LINGAYEN–Typhoon “Lando” made life miserable to the people of Pangasinan as it claimed 12 lives, injured 16 more and exacted P2.9 billion in damages to agriculture and infrastructure, and still counting.

This was the report of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) to the Capitol last week.

Agriculture took the biggest hit which so far registered partial damages amounting to P2.3 billion that included maturing and ripening palay and already given up for lost, high-value crops of different varieties and fisheries after fish in captivity escaped from pens and cages while others had to be harvested prematurely.

The damaged infrastructure included roads that were scoured, washed out by rampaging floodwaters, bridges, public buildings, and others that were damaged.

Initial damages to houses that were totally and partially destroyed was placed at P166.2 million.

So vast was the damage exacted by the typhoon on agriculture that Gov. Amado Espino Jr. is bent on recommending to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to appropriate additional Php 50 million to Php 60 million in the regular agricultural budget of the province to fund the rehabilitation of damaged crops and farmlands.

Meanwhile, all the evacuees that reached 28,000 families at the height of the typhoon have already returned to their homes. (Leonardo Micua)

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