Regularly alluded to as the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao region covers 1, 670 hectares of agrarian land. Presently, ongoing information uncovered that an aggregate of 600 hectares have been surrendered and should be reestablished.
The principle cerebral pain here is disintegration. Add to that, the loss of enthusiasm among the more youthful ages to cultivating. They'd preferably go down to the urban communities and attempt their karma for an increasingly steady pay in call focuses, land and other pay based professions.
Yet, they're not to be accused.
Work has become a penance," concedes Banaue Mayor Jerry U. Dalipog.
"The normal period of ranchers in our town is 57 years of age," included Dalipog, who despite everything goes to the rice fields he acquired from his predecessors. Banaue, he brought up, has a populace of 22,000 and around 50 percent are ranchers.
"Be that as it may, as per the Department of Agriculture, on the off chance that you have one chicken or goat, you are viewed as a rancher," he noted, truly.
Cultivating for some long-lasting inhabitants who have standard employments has become a task, something that should be done on the grounds that the rice fields they acquired from their folks are there. The rest essentially relinquished the land to work in the greater urban areas.
"I am a rancher. I began cultivating when I was 10 years of age. My grandparents, my mom and father were ranchers and they sent me to class to win a four year certification in structural building. I labored for a long time as metropolitan design and up to now as city hall leader, I despite everything keep on working in the field," he said.
Dalipog is only one of only a handful rare sorts of people who stayed and in spite of the endeavors of the neighborhood government, the Banaue Rice Terraces keeps on decaying. Environmental switch has speeded up the disintegration.
In 2015, Dalipog said the number was around 332 hectares of deserted land that required reclamation. In three years, the number has multiplied. On the off chance that less endeavors in rebuilding are made, what amount a greater amount of the 1,607 hectares in the coming years will remain? he inquired.
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A brisk Google search gave us a concise backgrounder. The Banaue Rice Terraces covers two barangays, Batad and Bangaan. It is a piece of the 2,000-year-old Ifugao Rice Terraces or what the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) called the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras. Different towns in Ifugao territory that likewise have rice patios are Mayoyao, Kiangan and Hungduan.
Be that as it may, sightseers frequently rushed to the more available rice porches in Banaue town, which sits at the foot of Mouth Amuyao.