BACOLOD City – Calls for a cloud seeding to induce precipitation over the province were again renewed despite the light rains experienced in some parts of Negros Occidental, including its capital, Bacolod City, over the weekend.
The rains were insufficient to arrest the dry weather, according to 5th district Congressman Emilio Yulo III.
“BSWM (Bureau of Soils and Water Management) you claimed that we don’t have rain clouds here; then what is this? Have mercy on our small planters,” Yulo said in his social media post with pictures of rain clouds in his district.
According to Yulo, the BSWM should allow cloud seeding operations to save the crops in the province.
Last week, Yulo expressed his dismay after the BSWM and the Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas (DA-6) did not recommend cloud seeding be conducted in the province.
According to the BSWM, conducting cloud seeding would damage around 20,000 mango trees in San Carlos City and another 5,000 trees in neighboring Guimaras Island. (Watchmen Daily Journal)/PN
