Kibungan farmers are seeking relief from concerned government agencies after their crops were damaged due to the hailstones during the weekend.
According to Kyra Cleo Ablos, who recently posted videos and photos of the hailstones, high value vegetable crops such as cabbage and potatoes and strawberries particularly in Madyamen were hardly hit following the hailstorms and heavy down pour which lasted for two hours on March 27 and March 29.
Ablos added the gardens vegetable gardens in the area where covered with thick layer of hailstones measuring at least one inch.
The municipality of Kibungan and the Province of Benguet have yet to release the extent of damages.
Hailstones occur when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze which grows by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze onto the hailstone’s surface. Dave Leprozo Jr.
