Typhoon warning to farmers in North

Typhoon Vamco is expected to hit the North and Northeast on Sunday and Monday, but spare the flooded areas of the lower Northeast.

The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) reported on Saturday that Vamco, a category 5 typhoon, was centred in the middle of the South China Sea and heading towards the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.

It was advancing at a constant 160kph and expected to make landfall in Vietnam on Sunday before downgrading to a tropical storm.

The TMD is forecasting isolated light to moderate rain over the North and Northeast on Sunday and Monday, and has warned farmers to prepare for excess water and possibly crop-damaging floods.

Vamco has prompted the evacuation of almost half a million residents in Vietnam after earlier sweeping across the Philippines’ largest island of Luzon.

Swathes of the region reportedly remained without power and with only…