Yolanda-hit seaweed industry has yet to bounce back
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The country's seaweed sector is yet to recover six months after super typhoon Yolanda ravaged seaweed plantation in the country, damaging about a third of the country's total euchema supply from Palawan and Eastern Samar. Max Ricohermosa, chairman of the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippine (SIAP) said estimates of total damage wrought by super typhoon Yolanda on the country's seaweed industry ranges from ₱1.6 billion to ₱2.8 billion, involving some 6,400 hectares of seaweed plantations.
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Mozo, M. M. (2014, May 16). Yolanda-hit seaweed industry has yet to bounce back. Manila Bulletin, p. 17.
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