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00:00Because of the typhoon Christine, the people of Occidental Mindoro have a new calvary
00:08because of the super typhoon Leon.
00:10That's why the farmers are trying their best to save their native land, Saksisimab, Gonzales.
00:20Even though the typhoon Leon is in the north of Luzon,
00:23its effect is still felt in the province of Occidental Mindoro.
00:26There was zero visibility on the national highway earlier this afternoon because of the heavy rain.
00:31That's why these farmers in the town of Santa Cruz are trying their best to save their land.
00:41They were supposed to do this in the middle of October.
00:44But the typhoon Christine didn't work.
00:57Oh, one and a half hectares?
00:59Yes.
01:01This is what happened to their rice paddy.
01:04Half of the three hectares were damaged because of the typhoon Christine.
01:08Usually, that's around 100 cabanas for one hectare.
01:13But now, they're lucky because some of them only have 20 to 30 cabanas
01:18that they can harvest from one whole hectare.
01:21But the farmers we talked to earlier were saddened
01:25because their rice paddies were affected by the typhoon just a year ago.
01:30On the other hand, the farmers are working hard all day long.
01:34It's been a year already.
01:37We're lucky that we were able to harvest a lot of rice paddies.
01:40We were able to harvest all of them.
01:41If we didn't work hard, we wouldn't have enough rice paddies.
01:45We have to try to borrow more rice paddies.
01:48But if they have a glimmer of hope of harvesting rice paddies,
01:51others like Adeliza are still waiting.
01:54The rain didn't stop.
01:56Even if it stopped for a day, it still fell on the water.
02:00My husband went there earlier.
02:02The bottom of the rice paddies were already black.
02:05And there was a part where the rice was already sour.
02:09Adeliza's brother is now able to earn a living.
02:11But the problem is that the rice paddies will dry up because of the rain.
02:15That's why they covered the road with a tarp just like other farmers.
02:20Adeliza only experienced this in her 25 years of farming.
02:25The 100,000 pesos that she earned seems to have been paid by the typhoon.
02:29We were hoping that we would be able to pay our son's expenses.
02:32I told him that we haven't been able to harvest rice paddies yet.
02:35We will have to borrow money again to start again.
02:38If there is still money to borrow.
02:40We still have a lot of countrymen who will harvest rice paddies.
02:43The flood affected us because
02:46even though we didn't get wet,
02:48but there were a lot of rice paddies that were wet,
02:50that fell, that fell.
02:52A lot of rice paddies didn't dry up.
02:55That's why the amount of rice paddies was so big.
02:58The amount of rice paddies that we were able to harvest today
03:01is now more than P165 million.
03:04The Noveleta residents of Cavite
03:06are far from the boundary of the Leyon Tornado.
03:08But they are still busy in cleaning and tidying up
03:11from the impact of the Christine Tornado.
03:13Garbage is piled up on the roads
03:15and the rice paddies have dried up from the flood.
03:19That's why the barangay personnel and residents are helping in cleaning.
03:23Some Noveleta residents also went to Puntud
03:25to follow their relatives
03:27two days before the Day of the Dead.
03:30There are now four units of portable toilets inside.
03:33Flowers and candles are also being lit
03:35outside the gate of the cemetery.
03:38For GMA Integrated News,
03:40Mav Gonzales, your Saksi.