Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1Presented
2Philippine
Outline
1.
1. Background
Background Information
Information
2.
2. Impacts
Impacts of
of Drought
Drought
3.
3. Adaptation
Adaptation Strategies
Strategies
4.
4. Drought
Drought and
and Early
Early Warning
Warning System
System
Background information
The Philippines
a natural disaster-prone country
Major
El
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66
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Year
96
01
06
Tracks of tropical cyclones that formed in the Western North Pacific (WNP)
during the period 1948-2006 1728 TC ( 1148 entered the PAR) 66% of TC in in
WNP enter or formed in the PAR
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98
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Y E A R
Impacts to Agriculture
Drought
Declining Groundwater
Level
4.56
3.46
4.81
3.95
2.9
3.88
3.14
2.24
0
1996
1997
1998
-5
-6.6
-10
1999
2000
2001
2003
2004
2005
2006
El Nino
11000
10000
El Nino
El Nino
12000
El Nino
9000
8000
7000
6000
5000
82
84
86
88
90
Year
92
94
96
98
Impacts of drought
Crop failure
Reduced irrigated areas
Actual monthly inflows compared with the normal values (1968-1998) for Angat
reservoir in Luzon during selected El Nio years (million cubic meters).
1991-1992
Month
1997-1998
Actual
Normal
% of
Normal
Actual
Normal
% of
Normal
October
68.0
304
22
90.2
304
30
November
181.0
291
62
43.4
291
15
December
113.0
211
53
86.9
211
41
January
62.0
101
61
52.0
101
51
February
29.0
57
51
28.0
57
49
March
15.0
51
29
20.9
51
41
Total
468.0
1015
46
321.4
1015
31.6
Impacts on Irrigation
140,000
Production/Harvested Area
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
1
1996
1997
1998
1999
Production (M T)
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Impacts on Hydropower
Year
Quarter
1997
77.98
57.38
-20.60
26.4
85.76
64.84
-20.92
24.4
139.61
47.44
-92.17
66.0
133.59
34.61
-98.98
74.1
77.98
27.50
-50.48
64.7
85.76
35.22
-50.54
58.9
1998
10-Yr. Ave
(GWH)
Actual
Generation
(GWH)
Difference
% Reduction
List of Drought Events in the Philippines During the Period 1968 - 1998
Date of Occurrence
Areas Affected
Damages
1. 1968-1969
Total of 5x105 mt
of rice and corn production
2. 1972-1973
3. 1977-1978
4. 1982-1983
Oct. 1982 March 1983
Apr. 1983 Sept. 1983
5. 1986-1987
Oct. 1986 March 1987
6. 1989-1990
Oct. 1989 March 1990
7. 1991-1992
8. 1997-1998
Responses
Adaptation Strategies
1. Utilization of drought and
submergence tolerant rice varieties
(2008-dry season)
GMA-RICE
2.Useofimprovedcropvarietiesthatare
resistanttopestanddiseases
(2006 2007)
BureauofAgriculturalResearch(BAR)andPhilRice
BureauofAgriculturalResearchandCLSU
P5.0M
Source: BSWM
Adaptation Strategies
3.SustainableSystemofIrrigated
Agriculture(SSIA)
P50.0M(20082010)
NationalIrrigationAdministration
DepartmentofEnvironmentand
NaturalResources
Source: BSWM
AdaptationStrategies
4.LOCALIZEDIRRIGATION(DRIPIRRIGATION
waterisappliedbywettingonlyapartof
thesoilinthefieldthroughemitter.
Highlyefficientaswaterisconveyed
throughapipesystem;
Waterisapplieddirectlytoeachplant
suchthatonlythesoilneareachplant
iswetted;
Facilitatesfertigation andthus,could
increaseyieldby20%to70%
DRIP IRRIGATION
Suitableinsteepandundulating
slopes,andsandysoils
Source: BSWM
AdaptationStrategies
5. NIA has embarked a program to repair and rehabilitate
more than 300,000 ha of unserviceable irrigated
farmlands
2006 2010
Diversion Dams
Storage Dams
Source: BSWM
AdaptationStrategies
6. Intensifyestablishmentofrainwater
harvestingstructures(e.g.SWIP)
P1.5B(2008 2010)
BureauofSoilsandWatermanagement
7.Monitoring,provisionofshallowtubewells,
andfingerlingdispersaltovulnerableareas
withhighimpacttoInlandaquaculture
P35.5M
BureauofFisheriesandAquaticResources7
Source: BSWM
AdaptationStrategies
8. NIA has embarked a program to repair and rehabilitate
more than 300,000 ha of unserviceable irrigated
farmlands
2006 2010
Diversion Dams
Storage Dams
Source: BSWM
AdaptationStrategies
9. Intensifyestablishmentofrainwater
harvestingstructures(e.g.SWIP)
P1.5B(2008 2010)
BureauofSoilsandWatermanagement
10. Monitoring,provisionofshallowtube
wells,andfingerlingdispersaltovulnerable
areaswithhighimpacttoInland
aquaculture
P35.5M
BureauofFisheriesandAquaticResources
B.
ANALYSIS/ASSESSMENT
METHODOLOGIES AND
PROCEDURES
NEAR REAL-TIME
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
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