{"id":13966,"date":"2014-06-06T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2014-06-06T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:35:38","slug":"pnoy-declares-state-of-emergency-in-cocolisap-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/06\/pnoy-declares-state-of-emergency-in-cocolisap-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"PNoy declares state of emergency in &#8216;cocolisap&#8217; areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13970\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coconut_farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13970\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coconut_farm-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Coconut Farm \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coconut_farm-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Coconut_farm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coconut Farm \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following reports of over one million coconut trees in danger of dying, President Benigno Aquino III has issued an executive order (EO) declaring a state of emergency on areas infested by coconut scale insects.<\/p>\n<p>Among the areas included in the state of emergency declaration recommended by <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Kiko Pangilinan, Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization, <\/span>are Calabarzon\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">(Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) and Basilan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;It is serious enough to ask for emergency measures&#8230; If we don&#8217;t address this, it could spread to the Bicol region, and also in the Zamboanga peninsula,&#8221; Pangilinan told ANC on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency was declared following the possibility\u00a0of a P33 billion loss in the coconut industry if the disaster is not treated.<\/p>\n<p>Pangilinan also said that several operations to manage the infestation which started in 2010, will be starting soon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;The target is to treat anywhere between 15,000-17,000 trees a day. A million trees are affected. A million is around less than 2% of the entire tree population in Calabarazon,&#8221; he\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;I hope that with the intervention, we will be able to manage this effectively and bring it down to manageable levels,&#8221; he\u00a0added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from ABS-CBN News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following reports of over one million coconut trees in danger of dying, President Benigno Aquino III has issued &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4767,4768],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-coconut-farm","tag-state-of-emergency","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}