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Farmers in Benguet do not anticipate significant crop losses as a result of frost damage.

This, according to the Department of Agriculture in the Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR), is the result of vegetable producers developing a strategy to prevent frost damage to plants throughout the winter months.

“Farmers nowadays have been accustomed to dealing with frost because it has existed since before they were even born. To deal with the freezing water before the sunshine reaches the crops, the farmers’ approach, in this case, is to sprinkle water on the frost-affected crops using either power sprayers or rain bursts “In a news release distributed to the Philippine News Agency in Monday, the DA-CAR made a statement.

The frost phenomenon occurs yearly in high-elevation regions in the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province when the mountain region’s temperature falls to zero, typically in the months of December, January, and February.

According to data gathered by DA-CAR, the “andap,” or frost, was seen in Benguet on January 24 in the grassland of Mt. Pulag in Kabayan and on January 26 in the vegetative regions of Paoay, Atok, and Madaymen, Kibungan.

In Bauko, Mountain Province, the incident was also reported in Balicanao, Sadsadan, Mt. Data, Pactil, and Monamon Sur.

According to Pagtan, the towns have not yet provided them with a formal damage report.

The municipal agriculture offices (MAO), according to the DA, are actively monitoring the frost conditions in their region on behalf of the local government entities.

Dr. Cameron Odsey, the director of DA-CAR, stated that “they (farmers) would spray the plants using the water sprinkler at daybreak, before the sun rises, to melt the ice and avoid the sun’s ray from injuring the foliage,” in an earlier interview.

The farmers just remove the damaged outer leaves, and the remaining leaves are still sold, he continued.

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