what will happen to a rice plantation if a strong typhoon comes and heavy flooding occurs?

Farmers living in Central Luzon work quickly to harvest their rice crops ahead of Typhoon Haima. Last year, Typhoon Koppu triggered severe floods which damaged agriculture land and destroyed all their crops. © Cheryl Gagalac/IFRC

By MJ Evalarosa, IFRC

Alexis Balete, an 18-year-old farmer living in Nueva Ecija, Central Luzon, keeps one eye on the darkening sky as he harvests his rice crop. The wind is picking up, and like many farmers living in the area, he is trying to harvest as much rice as he can before Typhoon Haima makes landfall in the next few hours.

The rice field is located beside a river and was inundated by floods when heavy rains triggered by 2015’s Typhoon Koppu caused it to overflow.

“It’s not really harvest time yet, but we have to act fast,” says Alexis. “We are trying to avoid what happened last year. We were not able to harvest in time before Typhoon Koppu struck in 2015 and we lost all our crops.”

Alexis and his colleagues work hard throughout the day and are able to harvest 37 sacks of rice, which will be stored inside a warehouse until Haima passes.

According to the local weather bureau, Super Typhoon Haima is estimated to make landfall in the Cagayan area late Wednesday night as a Category 5 storm, bringing heavy rains and strong winds of up to 225 kph. Haima, which developed right after Typhoon Sarika exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility, could have significant humanitarian impact when it makes landfall on the island of Luzon. In 2015, Typhoon Koppu caused severe flooding that affected 1.2 million people and caused damage to an estimated 42,000 homes.

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