Sugar producers urge emergency cloud seeding as El Niño threatens crops

BACOLOD CITY — The United Sugar Producers’ Federation of the Philippines (Unifed) is calling for emergency cloud seeding operations to save sugarcane crops from worsening dry conditions brought on by the onset of El Niño. In letters to Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) Administrator Pablo Luis Azcona, and Negros Occidental Gov.

By clopez