The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) here is asking the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to allocate P2 billion for the rehabilitation of infrastructure and agriculture damaged by the recent typhoons in the province.
The PDRRMC proposal include flood mitigation projects, restoration of infrastructure such as bridges and roads, small water impounding projects, dredging of Cagayan River and Magat dam, watershed development, riverside control protection, vegetable seed subsidy and farm inputs, fingerlings and fishery inputs, and rice and corn seeds.
Governor Faustino Dy III said typhoons "Pedring" and "Quiel" devastated some major infrastructure projects in the province, agricultural crops and flooded large areas particularly near the rivers due to strong winds and heavy rains.
Some P500 million is needed for flood control projects, P200 million for small water impounding projects, P1.2 billion for dredging, and P250 million for watershed development and riverside control protection.
The rehabilitation of provincial roads needs P21.5 million, P62.8 million for provincial bridges, and another P1 million for other bridges that were destroyed by the two typhoons.
On agriculture, the PDRRMC has proposed the allocation of P37 million for the purchase of vegetable seeds, planting materials and farm inputs to be distributed to calamity-affected farmers in the province.
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