Antique, March 7 -- The Antique provincial government is requesting the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to expand the Local Adaptation to Water Access (LAWA) projects in the province to support food sufficiency, especially during the onset of the El Nino phenomenon.

Fernando Corvera, Antique provincial government consultant on agri-fishery, said on Thursday the LAWA or small water reservoir projects in the province provided water for farmers during this dry spell.

"The LAWA projects enabled our farmers to have water to be used for their crops even during the dry spell," he said in an interview.

The towns of Sibalom, Sebaste and Barbaza served as pilot areas in Western Visayas in 2023, and the projects' expansion to ...