Philippines assesses damage as typhoon heads to China

Green business News - Oct. 19 - Typhoon Megi cleared the Philippines' main island and headed toward China. Authorities said initial estimation showed the super storm had damaged around one percent of the country's rice crops. Assess

Officials said 10 people killed in the Philippines, is expected to hit China's southern Guangdong province. In the Philippines, disaster agency officials tried to reach eastern coastal towns and villages, most of houses have destroyed.

At least 10 %, or some 105,000 metric tons of the rice crops in the country's second biggest production area, the Cagayan valley, had been destroyed.

The Philippines is the world's biggest rice importer and has damaged from the typhoon that could increase international prices.

Faustino Dy, governor of Isabela province that accounts for 60 percent of rice output in the Cagayan valley said that the damage was very big. And it would have produced 575,000 metric tons of rice. But because of typhoon 385,000 tons had been destroyed.