Philippine farmers face financial ruin after Super Typhoon Pepito
Eduardo Santos is one of many Philippine farmers facing financial ruin after his rice crops were flooded in the wake of Super Typhoon (Man-Yi). Heavy rain caused a earthen dike to collapse in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, leading to the flooding of houses and up to 200 hectares of rice farms. "We don't know how we will start again," Santos tells AFP. "All [the crops] were washed away so we don't know how to start again."
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Eduardo Santos is one of many Philippine farmers facing financial ruin after his rice crops were flooded in the wake of Super Typhoon (Man-Yi). Heavy rain caused a earthen dike to collapse in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, leading to the flooding of houses and up to 200 hectares of rice farms. "We don't know how we will start again," Santos tells AFP. "All [the crops] were washed away so we don't know how to start again."
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00:30We were really scared because my house and my father's house were supposed to be hit by the tsunami.
00:59When the water level went down, I decided to build my house until I could afford to pay for it.
01:08We fled to the neighborhood to be on safety.
01:17We were really scared. We thought that the tsunami would hit us.
01:25But it didn't, and the water level went down.
01:30We were there in the distance.
01:32We don't know how we're going to start now.
01:36What we lost was rice and vegetables.
01:41Our vegetables were there, but the rice was here.
01:44They were both destroyed, so we don't know how we're going to start now.
01:49That's why we're asking for help from the government.
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01:58We were hoping that it wouldn't hit us because of the strong winds.
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