Baguio City, Aug. 5 -- The Department of Agriculture in the Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR) is set to distribute standby hybrid rice and corn seed to farmers affected by recent weather disturbances.

Ellyn Virador, DA-CAR's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management focal person, said on Thursday that the agency has PHP29.88 million worth of hybrid rice and yellow corn seeds prepositioned at the DA Research Outreach Station in Apayao.

This includes 4,621 packs of hybrid rice seeds at 3-kg. each and 4,726 bags of yellow corn seeds at 9-kg. each.

They are ready to be distributed to farmers whose plants were damaged by the three tropical cyclones and the southwest monsoon experienced in the region for about three weeks.

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