PHILIPPINESPHILIPPINES AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE

• CULTIVATION OF PLANTS AND THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS IN ORER TO FEED AND CLOTHE PEOPLE

1.) AGRICULTURAL CROPS ex. palay, corn…other Agricultural products2.) SUBSECTORS

Fisheries, livestock and poultry

3.) FORESTRYLogging, Afforestation, minor

farm products

Refers to farming/ production of agrcultural crops

>Satisfy only “substinence” of family or clan

>Sells the product locally/abroad

MEDIUM SCALE: farmmain source of the family’s daily food needs.

LARGE SCALE: vast land planted to a single crop, for the export market

MANUAL THRESHING

MANUAL THRESHING

MACHINERIESFARM

MACHINERIESFARM

THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE

J and Ma

Article II (Declaration of Principles) Sec. 21 “The State shall promote comprehensive rural development and agrarian reform”

REFERENCE : BUREAU OF AGRICULTURALSTATISTICS

AGRICULTURE’S AGRICULTURE’S VITAL FUNCTIONSVITAL FUNCTIONS

• 1.) PROVIDER OF FOOD AND ECONOMIC SECURITY-feed the populations

2.) SOURCE OF RAW 2.) SOURCE OF RAW MATERIALS FOR INDUSTRYMATERIALS FOR INDUSTRY

3.) MARKET FOR INDUSTRY’S PRODUCTS

*As earnings from agriculture increase, the demand for industrial products

increases. Ex. Fertilizers, machines4.) SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD* Agriculture employs 35% of the labor force.

5.) SOURCE OF FOREIGN EXCHANGECoconut = country’s top agricultural export

6.) CONTRIBUTOR TO NATIONAL INCOME- increase in Gross value of Agricultural production.

Year 2007 2008 2009 Total

Carabao 136,959 140,423 140,910 418,292

Cattle 236,871 239,156 245,100 721,127

Hog 1.8 M 1.9 M 1.9 M 5.6 M

Goat 76,558 78,009 77,379 231,946

LIVESTOCK

Source: Bureau Agricultural Statistics

Year 2007 2008 2009 Total

Chicken1.2 M 1.3 M 1.3 M 3.8 M

Duck 42,456 39,206 35,928 117,590

Chicken eggs 335,104 350,789 368,464 1.1 M

Duck eggs 46,990 42,454 39,617

129,061M

POULTRY AND EGGS

Source: Bureau Agricultural Statistics

Year 2007 2008 2009 Total

Fisheries 4.8 M 5 M 5 M 14.8 M

FISHERIES

Source: Bureau Agricultural Statistics

A.UNSTABLE PRICESA.UNSTABLE PRICES

-If floods damage lower production, prices of farm products, fishes & livestock rise

B. LACK OF RURAL INFRASTRACTURE &

AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT

B. LACK OF RURAL INFRASTRACTURE &

AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT

-lack of roads and bridges slow down product transport from farm to market cause spoilage.

C. LACK OF C. LACK OF COMPETITIVENESSCOMPETITIVENESS IN IN THE GLOBAL MARKETSTHE GLOBAL MARKETS

C. LACK OF C. LACK OF COMPETITIVENESSCOMPETITIVENESS IN IN THE GLOBAL MARKETSTHE GLOBAL MARKETS

-our outdated technologies-over-dependence on weather

INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONS HELPING THE HELPING THE AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL SECTORSECTOR

Primary body for agricultural activities

Sec. Proceso J. Alcala

Implementation of Agrarian Reform

Activies concerning the environment, forests and wildlife

Sec. Virgilio Almario

Sec. Lito Atienza

Provides the data on the volume of production of the Agriculrural Industries

In charge for the Fisheries sector

Regulates the grains industry,food security program, distributing basic commodities

SUGGESTIONS1.) Construct rural infrastructures such as irrigation systems 2.) Give farmers the chance to own the land they till3.)Agricultural technology must be improved fertilizers, machines and equipments

4.)Institutions helping the sector must be funded5.) farmers, fisherfolk other workers must be educated/trained6.)Government must support cooperatives of farmers, fisherfolk and livestock producers

-association of at least 15 individuals who combine their

resources money, labor, knowledge, to attain mutually

beneficial goal.

>Consumers’ Cooperatives>Farmers Cooperatives>Producers’ Cooperatives >Multipurpose Cooperatives

-in charge for the registration and regulation

of cooperatives

R.A. 6939-created the CDA“to promote the varibality and growth of cooperatives for equity…..”

-Members of Cooperatives can pool financial resources to be able to buy machines-Cooperatives offer higher buying prices for the farmers’ produce

Accumulated profits are returned to members in the

form of dividends