Pest attack in Negros sugar farms worsens

BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — Provincial legislators in Negros Occidental on Tuesday approved a measure declaring the province under a state of calamity, giving Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson greater resources at his disposal to fight a pest that has already ravaged a vast expanse of sugarcane farms. The measure was in response to Resolution

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