NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines — In the Philippines ... While some raise alarm bells at the younger generations’ retreat from the rice fields, other experts say it isn’t all bad, given economies ...

A farmer tills his rice field as waters from a burst river dike destroyed at the height of Super Typhoon Man-yi start to inundate fields at a farming village in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija province on Nov. 19 ...

Felix Pangibitan runs his hands through what is left of his precious rice crop. The stalks in nearly two-thirds of the field are bent ... His farm in Nueva Ecija on the main island of Luzon ...