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Notes from a cane farm in Negros Oriental

On Philippine sugarcane farming, pest management, farm management software, and the 2026 RSSI outbreak. First-person. Sourced. By Lance M. Reyna.

The RSSI Pest Crisis in Negros and How We're Tracking It

The red-striped soft scale insect has hit over 92,000 hectares nationwide. Bais City declared a state of calamity. Here's a firsthand account from a farmer in the affected area — and how we built a tool to document what's happening, because farmers had no way to prove their losses.

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