities like poultry houses, pig pens worth P1.3 million were destroyed.

Typhoon Ondoy also damaged P895 million worth of irrigation facilities in 53,464 hectares of service area.