In Caraga, DA rolls out relief measures for farms

SAN FRANCISCO, AGUSAN DEL SUR, Philippines — Widowed farmer Nelly Boot would have spent this week harvesting palay alongside her neighbors at Barangay Patin-ay in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. Instead, her rain-fed paddies sit cracked, gray and barren. With irrigation canals dry, Boot has been reduced to carrying water by hand from a distant creek