Poor crop prospects

Hoping for rain in Makilala / Kidapawan

What have we groaned when in January this year, the rain did not stop. And now we have the opposite: We desperately need rain!

Especially in the area around Makilala / Kidapawan, at the foot of Mt. Apo, drought is spreading. Whenever the sky will get darkened  in the last time, many farmers  were hoping for rain - which unfortunately did not happen. It is once again the EL NINO-time. And it will last - as we have already seen it several times - until about June.

Should it really take so long, then the harvest prospects are poor. Everything will dry up. But some clever farmers have found a way - if they have access to a river, a stream, or at least to a water hole: A water-pressure pump is purchased. And so the fields - rice fields  or rubber trees or .. or...  - are irrigated just as long as water is available.And 100 meters of hose and more  is not uncommon.

For the hardware business a great deal. Within a few days, all new and used pressure pumps were sold out.

With best regards

Ludwig from Davao