LEGAZPI CITY, May 10 -- The Albay Provincial Agriculture Office has adopted the 2023 El Nino mitigation and adaptation plan of the Department of Agriculture (DA) under the leadership of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., who also sits as DA Secretary.

In an interview Wednesday, Lorena Quising, Albay provincial information officer, said Albay will create a task force to lead the preparedness, response and mitigation measures following the El Nino alert which will likely occur in the third quarter of this year and may persist until 2024.

"In no time, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) Chairman, Governor Atty. Edcel Greco A.B. Lagman will issue an executive order to hasten the creation of the team that w...