About a year ago, portion of the rice farms in Kiangan and Asipulo, Ifugao were deserted, sprawled only with tall grasses and bushes, bearing no mark of the picturesque and productive terraces they once were when they were being cultivated for the traditional heirloom rice. According to Kagawad Norma Balawon of Brgy. Julongan, Kiangan, Ifugao, these patches of rice terraces were abandoned about ten years ago due to lack of irrigation water and the local migration of farming families to other areas in search of a different future.
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