NURKILAH is thankful that he did not plant rice in May to June. He was not inclined to gamble because he had already observed symptoms of El Niño, a prolonged drought that could potentially result in rice harvest failure. The gray-haired man knew that if he had insisted on planting rice, he would only end up bankrupt. “Rather than throwing money away and not seeing great harvest, it was better not to plant,” he said on Fri