ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Basilan has been placed under a state of calamity due to a disease affecting rubber tree plantations in the province. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Basilan provincial government has expressed alarm over the spread of a disease affecting rubber trees in the province. Gov. Jim Hataman Salliman said up to 800 hectares of ...

Cotabato Governor Emmylou Talino-Mendoza says her order is meant to protect the province's more than a P1-billion rubber industry from the destructive tree fungal disease GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – ...

The Pestalotiopsis attack affects around 90% of the rubber trees in Basilan’s nine municipalities and two cities BASILAN, Philippines – The provincial government on Monday, January 23, declared the ...