The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) released its general recommendations on the management of cutworms and armyworms following reports on the defoliators’ attacks in some parts of the country including Bataan.

Arriving from his recent trip in the said province where attacks on rice plants were reported, Genaro S. Rillon, head of PhilRice's Crop Protection Division, said infestations in Bataan is “now under control except in Hermosa, where farmers apply insecticides to the larvae.” Local units of the Department of Agriculture identified Bagac, Mariveles, Pilar, and Limay as towns hit by the the insect pests.