The value of the country’s agriculture and fisheries output in the second quarter contracted by 3.3 percent as crops and livestock production dropped due to the ill effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon. The sector’s production in the April to June period amounted to P413.91 billion, about P14 billion lower than the P427.948 billion recorded in the same period last year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

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