AFMP 2011-2017: Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan

FORMULATION OF THE AGRICULTURE
AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION PLAN, 2011 2017

(ITB-029-01)
AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES

MODERNIZATION PLAN, 2011 2017
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June 2012
FORMULATION OF THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION PLAN, 2011 - 2017
Table of Contents
Acronyms and Abbreviations ........................................................................ ix
Acknowledgement ...................................................................................... xiii
CHAPTER 1
Policy Framework................................................................. 1
CHAPTER 2
Where We Are: The State of Philippine Agriculture and

Fisheries ............................................................................... 5
2.1
2.2
Contribution to the Economy..................................................................... 5

Recent Performance .................................................................................. 5
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.2.6
2.3
Productivity Constraints ............................................................................ 8

2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
2.3.5
2.3.6
2.3.7
2.3.8
2.4
Growth below target ...................................................................... 5

Declining productivity and competitiveness ................................... 6
Comparative advantage not fully exploited .................................... 6
Elusive rice self-sufficiency ........................................................... 8
Increase in food commodities prices .............................................. 8
Stagnant poverty headcount ........................................................... 8
High cost of production inputs ....................................................... 8

Inefficient supply chain and logistics systems ................................ 9
Inadequate provision of irrigation infrastructure ............................. 9
Low rate of adoption of technologies, including mechanization ......... 9
Limited access to formal credit and financing .............................. 10
Competing uses of agricultural lands ............................................ 10
Vulnerability to weather risks and climate change ........................ 10
Environmental degradation .......................................................... 11
Institutional and Policy Issues.................................................................. 11

2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
2.4.4
2.4.5
Weak agricultural extension service ............................................. 11

Contradictory rice policy.............................................................. 11
Incomplete implementation of asset reforms ................................ 12
Limited investments in public goods ............................................ 12
Limited investments on commodities with comparative
advantage..................................................................................... 13
2.4.6 Incomplete implementation of the Strategic Agriculture
and Fishery Development Zones and Preparation of Integrated
Development Plans ...................................................................... 13
2.4.7 Delay in the implementation of rationalization plans .................... 13
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CHAPTER 3
3.1
3.2
Vision and Commitment .......................................................................... 15

Goals and Targets .................................................................................... 15
CHAPTER 4
4.1
4.2
4.3
Where We Want to Go: Our Vision, Goals and Targets ...... 15
How We Shall Achieve Our Vision: Our Planning

Framework .......................................................................... 17
Sustainable Modernization ...................................................................... 17

Broad-based Involvement with Sharpened Roles ..................................... 18
Efficiency through Convergence and Knowledge Management ............... 19
CHAPTER 5
What We Shall Do: Priority Interventions

by Core Function ................................................................ 21
5.1
Infrastructure Support.............................................................................. 21
5.1.1 National and Communal Irrigation Systems ................................. 21
5.1.2 Small Scale Irrigation Projects ..................................................... 24
5.1.3 Farm-to-Market Road Development Program (FMRDP) .............. 26
5.1.4 Postharvest Facilities and Other Infrastructure ............................. 28
5.2
Research and Development, and Extension .............................................. 30

5.2.1 Research and Development Services ............................................ 30
5.2.2 Extension ..................................................................................... 34
5.2.3 Agribusiness and Market Development Services .......................... 37
5.3
Regulatory Services ................................................................................. 46

5.3.1 Objectives .................................................................................... 46
5.3.2 Principles, Approaches and Tools ................................................ 46
5.3.3 Plan of Action .............................................................................. 48
5.4
Policy and Planning ................................................................................. 51

5.4.1 Legislative agenda ....................................................................... 52
5.4.2 Planning and Monitoring.............................................................. 53
5.4.3 Agriculture Statistics .................................................................... 56
5.4.4 Credit Facilitation ........................................................................ 57
5.5
Climate Change ....................................................................................... 61

5.5.1 Policy and Implementation Program on Climate Change .............. 61
5.5.2 Strategies ..................................................................................... 62
CHAPTER 6
6.1
What We Shall Do: Plan of Action by Subsector ................ 66
Rice ......................................................................................................... 66
6.1.1 Food Staple Self Sufficiency Program 2011-2016 ........................ 66
6.1.2 Strategies ..................................................................................... 67
6.1.3 Financial requirements ................................................................. 73
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6.2
Corn ........................................................................................................ 74
6.2.1 Goals and Objectives ................................................................... 74
6.2.2 Program Strategies ....................................................................... 75
6.2.3 Outputs ........................................................................................ 76
6.2.4 Inputs........................................................................................... 79
6.3
High Value Crops .................................................................................... 80

6.3.1 The High Value Crops Development Program ............................. 80
6.3.2 The Coconut Development Program ............................................ 83
6.4
Livestock and Poultry .............................................................................. 89

6.4.1 Goals and Objectives ................................................................... 89
6.4.2 Priorities ...................................................................................... 90
6.4.3 Plan of Action .............................................................................. 90
6.5
Fisheries .................................................................................................. 97
6.5.1 Plan Objectives ............................................................................ 98
6.5.2 Plan of Action .............................................................................. 98
CHAPTER 7
What We Shall Do in the Regions..................................... 102
7.1
Cordillera Administrative Region .......................................................... 102

7.1.1 Goals, Objectives and Strategies ................................................ 102
7.1.2 Outputs by Function ................................................................... 107
7.1.3 Inputs......................................................................................... 110
7.2
Ilocos Region ........................................................................................ 112

7.2.1 Goals and Objectives ................................................................. 112
7.2.2 Strategies/Priority Programs....................................................... 114
7.2.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 117
7.3
Cagayan Valley ..................................................................................... 119

7.3.1 Priority Programs and Major Strategies ...................................... 119
7.3.3 Inputs......................................................................................... 124
7.4
Central Luzon........................................................................................ 126

7.4.1 Objectives .................................................................................. 126
7.4.2 Productivity Targets ................................................................... 127
7.4.3 Strategies and Priority Programs ................................................ 128
7.4.5 Inputs......................................................................................... 133
7.5
CALABARZON ................................................................................... 134

7.5.1 Objectives and Strategies ........................................................... 134
7.5.2 Priority Programs ....................................................................... 135
7.5.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 138
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7.6
MIMAROPA......................................................................................... 142
7.6.1 Development Vision .................................................................. 142
7.6.2 Goals and Objectives ................................................................. 142
7.6.3 Strategies ................................................................................... 144
7.6.5 Inputs......................................................................................... 147
7.7
Bicol ..................................................................................................... 150

7.7.1 Objectives and Strategies ........................................................... 150
7.7.3 Inputs......................................................................................... 155
7.8
Western Visayas .................................................................................... 160

7.8.1 Goal and Objectives ................................................................... 160
7.8.2 Strategies and Priorities ............................................................. 162
7.8.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 167
7.9
Central Visayas ..................................................................................... 169

7.9.1 Objectives and Targets ............................................................... 169
7.9.2 Directions and Strategies............................................................ 171
7.9.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 173
7.10
Eastern Visayas ..................................................................................... 177

7.10.1 Goals, Objectives and Strategies ................................................ 177
7.10.3 Inputs......................................................................................... 182
7.11
Zamboanga Peninsula ............................................................................ 184

7.11.1 Objectives and Productivity Targets ........................................... 184
7.11.2 Strategies and Priorities ............................................................. 186
7.11.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 188
7.12
Northern Mindanao ............................................................................... 191

7.12.2 Strategies and Priority Programs ................................................ 194
7.12.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 197
7.13
Davao Region ........................................................................................ 200

7.13.2 Strategies ................................................................................... 202
7.13.3 Priority Programs, Projects and Activities .................................. 202
7.13.5 Inputs......................................................................................... 206
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7.14
SOCCSKSARGEN ............................................................................... 222

7.14.2 Strategies ................................................................................... 224
7.14.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 226
7.15
Caraga ................................................................................................... 229

7.15.1 Objectives .................................................................................. 229
7.15.2 Programs and Strategies ............................................................. 231
7.15.4 Inputs......................................................................................... 236
7.16
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ............................................ 240

7.16.1 Priorities and Strategies ............................................................. 240
7.16.3 Inputs......................................................................................... 241
CHAPTER 8
8.1
8.2
8.3
Plan Implementation ......................................................... 236
AFMP-Driven Annual Budget ............................................................... 236

Plan Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................ 236
Institutional Arrangements .................................................................... 237
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List of Tables
Table 1. Agricultural and Fishery *(with Forestry) Performance
and Contribution to Economy: 2004-2010 ........................................................... 5
Table 2. Land Productivity in ASEAN Countries by Selected Commodities, 2009 ............ 6
Table 3. Revealed Comparative Advantage, 2009 ............................................................. 7
Table 4. International Trade of Agricultural Products in the ASEAN Region .................... 7
Table 5. National Targets in Agriculture ......................................................................... 16
Table 6. Irrigation Service Area Generated and Restored .. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Table 7. Irrigated Area Rehabilitated ................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Table 8. Number of SSIPS Installed................................................................................ 26
Table 9. Farm-to-Market Roads Constructed and Repaired ............................................. 27
Table 10. Other Infrastructure, Facilities and Equipment Installed .................................. 29
Table 11. Inputs for Infrastructure and Facilities Support................................................ 29
Table 12. Summary of outputs for R&D ......................................................................... 34
Table 13. Summary of Outputs for Agribusiness and Market Development Services Error!
Bookmark not defined.
Table 14. Inputs for Research and Development, and Extension ..................................... 45
Table 15. Inputs for Regulatory ...................................................................................... 51
Table 16. Inputs for Policy and Planning Support ........................................................... 61
Table 17. Inputs for Climate Change Adaptation ............................................................ 64
Table 18. Inputs for Rice Program .................................................................................. 73
Table 19. Inputs for Corn Program ................................................................................. 79
Table 20. Inputs for High Value Commodities Development ProgramError! Bookmark
not defined.
Table 21. Inputs for the Coconut Program ...................................................................... 88
Table 22. Inputs for Livestock Program .......................................................................... 97
Table 23. Inputs for Fisheries Program ......................................................................... 100
Table 24. CAR by the Numbers .................................................................................... 102
Table 25. Productivity Targets, CAR ............................................................................ 103
Table 26. Priority Value Chains, CAR .......................................................................... 110
Table 27. Summary of Inputs, CAR .............................................................................. 111
Table 28. Ilocos Region by the Numbers ...................................................................... 112
Table 29. Productivity Targets, Ilocos Region .............................................................. 113
Table 30. Priority Value Chains, Ilocos Region ............................................................ 117
Table 31. Summary of Inputs, Ilocos Region .................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Table 32. Cagayan Valley by the Numbers ................................................................... 119
Table 33. Productivity Targets, Cagayan Valley ........................................................... 124
Table 34. Priority Value Chains, Cagayan Valley ......................................................... 125
Table 35. Summary of Inputs, Cagayan Valley ............................................................. 125
Table 36. Central Luzon by the Numbers ...................................................................... 126
Table 37. Productivity Targets, Central Luzon .............................................................. 127
Table 38. Priority Value Chains, Central Luzon ............................................................ 132
Table 39. Summary of Inputs, Central Luzon................................................................ 133
Table 40. CALABARZON by the Numbers.................................................................. 134
Table 41. Productivity Targets, CALABARZON .......................................................... 139
Table 42. Priority Value Chains, CALABARZON ........................................................ 140
Table 43. Summary of Inputs, CALABARZON ........................................................... 140
Table 44. MIMAROPA by the Numbers....................................................................... 142
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Table 45. Productivity Targets, MIMAROPA ............................................................... 143

Table 46. Priority Value Chains, MIMAROPA ............................................................. 148
Table 47. Summary of Inputs, MIMAROPA................................................................. 149
Table 48. Bicol by the Numbers.................................................................................... 150
Table 49. Productivity Targets, Bicol............................................................................ 151
Table 50. Priority Value Chains, Bicol.......................................................................... 156
Table 51. Summary of Inputs, Bicol ............................................................................. 159
Table 52. Western Visayas by the Numbers .................................................................. 160
Table 53. Productivity Targets, Western Visayas .......................................................... 161
Table 54. Priority Value Chains, Western Visayas ........................................................ 167
Table 55. Summary of Inputs, Western Visayas ............................................................ 168
Table 56. Central Visayas by the Numbers ................................................................... 169
Table 57. Productivity Targets, Central Visayas ........................................................... 170
Table 58. Priority Value Chains, Central Visayas ......................................................... 174
Table 59. Summary of Inputs, Central Visayas ............................................................. 176
Table 60. Eastern Visayas by the Numbers ................................................................... 177
Table 61. Productivity Targets, Eastern Visayas ........................................................... 178
Table 62. Priority Value Chains, Eastern Visayas ......................................................... 182
Table 63. Summary of Inputs, Eastern Visayas ............................................................. 183
Table 64. Zamboanga Peninsula by the Numbers .......................................................... 184
Table 65. Productivity Targets, Zamboanga Peninsula .................................................. 185
Table 66. Priority Commodities, by Economic Contribution, Zamboanga Peninsula ..... 186
Table 67. Priority Value Chains, Zamboanga Peninsula ................................................ 188
Table 68. Summary of Inputs, Zamboanga Peninsula .................................................... 190
Table 69. Northern Mindanao by the Numbers ............................................................. 191
Table 70. Sufficiency Targets, Northern Mindanao ....................................................... 192
Table 71. Production and productivity targets, Northern Mindanao ............................... 193
Table 72. Priority Value Chains, Northern Mindanao ................................................... 198
Table 73. Summary of Inputs, Northern Mindanao ....................................................... 199
Table 74. Davao by the Numbers .................................................................................. 200
Table 75. Productivity Targets, Davao Region .............................................................. 201
Table 76. Priority Value Chains, Davao Region ............................................................ 206
Table 77. Summary of Inputs, Davao Region................................................................ 221
Table 78. SOCCSKSARGEN by the Numbers ............................................................. 222
Table 79. Productivity Targets, SOCCSKSARGEN...................................................... 223
Table 80. Priority Value Chains, SOCCSKSARGEN.................................................... 226
Table 81. Summary of Inputs, SOCCSKSARGEN ....................................................... 228
Table 82. Caraga by the Numbers ................................................................................. 229
Table 83. Productivity Targets, Caraga ......................................................................... 230
Table 84. Priority Value Chains, Caraga ....................................................................... 236
Table 85. Summary of Inputs, Caraga ........................................................................... 238
Table 86. ARMM by the Numbers................................................................................ 240
Table 87. Productivity Targets, ARMM ........................................................................ 242
Table 88. Priority Value Chains, ARMM ...................................................................... 243
Table 89. Summary of Inputs, ARMM.......................................................................... 244
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List of Figures
Figure 1. National-Local Governance Framework .......................................................... 18
Figure 2. The Integrated Watershed Management Approach ........................................... 25
Figure 3. Livestock and Poultry Industry Performance (2011) ........................................ 89
Figure 4. Value Chain Map (Banana) in Southern Samar Banana Cluster ..................... 183
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACPC
Agricultural Credit Policy Council
ADB
Asian Development Bank
AFC
Agriculture and Fishery Council
AFE
Agriculture and fisheries extension
AFF
Agri-fishery and forestry
AFIS
Agriculture and Fisheries Information Service
AFMA
Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act
AFMIS
Agriculture and Fisheries Market Information System
AFMP
Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan
AFTA
ASEAN Free Trade Agreement
AGFP
Agricultural Guarantee Fund Pool
AIPA
Agribusiness Investment Promotion Assistance
ALEDA
Agribusiness Livelihood Enterprise Development Assistance
AMAS
Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service
AMCFP
Agro-Industry Modernization Credit and Financing Program
AMD
Agribusiness and market development
ARB
Agrarian reform beneficiary
ARMM
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
ASEAN
Association of South East Asian Nations
ATI
Agricultural Training Institute
BACs
Bureaus, attached agencies and corporations
BAFPS
Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards
BAI
Bureau of Animal Industry
BAR
Bureau of Agricultural Research
BAS
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
BFAR
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
BPI
Bureau of Plant Industry
BSWM
Bureau of Soils and Water Management
CALABARZON
Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon
CAR
Cordillera Administrative Region
CARP
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
CIS
Communal irrigation system
CLUP
Comprehensive Land Use Plan
CO
Central office
COAST
Corn-Based Agribusiness Systems Technology
CODA
Cotton Development Administration
Codex
Codex Alimentarius Commission
CPAR
Community-Based Participatory Action Research
CRG
Competitive research grant
DA
Department of Agriculture
DAR
Department of Agrarian Reform
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DD
DENR
DILG
DMS
DOST
DOT
DOTC
DRR/CCA
DTI
ESP
FAO
FFS
FIDA
FMD
FMR
FMS
FOS
FPA
FSSP
FTA
GAP
GDP
GIS
GMP
GRDP
GVA
HACCP
HVCDP
IA
ICB
ICT
IEC
IFAD
IP
IPM
IPPC
IRD
ITCAF
LDC
LDC
LGU
MfDR
MIMAROPA
MSME
Diversion dam
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Department of the Interior and Local Government
Digital media signage
Department of Science and Technology
Department of Tourism
Department of Transportation and Communication
Disaster risk reduction/Climate change adaptation
Department of Trade and Industry
Extension service providers
Food and Agriculture Organization
Farmer field school
Fiber Industry Development Authority
Foot-and-mouth disease
Farm-to-market road
Financial Management Service
Field Operations Service
Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority
Food Staples Sufficiency Program
Free trade area
Good agricultural practices
Gross domestic product
Geographic information system
Good manufacturing practices
Gross regional domestic product
Gross value added
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
High-Value Crops Development Program
Irrigators association
Institutional capacity building
Information and communication technology
Information, education, communication
International Fund for Agriculture Development
Intellectual property
Integrated pest management
International Plant Protection Convention
International Relations Division
Information Technology Center for Agriculture and Fisheries
Livestock Development Council
Local Development Council
Local government unit
Managing for Development Results
Mindoro (Oriental and Occidental), Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan
Micro, small and medium enterprises
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NABCOR
NAFC
NAMRIA
NaRDSAF
NCI
NDA
NEDA
NFA
NG
NGA
NGO
NIA
NIS
NMIS
NSCB
NSO
NTA
OIE
OPV
OU
OWWA
O&M
PADCC
PAGASA
National Agribusiness Corporation

National Agricultural and Fishery Council
National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
National R&D System for Agriculture and Fisheries
National Convergence Initiative
National Dairy Authority
National Economic and Development Authority
National Food Authority
National government
National government agency
Non-government organization
National Irrigation Administration
National irrigation system
National Meat Inspection Service
National Statistical Coordination Board
National Statistics Office
National Tobacco Administration
World Organization for Animal Health
Open pollinated variety
Operating unit
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
Operation and maintenance
Philippine Agricultural Development and Commercial Corporation
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services
Administration
PAO
Philippine Agribusiness Opportunities
PCA
Philippine Coconut Authority
PCC
Philippine Carabao Center
PCIC
Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
PDP
Philippine Development Plan
PDS
Project Development Service
PFDA
Philippine Fisheries Development Authority
PhilMech
Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization
PhilRice
Philippine Rice Research Institute
PISOS
Pump irrigation system from open source
PO
Peoples organization
PRA
Participatory rural appraisal
PRS
Policy Research Service
PS
Planning Service
QUEDANCOR
Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corporation
RAFMP
Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan
R&D
Research and development
RDE
Research and development, and extension
RDEAP
Research and Development, and Extension Agenda and Program
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RFRDC
RFU
RIARC
SAFDZ
SEAFDEC
SD
SFR
SPS
SRA
SSIP
STW
SUCs
SWIP
TBT
TLRC
UEGIS
UNDP
WB
WTO
Regional Fisheries Research and Development Center

Regional field unit
Regional Integrated Agricultural Research Center
Strategic Agriculture and Fishery Development Zone
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
Spring development
Small farm reservoir
Sanitary and phytosanitary
Sugar Regulatory Administration
Small-scale irrigation project
Shallow tube well
State universities and colleges
Small water impounding project
Technical barriers to trade
Technical and Livelihood Resource Center
Unified and Enterprise Geospatial Information System
United Nations Development Programme
World Bank
World Trade Organization
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Acknowledgement
This AFMP was formulated by DA operating units following the Secretarys issuance of
the Planning Framework and Guidelines for AFMP 2011-2017. The following is a list of
the DA operating units that contributed Plan sections:
Bureaus:
Agricultural Training Institute
Bureau of Agricultural Research
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards
Bureau of Animal Industry
Bureau of Plant Industry
Bureau of Soils and Water Management
Attached Agencies:
Agricultural Credit Policy Council
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Cotton Development Administration
Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority
Fiber Industry Development Authority
Livestock Development Council
National Agricultural and Fishery Council
National Meat Inspection Service
Philippine Carabao Center
Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization
Attached Corporations:
National Dairy Authority
National Food Authority
National Irrigation Administration
National Tobacco Administration
Philippine Coconut Authority
Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
Philippine Fisheries Development Authority
Philippine Rice Research Institute
Quedan and Rural Credit Corporation
Sugar Regulatory Administration
Banner Commodity Programs

National Rice Program
National Corn Program
High-Value Crops Development Program
National Fisheries Program
National Livestock Program
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Regional Field Units:

Cordillera Administrative Region
Ilocos Region
Cagayan Valley
Central Luzon
CALABARZON
MIMAROPA
Bicol Region
Western Visayas
Central Visayas
Eastern Visayas
Zamboanga Peninsula
Northern Mindanao
Davao Region
SOCCSKSARGEN
Caraga
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
OSEC Services:
Agribusiness Marketing Assistance Service
Agriculture and Fishery Information Service
Field Operations Service
Financial Management Service
Information Technology Center for Agriculture and Fisheries
Policy Research Service
Project Development Service
Other OSEC Sub-Service Units:

Climate Change Program Office
International Relations Division
The Plan was subject of consultations with Local Government Units as well as other
government and non-government stakeholders. The regional field units held workshops
with their LGU counterparts while the National Agriculture and Fisheries Council
supported the conduct of area wide consultations to define and refine the plan contents.
The Planning Service provided overall guidance, coordination and facilitation during the
plan preparation.
The whole Department acknowledges with gratitude the competence and commitment
invested in the formulation of this Plan by these units, especially the officials and staff
members directly involved in the planning exercise.
CHAPTER 1
Policy Framework
The Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 contains the integrated plan of the
Benigno Aquino III administration for national development. Deeply aware that the
countrys past growth had been slow and that progress had not benefited the majority of
the population, the PDP pursues and envisions inclusive growth for the country. Inclusive
growth is defined as high and sustained economic growth that creates massive
employment, increasingly brings the majority into the economic and social mainstream,
and substantially reduces poverty.
Chapter 4 of the PDP recognizes the role of a competitive and sustainable agriculture and
fisheries sector in achieving the Plan vision. The sector provides food and vital raw
materials to, and serves as a significant market for the products and services of, the
economy. Rising productivity and efficiency in agriculture and fisheries are critical for
making food accessible among the poor. Clearly, the sectors development is vital in
achieving the PDP vision of inclusive growth and reduced poverty.
The PDP defines three goals for the sector:
1. Improved food security and increased incomes;
2. Increased resilience to climate change risks; and
3. Enhanced policy environment and governance.
The PDP advances key thinking to further spell out strategies in achieving these goals. A
key view is that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and
economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and
food preferences for an active and healthy life (FAO, 2002). Another is that raising
productivity and incomes is an important first step towards modernizing the sector.
Productivity enhancements will make agriculture and fishery products more competitive,
contributing to the growth of the other economic sectors industry and services.
The PDP recognizes that making agriculture and fisheries competitive and modern may
render some workers redundant. For the released rural workers to find gainful employment
in the industry and services sectors, capital accumulation must rise sufficiently in agroindustries and agricultural services. In addition, complementary education and training
must make rural workers more adaptable and flexible. Expanding the markets of
agriculture and fishery products through value-adding and scaling-up of operations can
also provide additional employment opportunities.
The PDP also recognizes that the resiliency of the agriculture sector is threatened by
climate change and extreme weather events. Damage to rural infrastructure; losses to
crops, livestock, and fishing grounds; as well as threats to water supply and the competing
priorities in water allocation are a few of the emerging problems that had resulted from
this vulnerability that should be dealt with expediently. Sound scientific advice is needed
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regarding appropriate crop varieties, cropping patterns, and climate-resilient structures,

including irrigation systems.
Consistent with the above perspective, the PDP identifies the following strategies to
pursue the stated sector goals:
1. Raise the productivity and incomes of agriculture- and fishery-based households
and enterprises;
2. Increase investments and employment across efficient value chains;
3. Reduce climate change-related risks and the vulnerability of natural ecosystems
and biodiversity through ecosystem-based management approaches, conservation
efforts, and sustainable environment and natural resources-based economic
endeavors such as agri-ecotourism;
4. Increase the resilience of agriculture communities through the development of
climate change-sensitive technologies, establishment of climate-resilient
agricultural infrastructure and climate-responsive food production systems, and
provision of support services to the most vulnerable communities;
5. Strengthen the agriculture and fisheries insurance system as an important risksharing mechanism;
6. Incorporate natural hazards and climate risk in agricultural land use plans or
Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs);
7. Strengthen the capacity of communities to respond effectively to climate risks and
natural hazards;
8. Continue vulnerability and adaptation assessments, especially in food production
areas;
9. Reaffirm the mechanisms and objectives of the National Convergence Initiative
(NCI);
10. Adopt Managing for Development Results (MfDR) as a common approach among
rural development agencies;
11. Implement budgetary reforms;
12. Pursue public-private partnerships, especially for infrastructure and value chain
development; and
13. Review critical legislation and policy issuances.
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The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 is a comprehensive blueprint for sector
modernization and rural development. It prescribes a set of strategies to achieve the following
key results:
1. Poverty Alleviation and Social Equity: Ensure that the poorer sectors of society have
equitable access to resources, income opportunities, and basic support services and
infrastructure, especially in areas where productivity is low, as a means of improving their
quality of life compared with other sectors of society;
2. Food Security: Assure the availability, adequacy, and accessibility of food supplies to all,
at all times;
3. Rational Use of Resources: Assure efficiency and effectiveness in the use of scarce
resources and thus obtain optimal returns on its investments;
4. Global Competitiveness: Enhance the competitiveness of the agriculture and fisheries
sectors in both domestic and foreign markets;
5. Sustainable Development:
Promote development that is compatible with the
preservation of the ecosystem in areas where agriculture and fisheries activities are
carried out, exerting care and prudence in the use of the country's natural resources in
order to attain long-term sustainability;
6. People Empowerment: Promote people empowerment by enabling all citizens, through
direct participation or through their duly elected, chosen or designated representatives,
the opportunity to participate in policy formulation and decision-making by establishing
the appropriate mechanisms and by giving them access to information; and
7. Protection from Unfair Competition: Protect small farmers and fisher folk from unfair
competition such as monopolistic and oligopolistic practices, by promoting a policy
environment that provides them priority access to credit and strengthened cooperativebased marketing systems.
Accomplishments since the enactment of the law and the current state of the sector support the
continued pursuit of the above key results to promote sector modernization and ensure its full
contribution to inclusive growth.
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CHAPTER 2
Where We Are: The State of Philippine
Agriculture and Fisheries1
2.1 Contribution to the Economy
From 2004 to 2010, agriculture and fisheries contributed an average of 18.4% to the gross
domestic product (GDP), growing at an average rate of 2.6% annually. It employed an
average of 11.8 million a year, 35.1% of the total work force. If the whole agriculture
value chain is considered, the sectors contribution to the GDP and total employment
would reach 35% and 50%, respectively.
2.2 Recent Performance

2.2.1 Growth below target
The sectors average growth in 2004-2010, while positive at 2.6% annually, was below the
target of the previous PDP, which was a sustained growth of 4.4% to 5.4% (Table 1). The
occurrence of the global financial crisis, a fuel price spike in 2008, and climate-related
events in 2009 (e.g., the El Nio phenomenon and typhoons) all contributed to this belowtarget performance. For instance, the devastation from the typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng
resulted in damage to agriculture and fisheries estimated at PhP 24.7 billion in 2009,
pulling down the sectors growth to only one-tenth of 1%.
Table 1.Agricultural and Fishery *(with Forestry) Performance and Contribution to Economy: 2004-2010
AFF Sector
Performance (in %)
MTPDP Target
Actual Growth
Agri Gross Value
Added (in PhP M)
% Gross Value
Agri Employment (in
'000 persons)
% share to total
employment
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Average
4.0 5.0
5.2
4.2 5.2
2.0
4.2 5.2
3.8
4.0 5.0
4.9
4.3 5.2
3.1
5.1 6.2
0.01
5.2 6.2
(0.05)
4.4 5.4
2.6
226,417
230,954
239,777
251,495
259,410
259,081
258,081
245,508
19.6
19.1
18.8
18.4
18.3
18.1
16.8
18.4
11,381
11,628
11,682
11,785
12,030
12.043
11,974
11,789
36.0
36.0
35.8
35.1
35.3
34.3
33.2
35.1
Source: BAS, NSCB, 2011

Note: Revised growth target for 2008 and 2009 based on August 2008 DBCC Meeting
Substantially based on PDP 2011-2016, with data updated to 2010.
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2.2.2 Declining productivity and competitiveness

While the productivity of the agricultural workforce increased annually by an average of
1.66%, from PhP 19,894 in 2004 to PhP 21,553 in 2010, land productivity in terms of yields
of traditional crops (e.g., rice, corn, sugarcane, and coconut) stagnated or declined. The
Philippines now ranks fourth in rice, coconut, and sugarcane yield, and fifth in corn yield
among five ASEAN countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and
Vietnam (Table 2). The producer price of rice in the Philippines is the most expensive (US$
318.80/MT). Furthermore, growth in the countrys total factor productivity in agriculture has
remained at a low level of 0.2% per year over the past two decades, dramatically below the
1.0% in Thailand, 1.5% in Indonesia, and 4.7% in China (WB, 2010).
Table 2.Land Productivity in ASEAN Countries by Selected Commodities, 2009 (in mt/hectare)
Commodity
Rice (paddy)
Corn
Coffee (green)
Banana
Coconut
Mango, mangosteen, guava
Abaca
Papaya
Pineapple
Sugarcane
Vegetables (fresh)
Indonesia
5.0
4.2
0.7*
59.7
6.6*
11.6
1.0*
85.1
74.2
63.1
10.6
Malaysia
3.7
5.6
0.6*
21.8
2.8
4.1
no data
10.0
34.7
46.7
13.2
Land Productivity, 2009

Philippines
Thailand
3.6
2.9
2.6
4.2
0.8
1.0
20.2
13.6
4.6
5.8
4.1
8.0
0.5
no data
19.6
17.0
37.4
20.9
56.8
71.7
8.0
8.4
Vietnam
5.2
4.0
2.2*
14.3*
7.9*
7.1
no data
no data
13.0
58.6
12.6
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database

Note: *2008 data; 2009 is preliminary data
2.2.3 Comparative advantage not fully exploited

The country has a revealed comparative advantage, not only in its lead exports such as
coconut, banana, mango, and pineapple, but also in sugar, abaca, papaya, dried tropical
fruits, fresh fruits, and fresh vegetables (Table 3). Despite the export potential of these
commodities, however, particularly the emerging crops, the total value of Philippine
agricultural exports in 2010 was only US$4.1 billion while Indonesia, Malaysia and
Thailand had over US$20 billion each (Table 4). The contribution of agriculture to total
exports was also the lowest at 8.0%.
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Table 3.Revealed Comparative Advantage, 2009

Item
Indonesia
Agricultural Products, Total

Manila Fiber (Abaca)
Fruit Tropical Dried, Net
Coconut (copra) oil
Coconuts Desiccated
Mango Pulp
Pineapples, Canned
Juice of Pineapples
Pineapple Juice Concentrate
Bananas
Pineapples
Mangoes, mangosteens, guavas
Papayas
Mango Juice
Fruit + Vegetables
Coconuts
Vegetables fresh, net
Sugar, Total (Raw Equiv.) + (Total)
Food Excl Fish
Copra
Meat and Meat Prep
Maize
Rice Milled
Fruit, tropical fresh, net
Malaysia
2.34
0.13
0.00
28.57
10.99
0.00
12.65
0.00
4.89
0.00
0.00
0.12
0.07
0.00
0.37
26.61
0.05
0.00
2.33
10.90
0.02
0.08
0.01
1.69
Philippines
1.55
0.00
0.00
6.26
1.33
0.00
0.72
0.31
0.06
0.06
0.29
0.23
3.11
0.00
0.16
0.84
0.59
0.31
1.59
0.68
0.05
0.00
0.00
1.16
0.89
315.29
249.48
137.02
136.73
76.87
47.37
35.04
32.65
14.53
11.42
8.14
4.82
3.55
2.02
1.82
1.40
1.40
1.02
0.26
0.10
0.01
0.00
0.00
Thailand
Viet Nam
1.78
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.20
0.00
38.26
2.43
29.58
0.10
0.09
5.89
0.22
0.00
1.46
6.91
1.90
7.11
1.67
0.16
1.39
1.01
24.15
23.69
1.33
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
3.52
0.80
0.00
0.06
0.07
0.13
0.00
0.00
1.80
33.16
0.19
0.02
1.13
0.14
0.06
0.05
24.11
0.00
Source of data: Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database, 2012
Table 4.International Trade of Agricultural Products in the ASEAN Region

Country
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
Export
Value (in US $ B)
36.0
28.9
4.1
35.1
13.7
Import
% Share
22.8
14.5
8.0
18.0
18.9
Value (in US $ B)
15.6
16.1
6.8
12.0
3.3
% Share
11.0
9.7
11.7
6.6
33.7
Trade Balance
2010
20.4
12.8
(2.7)
23.1
10.4
Source: World Trade Organization
The country also continues to be the only agricultural net-importer among comparable
ASEAN members, with an agricultural trade deficit of US$2.7 billion in 2010. The total
value of agricultural imports amounted to US$6.8 billion, the top six agricultural imports
being rice, wheat, soya bean products, milk and cream products, tobacco, and urea.
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2.2.4 Elusive rice self-sufficiency

For the period 2004-2010, domestic rice production met only 84.7% of the countrys
annual average rice requirements, notwithstanding substantial public investments in the
rice sector (DA, 2011). During the global food crisis in 2008, the Philippines imported
some 2.4 million MT of rice, valued at US$1.9 billion, to supplement its domestic rice
stocks.
2.2.5 Increase in food commodities prices

The average increase in the prices of rice and corn were the highest among basic
commodities for the period 2004-2010, at 7.8% and 7.5%, respectively. This was largely
due to the global food crisis in 2008 which saw the retail price of rice increase by as much
as 29.1%. The 6.4% inflation in selected food commodities prices was higher compared to
the national headline inflation rate of 5.6%. Higher prices of food commodities erode
purchasing power, especially among the poor, and highlight the grave threats to food
security due to extreme shocks, affecting not only production, but also marketing systems.
2.2.6 Stagnant poverty headcount

Despite positive growth and gains in productivity in some subsectors, there has been
almost no change in the welfare of almost 6.4 million farmers, fishers, and other workers
dependent on agriculture and fisheries. The poverty incidence of families in the sector
changed slightly from 20.0% in 2004 to 20.9% in 2009, while poverty in terms of
population increased from 24.9% to 26.5%, respectively. This was despite an increase of
8.3% in real terms in the average income of the bottom 30% of families from 2006 to
2009.
2.3 Productivity Constraints

2.3.1 High cost of production inputs
Inputs, such as fertilizers and pesticides, typically account for 20% to 30% of the total
production cost of crops, while feeds account for as much as 70% of those of livestock and
poultry. As such, any change in the prices of these inputs directly translates into an
increase or decrease in the prices of agricultural commodities, especially at the farm level.
The increase in the international prices of commodities and the fuel price spike in 2008
contributed to the high prices of domestic fertilizer and corn. The price of fertilizer rose by
as much as 135% in 2008 compared to 2007 and contributed to a decrease of 2.2% in
palay production in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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2.3.2 Inefficient supply chain and logistics systems

Inefficiencies along the agricultural supply chain result in postharvest losses, higher
transaction and distribution costs, and lower productivity. The Philippine logistics system
has been characterized as being cost-inefficient, unresponsive to customers and market
requirements, and unreliable. Compared to developed countries, distribution and
processing costs in the country are 20% to 30% higher, with logistics costs accounting for
almost 30% to 40% of total marketing costs (NEDA-UNDP, 2005).
The ineffective logistics services, coupled with inappropriate postharvest handling, have
likewise resulted in huge postharvest losses. For rice and corn, 14.75% and 7.2% of total
production are lost during postharvest operations, respectively. Losses are even higher in
horticultural crops, with losses in fruits ranging from 5% to 48% and those in vegetables
falling within the range of from 16% to 40%. These postharvest losses, when translated
into monetary values, sizably reduce the income of farmers and their households (BPRE,
2010).
2.3.3 Inadequate provision of irrigation infrastructure

As of December 31, 2010, the total area provided with irrigation service measured
1,542,668 hectares (has), 49% of the potential irrigable area of 3,126,340 million has. Of
this service area, 767,006 hasor 49.7% are under national irrigation systems (NIS) and
558,333 has or 36.2% are under communal irrigation systems (CIS). The rest is irrigated
by small scale irrigation systems.
The pace of irrigation development in the country has been estimated at less than 1% per
year. While quick-gestating irrigation development activities, such as the rehabilitation
and improvement of existing systems and facilities, were envisioned to fast track irrigation
development, the sector remains hampered by lack of funds to sustainably operate and
maintain these irrigation systems, inadequate technical capacity of Irrigators Associations
(IA) and National Irrigation Authority (NIA) field personnel, as well as inadequate water
supply.
2.3.4 Low rate of adoption of technologies, including mechanization

Despite their availability, the adoption by farmers and, fishers of science and technology
packages and products, such as organic fertilizer, high-yielding varieties, cost-reducing
farming practices, and value-adding technologies, has been slow. This results from: (1)
weak links between technology producers and extension workers and farmers/fishers; (2)
the lack of awareness and knowledge among farmers and fishers of the existence of, and
benefits from, such technologies; and (3) financial or capacity constraints of the intended
users of these technologies, especially the small farmers and fishers. The use of
mechanization in Philippine agriculture has also been low. The current mechanization
level of the sector, which is 1.68 horsepower (hp)/hectare, is far below those of other
Asian countries such in Korea (4.11 hp/hectare) and China (3.88 hp/hectare). Among rice
and corn farmers, only 21.7% has mechanized their operations while the rest continue to
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use manual labor and farm animals in production activities (UPLB, 2009). The inadequacy
of after-sales service; substandard machinery; and the sporadic, fragmented, and
disorganized implementation of agricultural and fishery mechanization programs have
contributed to the low mechanization of the sector.
2.3.5 Limited access to formal credit and financing

In 2004-2009, the annual proportion of agri-fishery and forestry (AFF) loans to total loans
granted by banks was at a low average of 2.5%. The limited access to credit by small
farmers and fishers, despite the banking sector reportedly having allocated large amounts
of funds for lending to AFF activities, has been due to the farmers and fishers lack of: (1)
track record; (2) knowledge on the ways of accessing formal or bank financing,
particularly the putting together of the required documents; and (3) acceptable collateral.
It also results from the banks (1) reluctance to lend to the agriculture and fishery sector
because of the high-risk and low-income nature of agricultural projects, the high cost of
administering small loans, and the poor repayment performance of agricultural loans,
among others; (2) imposition of numerous documentary requirements for loan applications
and approvals; and (3) delayed release of loans (ACPC, 2010).
2.3.6 Competing uses of agricultural lands

Agriculture, together with the natural resource sector, has been adversely affected by shifts
in land use. Particularly sensitive for its implications on food security are the conversion
of prime agricultural lands to nonagricultural uses (i.e., residential, commercial and
institutional) and the rising demand for industrial crops (e.g., those used for the
manufacture of biofuel). Alternative land use activities have also encroached upon
ecologically fragile lands. These point to the need for a national land use policy that will
rationalize the optimal allocation of land among competing uses.
2.3.7 Vulnerability to weather risks and climate change

Since the 1980s, the growth in the agricultural gross value-added (GVA) has been erratic.
This has been partly due to the impact of severe weather conditions and the periodic
occurrence of the El Nio and La Nia phenomena. On top of those caused by typhoons
Ondoy and Pepeng in 2009, the El Nio phenomenon in 2010 caused damages to
agriculture and fishery estimated at PhP8.4 billion over a total area of 355,986 has.
Adding further pressure on agricultural production, which is already stressed by other
resource scarcities and economic challenges, are the effects of climate change, including
changing rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and intensity of
typhoons and dry spells, and sea level rise. These impacts will result in changes in
cropping calendars, unpredictability of yields, pest pressures, crop losses, livestock and
fisheries production declines, and damages to existing infrastructure. Sea level rise is
already being experienced in parts of the country, reducing the productive coastal areas for
agriculture and fisheries. Salt water intrusion in the lowlands and in aquifers for irrigation
and domestic uses is also already being experienced.
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And the situation is not going to get better. Scenarios from the Department of Science and
Technologys Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services
Administration (DOST-PAGASA) for 2020 and 2050 project widespread warming in most
parts of the country. Longer hot days and shorter cold days are expected. The number of
days with maximum temperatures of more than 35 C is expected to increase in all parts of
the country. The projected seasonal mean temperatures are expected to rise by about 0.5-0.9
C by 2020 and 1.2- 2.0 C by 2050. Extreme rainfall is also projected to increase in Luzon
and the Visayas while a decreasing trend is projected in Mindanao (MDGF-1656, 2010).
2.3.8 Environmental degradation

Of the countrys total land area, 5.2 million has (about 17%) are severely eroded and another
8.34 million has (27.3%) are vulnerable to drought, alternating with floods and typhoons,
annually. In the lowlands, the continued use of unsustainable production practices, such as
the extensive use of chemical inputs, expansion of grazing lands, slash and burn agriculture,
and deforestation, especially in watershed areas, have resulted in land degradation (i.e.,
erosion and declining soil fertility) and problems of water quality and availability. In the
upland ecosystem, climatic drivers and human-induced activities have resulted, not only in
land degradation, but also in the loss of biodiversity (BSWM, 2004).
2.4 Institutional and Policy Issues

2.4.1 Weak agricultural extension service
The decentralization of the agricultural extension service was pursued on the premise that
the constraints to production and the service requirements of farmers and fisheries would
be best addressed through a local government unit (LGU)-led, national government (NG)supported agriculture service system. The devolution, however, has been beleaguered by
poor absorptive capacities of LGUs for providing extension services. Moreover, together
with the social, infrastructure, and economic sectors, agriculture has been less prioritized
in the development agenda of many LGUs. Hence, funding allocation has been minimal
and oftentimes dependent on the support of the Department of Agriculture (DA). This has
resulted in inadequate manpower and weak extension services programs at both the
provincial and municipal levels (Balisacan, 2006) and, consequently, in the slow adoption
of appropriate production and post-production technologies.
2.4.2 Contradictory rice policy

Vested with the function of stabilizing the supply and prices of rice, the countrys staple,
the National Food Authoritys (NFAs) operations aim to raise farm gate prices to secure
farmers profit and, at the same time, maintain retail prices at an affordable level for
consumers. Government intervention on both sides of the market has led to huge public
losses, increased the volatility of domestic prices, reduced the welfare of both consumers
and producers, and discouraged the private sector from investing in distribution and
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storage facilities (Balisacan et al., 2006).

The NFA support price has, on average, led to an increase in consumer prices in ten
regions of the country and contributed little to price stabilization (Purdue University,
2005). It is worth noting that among NFA rice consumers, only 46.6% is considered poor.
In addition, among all poor households which are supposed to benefit from the availability
of low-priced NFA rice, only 24% have been able to access these (Reyes et al., 2009).
2.4.3 Incomplete implementation of asset reforms

The long period of implementation and pending completion of the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) has resulted in underinvestment in the sector, largely
owing to the uncertainty faced by landowners. Landowners are reluctant to invest while
their farms are in the process of being acquired by the government under the CARP. On
the other hand, in lands that have been awarded to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs),
support services to the beneficiaries are insufficient to improve productivity. The
implementation of asset reforms must therefore be completed in the next five years as
provided for in RA 9700, including the allocation and release of the PhP150 billion budget
for the program. The full implementation of the CARP will facilitate asset reform and
serve as an incentive to farmers and other stakeholders to invest in rural areas (Habito &
Briones, 2005).
2.4.4 Limited investments in public goods

Public goods are important because their benefits are shared by the community; they yield
high social returns on investment and have long-term impacts; and they are not readily
provided by the private sector but are nonetheless important to society as a whole. On the
other hand, other interventions, such as subsidies on fertilizer, have benefits that are
limited to target groups; have impacts which are short-run; are costly to government; and
do compete with, or crowd out, the private sector. The current spending on agricultural
research and development (R&D), a public good of demonstrated benefits, is a mere
0.10% of the agriculture GVA. This is one-tenth of the 1.0% benchmark suggested by
international practice. In the case of rice (which is indicative of the pattern for other
products), the contribution of R&D, extension, and infrastructure to rice production is
estimated at 2.5%, 15%, and 40%, respectively, while returns on investments are 77.1%
for R&D, 80% for extension, and 18% for irrigation (Balisacan, 2006).
Another public good market information has likewise merited limited public support.
In 2004-2010, funds allocated for marketing assistance accounted for only 1.1% of the
average annual budget of the DA. This is 7percentage points lower than the prescribed
allocation under the AFMA. Timely access to market and market-related information is
critical to making optimal business decisions that in turn impact on revenue, consumer
prices, and supply conditions. Moreover, the availability of real-time market intelligence is
useful in identifying potential markets and supply requirements.
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2.4.5 Limited investments on commodities with comparative advantage

While public investment for the rice sector has been substantial in the past years,
amounting to some 47% and 34% of the DA budgets in 2009 and 2010, respectively, the
allocations for high value and export commodities such as fruits, vegetables, tree crops,
and fisheries have been grossly insufficient. As a consequence, the country has not been
able to take full advantage of the comparative advantage it has in these commodities. The
production and productivity potentials of these commodities have been sorely left
unfulfilled because the appropriate technologies and affordable credit have not been
available. Moreover, long-standing institutional constraints in marketing have not been
addressed. Small producers, who comprise the majority, have not been able to link to
markets. They have not been able to deliver products in the quantity and quality required
by markets because they are not organized and have poor access to technical services,
market information, and financing. Regulatory services, which should protect against the
spread of pests and diseases and the proliferation of poor-quality inputs while ensuring
compliance by exporters with safety and quality standards, have been spotty, thus
compromising sector productivity and competiveness.
Yet, net returns from vegetable and fruit tree production are higher than those from rice
production by a range of PhP5,000-PhP100,000 per ha (BAS, 2009). The opportunity cost
of under-investing in other commodities is therefore very high. Focusing on commodities
where we have comparative advantage will result in increasing incomes and therefore
higher purchasing power and improved access to food for producers and enhanced overall
welfare of the rural sector.
2.4.6 Incomplete implementation of the Strategic Agriculture and

Fishery Development Zones and Preparation of Integrated
Development Plans
The identification of strategic agriculture and fishery development zones (SAFDZs), as
provided for under AFMA, has not been fully implemented (AFMA Review, 2007). This has
limited the ability of government to focus on areas of high agriculture potential and thus avoid
spreading investments too thinly and dissipating impact in the rural areas. The identification of
these areas should be initiated by LGUs, with technical support from the DA and Department
of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to ensure that priorities are consistent with
local development thrusts and strategies, while being aligned with national policies.
2.4.7 Delay in the implementation of rationalization plans

Efficient and effective governance of the sector requires efficient and effective institutions and
bureaucracy. However, the countrys agricultural bureaucracy is continuously beset with
problems related to over-centralization, fragmentation of agencies, weak coordination,
overlapping of functions, politicization, and corruption, making it ineffective in spurring
growth and development for the sector (Habito and Briones, 2005). At the national level, there
is a need for the DA to focus its core functions on public goods and services, such as R&D
extension, and regulation; and maintain its steering role in the development of the sector.
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CHAPTER 3
Where We Want to Go: Our Vision, Goals
and Targets
3.1 Vision and Commitment
The PDP envisions the creation of a competitive, sustainable and technology-based
agriculture and fisheries sector, driven by productive and progressive farmers and fishers,
supported by efficient value chains and well-integrated in the domestic and international
markets, contributing to inclusive growth and poverty reduction.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan (AFMP) 2011-2017 subscribes to this
vision and we, at the DA, commit to devote the requisite effort and resources for its
achievement. We will help enable farmers and fishers to use productive and cost-efficient
technologies to produce, not only more, but better quality, products in a sustainable
manner. We will support strategically-important value chains, not only to appropriately
transform and/or package and efficiently move agricultural and fishery products following
market demands, but also to ensure that producers have consistent and reliable buyers and
to create an environment that ensures that small producers receive a fair share of the
market returns, thus increasing livelihood opportunities in rural areas. We will assist the
sector to become increasingly competitive, resilient and sustainable, thereby ensuring that
it fully contributes to inclusive growth and poverty reduction.
All these we commit to accomplish with a culture of performance, using this AFMP as
the objective basis for monitoring and evaluating the outputs and outcomes of our
programs, projects, and activities and their impact on the well-being of the sector and its
stakeholders, particularly the small farmers and fishers and their families.
3.2 Goals and Targets

With our vision in mind, we set the following goals for the AFMP 2011-2017:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Raise rural incomes,

Ensure food security,
Enhance global competitiveness, and
Increase sustainability and resilience.
We target to raise farmers and fishers incomes by 2% to 4% annually during the plan
period. We target to achieve 100% rice self sufficiency by 2013 and increase agriculture
and fisheries GVA by from 4.3 % to 5.3% annually from 2011 to 2017. We further target
to increase the total value of agriculture exports by 10% annually from 2013 to 2016. Our
productivity targets by commodity are shown in the following table.
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Table 5.National Targets in Agriculture

Indicators/Unit
Objectively Verifiable Indicators (targets)

2013
2014
2015
2016
2012
2017
Row 1: Goal
Farmers and fishers incomes
Increase in real/cap income (%)
Food security
Rice sufficiency (%)
Growth in agriculture and fisheries
Increase in gross value added (%)
Climate change resilience
Resilience index for palay (minimum)
Resilience index for corn (minimum)
Resilience index for livestock and
poultry (minimum)
2.0-4.0
91.9
100
100
100
100
100
4.3-5.3
4.3-5.3
4.3-5.3
4.3-5.3
4.3-5.3
4.3-5.3
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
0.95
10
15
20
25
10
10
10
10
10
10
4.03
4.23
4.43
4.48
4.53
4.57
1.79
3.40
1.94
3.57
2.88
3.94
3.08
4.08
3.17
4.18
3.27
4.28
1,975
81
149
259
1,492
33
2,015
83
151
261
1,576
34
2,059
86
154
264
1,665
34
2,111
89
157
266
1,762
34
2,174
92
161
269
1,868
34
2,243
96
165
272
1,984
35
21.91
0.88
40.73
4.51
58.05
0.80
0.57
22.55
0.90
41.92
4.64
62.29
0.82
0.59
23.20
0.92
43.13
4.78
66.52
0.84
0.61
23.88
0.94
44.38
4.92
70.76
0.87
0.62
24.57
1.00
45.67
5.06
75.00
0.88
0.70
25.28
10.35
12.26
16.02
11.54
10.65
12.62
16.48
11.87
10.96
12.99
16.96
12.22
11.28
13.36
17.45
12.57
11.61
13.75
17.96
12.94
11.94
14.15
18.48
13.31
1,342
1,447
2,776
1,401
1,497
2,882
1,470
1,551
2,994
1,547
1,611
3,116
1,629
1,675
3,244
Client satisfaction with services

Percentage points increase (from base
year)
Increase in exports value
Percent
2.0-4.0
Row 2: Purpose
Productivity
1. Palay (mt/ha)
2. Corn (mt/ha)
White
Yellow
3. Livestock (000 mt)
Swine
Goat
Carabao
Cattle
Chicken
Duck
4. HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana
Coconut (copra)
Pineapple
Mango
Sugarcane
Coffee
Cacao
Vegetables
Eggplant
Tomato
Cabbage
Cauliflower
5. Fishery (000 mt)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
47.56
5.21
0.90
0.74
Resilience index = production volume for year / average production volume in previous two years
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CHAPTER 4
How We Shall Achieve Our Vision: Our
Planning Framework
This AFMP translates its goals and targets into operational terms through a plan of action
that is consistent, not only with the strategies identified in Chapter 4 of the PDP 20112016, but also with the principles and practices for DA programs embodied in Agri-Pinoy
2011 aswell as the policy and action framework espoused in the AFMA. The plan of
action, organized by function, by commodity program, and by region, embodies a
strategic and consistent basis and context for prudently allocating the DAs limited, though
increasing, budgetary resources from year to year over the medium term.
This AFMP is the product of top-down and bottom-up planning processes. Overall goals,
targets and priority strategies were set centrally in response to national development needs
and aspirations. These became the elements of a planning framework which was then
expressed as interventions that consider specific conditions, established capabilities,
expressed concerns, and determined needs at the sub-national and local levels.
In addition to the goals and targets, the planning framework established a set of principles
to govern the drafting of the plan of action of this AFMP.
4.1 Sustainable Modernization

First, the AFMP is a plan for the modernization of the agriculture and fisheries sector.
Modernization is defined as: the process of transforming the agriculture and fisheries
sectors into one that is dynamic, technologically advanced and competitive yet centered on
human development, guided by the sound practices of sustainability and the principles of
social justice.2
Value chain development is adopted as the primary approach towards sector modernization.
This AFMP promotes value addition to products and supports more efficient linkages
among producers, processors, marketing channels, and consumers. It advances the use of
efficient and sustainable production and post-harvest technologies and the processing of
high-value commodities. It supports value-adding entrepreneurship and a market-driven
orientation to balance well-funded production systems. This AFMP promotes value chain
development, not only to enhance productivity and competiveness of the sector, but also to
increase, with equitable sharing, incomes of the various chain participants as well as create
income opportunities for men and women outside the mainstream.
AFMA, Section 4 Definition of Terms.
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This AFMP also highlights the importance of resilience and sustainability in achieving
modernization. Aware that the sector is highly vulnerable to climate variability, especially
extreme events like droughts and strong typhoons, and that such variability and events are
expected to intensify in the future, it includes a number of significant innovative measures
to respond to climate change while mainstreaming climate change adaptation and risk
reduction in the various interventions to ensure sector resilience. It also supports the sound
utilization and management of resources and the use of earth-friendly production
technologies to arrest and correct widespread land and water degradation.
4.2 Broad-based Involvement with Sharpened Roles

Second, this AFMP harnesses broad-based involvement and participation in the pursuit of
sector modernization.
The most important of the entities it seeks involvement with, and participation from, are
the LGUs to whom the Local Government Code devolved the responsibility of providing
most production support services and facilities to farmers and fishers. It promotes DALGU engagement through partnerships governed by consistent, accountable and
transparent policies and procedures on program/project development, cost-sharing,
procurement, financial management, and monitoring and evaluation. Underpinning this
engagement is the framework that provides for the DA to perform steering functions
setting development directions and enabling LGUs to more proactively perform rowing
functions in providing frontline services directly
to farmers and fishers (Figure 1). For the DA, this
Figure 1. National-Local Governance Framework
means that it has to reorient the way it views its
role in the development and growth of the
DA
agriculture and fisheries sector and, consequently,
Steering
role:
enabling
completely devolve to the LGUs those functions,
Client:
LGUs
which are not steering but are, in fact, rowing.
Subsequently, it has to retool so that it can more
effectively and efficiently assume its steering
LGUs
functions. The functions with which the DA
Rowing role: provision of frontline
enables LGUs to provide services to farmers and
services
fishers are: (a) infrastructure support; (b) research
Clients: farmers & fishers
and development, and extension, including
agribusiness and market development services; (c)
regulation; and (d) policy and planning.
Under this framework, DA-LGU engagement is facilitated through cost-sharing for
agriculture and fisheries programs, projects, and activities. For the plan period, the DA
will follow a rational and standardized cost-sharing scheme that is calibrated based on the
financial capacity of the LGU and the type of service or facility being financed. Outright
grants for a substantial portion of the cost of LGU projects will be avoided as this
arrangement will continually (1) overwhelm the DA with excess LGU demand; and (2
encourage the attitude of financial dependence on central government among LGUs, in the
process retarding LGU growth and development. The PDP noted that agriculture has been
less prioritized in the development agenda of many LGUs. 3 In this regard, the DA-LGU
3
PDP, Chapter 4, page 105.
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cost-sharing scheme will enable the LGUs to effectively leverage DA resources and
motivate them to accord higher priority to the local agriculture and fisheries sector.
The DA will also encourage and nurture the involvement and participation of the private
sector, especially those segments of the private sector that are engaged in the agriculture
and fisheries sector. In doing so, it will make clearer distinction between private and
public goods and will focus more and more on the effective delivery of lumpy public
goods requiring large investments like farm-to-market roads, fish ports and large abattoirs,
leaving to the private sector the provision of private goods such as seeds, fertilizer, postharvest facilities, and farm equipment. It shall use its investments to complement and/or
guide those of the private sector in investment destinations of interest to it. It shall also
use other policy instruments and an incentive structure that shall induce the private sector
to actively participate in, and fully support, DA programs, particularly in the delivery of
private goods.
The plan period will see a transition during which the DA will gradually phase itself out
of providing production support in the form of seeds, fertilizer, and other inputs. It will
continue, however, providing support for postharvest and value-adding facilities through
cost-sharing schemes, although with progressively diminishing resources.
4.3 Efficiency through Convergence and Knowledge

Management
Building on the National Convergence Initiative (NCI), this AFMP promotes coordination,
harmonization and, to the extent possible, integration among similar or inter-related
programs, projects, and activities of the DA, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), as a way of reducing sectorwide transactions costs in the delivery of responsive, timely and quality public services
and investments to target rural beneficiaries. Thus, the DA will converge with DAR on
interventions relevant to increasing entrepreneurship among small farmers and other
agricultural producers. It will, moreover, converge with DENR on measures pertinent to
the pursuit of sustainability/natural resource management and resiliency to climate change.
The DA will also expand its convergence efforts and include such other agencies as the
Departments of Trade and Industry, Science and Technology and Transportation and
Communication, and the Interior and Local Government (DTI, DOST, DOTC, and
DILG), as well as state universities and colleges (SUCs) as may be required for the
efficient developmentof value chains.
Finally, this AFMP supports knowledge management as a means to ensure a more
efficient and effective program and project planning and implementation. It underscores
the continuing documentation and application of lessons learned from experience in the
formulation and implementation of the previous AFMP, the Departments banner
programs, major foreign-assisted projects, and global best practices.
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CHAPTER 5
What We Shall Do: Priority Interventions
by Core Function
5.1 Infrastructure Support
5.1.1 National and Communal Irrigation Systems
The DA will accelerate the development of national and communal irrigation systems as a
critical component of its Food Staple Sufficiency Program (FSSP) which aims to achieve
food self-sufficiency for the country by 2013 and sustain self-sufficiency levels thereafter.
To this end, NIA will:
1. Fast track the conduct of project preparation activities (feasibility studies and
detailed engineering) for potential irrigation projects.This will entail (a) the
identification, survey, and design of potential short-gestating, small-scale areagenerating construction projects for the most critical years of 2012 and 2013; (b)
the assessment, survey, and design of improvement/upgrading projects that
generate new, restore non-functioning, and sustain functioning areas; and (c) the
establishment of performance-supporting actions such as the conduct of technical
briefings and the mobilization of focal task forces and project assessors to ensure
the completion of pre-construction activities, which includes project preparation,
validation and procurement, and rights-of-way acquisition.
2. Accelerate the generation of new areas, the restoration of non-functioning areas,
and the rehabilitation of existing irrigation facilities. The construction of new
irrigation systems will prioritize short-gestating projects and/or the expansion of
existing systems and in the less developed regions. The implementation of largescale projects will be confined to priority production areas and geared toward the
generation of new areas and the improvement of the efficiency of existing systems.
Restoration works will cover the non-functional service areas of national and
communal irrigation systems (NIS and CIS).
3. Increase the adaptability of systems to extreme changes in weather conditions.
This will involve, among other measures, the construction of water impounding
facilities with dam crests of over 15 meters, the construction of drainage canals
that channels excess water to rivers or creeks, and the improvement of waterways.
NIA will also seek to enhance the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems by
attending to the following:
1. Timely and adequate repairs of irrigation systems;
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2. Improvement of operation and maintenance of irrigation systems resulting in

higher irrigated areas and irrigation cropping intensities;
3. Adoption of performance-enhancing irrigation modernization and water saving
irrigation methods;
4. Promotion of rice-intensifying cropping pattern and crop yield-enhancing farming
system to increase palay production; and
5. Enhancement of institutional development programs for the organization,
capability-building, and strengthening of irrigators associations (IAs).
Output Targets
Some 678,000 additional hectares will be irrigated from 2011 to 2017 through
development and restoration of national and communal irrigation systems (Tables 6a and
6b). Irrigation systems will be rehabilitated to generate some 587,000 more hectares
(Tables 7a and 7b). Some 1.07 million farmers are expected to benefit from these efforts.
Table 6a. Irrigation Service Area Generated and Restored, National Irrigation Systems
TOTAL
CAR
RFU I
RFU II
RFU III
RFU IV-A
RFU IV-B
RFU V
RFU VI
RFU VII
RFU VIII
RFU IX
RFU X
RFU XI
RFU XII
RFU XIII
ARMM
2011
42,426
771
6,211
3,027
8,902
1,543
829
1,515
1,590
60
3,463
240
4,461
1,116
3,108
2,205
3,385
Output:Service Area Generated and

2012
2013
2014
75,618
49,289
45,891
1,162
2,211
2,585
9,499
8,333
8,358
12,461
8,513
7,204
7,701
3,941
9,122
1,307
890
95
1,626
5,536
550
1,393
1,479
1,757
2,338
2,478
2,620
540
390
2,685
5,872
1,513
2,803
1,617
1,392
10
3,874
1,587
215
579
1,956
2,077
4,806
2,694
2,123
13,533
4,936
3,687
7,310
1,440
-
Restored (hectares)
2015
2016
44,769
66,046
990
150
4,620
1,725
14,074
17,576
9,318
36,021
25
15
273
725
982
339
624
2,720
4,620
1,500
983
168
300
3,157
2,000
5,343
1,517
1,050
-
2017
36,363
120
1,997
9,600
10,612
1,561
1,306
940
4,620
350
780
23
1,000
3,454
-
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Table 6b. Irrigation Service Area Generated and Restored, Communal Irrigation Systems
Output:Service Area Generated and Restored (hectares)*
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
TOTAL
19,568
59,622
63,465
51,943
44,157
37,029
CAR
766
3,356
1,555
4,277
3,034
1,120
RFU I
356
1,478
2,410
1,957
1,031
865
RFU II
2,554
5,610
13,912
4,982
4,101
3,459
RFU III
580
4,431
8,690
5,741
4,407
2,708
RFU IV-A
633
582
1,271
2,117
834
629
RFU IV-B
1,368
1,716
3,895
3,245
2,788
1,886
RFU V
658
6,705
5,979
5,093
5,794
7,201
RFU VI
1,563
6,607
3,941
2,891
2,951
7,726
RFU VII
367
2,486
2,177
6,064
2,542
2,159
RFU VIII
3,280
5,090
5,591
3,677
2,936
2,757
RFU IX
727
6,957
1,249
1,453
4,815
1,494
RFU X
2,330
2,816
2,837
843
153
90
RFU XI
890
3,060
2,125
5,314
4,399
2,020
RFU XII
1,691
6,942
3,876
2,484
2,155
1,578
RFU XIII
1,805
1,786
2,954
1,805
2,217
1,337
ARMM
1,003
*Includes targets for NIA and other fund sources (e.g. MRDP)
2017
41,995
1,270
1,088
4,936
9,873
771
6,295
1,835
948
2,159
876
3,367
45
3,074
1,096
4,362
-
Table 7a. Irrigation Service Area Rehabilitated, National Irrigation Systems
TOTAL
CAR
RFU I
RFU II
RFU III
RFU IV-A
RFU IV-B
RFU V
RFU VI
RFU VII
RFU VIII
RFU IX
RFU X
RFU XI
RFU XII
RFU XIII
ARMM
2011
69,215
3,683
2,484
11,891
13,753
1,203
2,583
2,793
7,263
370
2,014
1,810
4,205
1,925
8,967
1,395
2,876
Output:Service Area Rehabilitated (hectares)

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
59,612
91,988
73,479
49,677
56,184
506
400
3,148
6,401
7,406
4,250
5,883
32,237
51,003
24,625
9,500
11,100
2,767
11,364
15,590
17,713
29,384
1,853
3,075
9,695
2,881
3,306
449
2,185
1,904
553
1,090
854
732
2,446
9,463
8,450
8,750
2,200
1,160
40
400
400
350
1,276
2,742
900
900
920
749
214
317
250
84
91
650
410
200
50
1,604
3,795
2,325
1,490
680
1,600
7,866
630
801
1,654
685
2,480
64
-
2017
67,029
2,000
4,040
18,850
30,145
4,078
1,926
350
650
2,500
490
2,000
-
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Table 7b. Irrigation Service Area Rehabilitated, Communal Irrigation Systems

Output:Service Area Rehabilitated (hectares)*
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
TOTAL
29,070
30,236
14,415
15,580
10,767
5,684
CAR
3,860
1,637
1,367
243
398
130
RFU I
3,164
430
620
729
545
200
RFU II
2,185
3,308
2,152
268
45
RFU III
1,329
20
851
3,310
2,953
1,425
RFU IV-A
1,443
93
344
1,144
378
653
RFU IV-B
587
168
1,691
1,314
308
5
RFU V
3,398
2,480
3,500
2,308
1,671
453
RFU VI
342
1,589
180
30
30
63
RFU VII
1,603
574
427
450
126
200
RFU VIII
2,004
957
175
690
319
317
RFU IX
1,726
2,312
633
864
1,919
1,037
RFU X
2,207
3,397
1,008
1,155
90
RFU XI
2,801
1,479
220
RFU XII
1,512
11,301
200
2,553
1,076
1,152
RFU XIII
909
491
905
522
909
49
ARMM
142
*Includes targets for NIA and other fund sources (e.g. MRDP)
2017
14,218
1,667
200
2,846
877
4,812
6
200
372
928
120
640
1,550
-
Financial requirements
The total funding requirement for preparatory activities, as well as the construction, repair
and rehabilitation of irrigation systems during the whole plan period will be PhP
182billion. Of this, PhP 65billion will be needed from 2011 to 2013 while PhP 117billion
will be required from 2014 to 2017.
5.1.2 Small Scale Irrigation Projects

The DA will also support the development of small-scale irrigation projects (SSIPs),
which boost productivity in small areas not served by NIA by:
1. Providing adequate water throughout the growing season, thus contributing to
higher yields by eliminating water deficiencies and providing some measure of
drought protection;
2. Securing at least one cropping, by making water available in areas where rainfall is
inadequate or highly variable;
3. Supplementing rainfall in humid regions, thus allowing area expansion, which in
turn, ensures high yields;
4. Reducing problems of flooding and water logging; and
5. Improving the quality of soils through leaching and drainage, especially in the case
of tube well irrigation.
The need to invest in smaller irrigation systems is even more compelling given the
increasing recurrence of extreme weather conditions and the threats posed by climate
change, all of which magnifies the risks these systems address.
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The various types of SSIPs are small water impounding projects (SWIPs), small farm
reservoirs (SFRs), diversion dams (DDs), shallow tube wells (STWs), pump irrigation
systems for open source (PISOSs), spring developments (SDs), and alternative irrigation
systems (ram pumps, solar pumps, and wind pumps).
The DA will adopt the Integrated Watershed Management Approach in establishing
SSIPs. This approach, which is illustrated in Figure 1 below, ensures that appropriate
water management strategies are developed based on the inherent physical properties of
the ecosystem along the watershed area.
Figure 2.The Integrated Watershed Management Approach
In supporting the development of SSIPs, the DA will focus on the:

1. Development of community- and individually-managed on-farm rainwater harvesting
facilities;
2. Rehabilitation and improvement of existing SSIPs;
3. Enhancement of efficiencies in the distribution system of irrigation facilities
through the concreting of canals and the use of polyethylene pipes and plastic
drums, to reduce losses and improve water delivery;
4. Rehabilitation and protection of the watersheds of irrigation systems;
5. Strengthening of institutional arrangements among the DA, LGU and IAs on the
operation and maintenance and monitoring and evaluation of irrigation systems,
among others;
6. Strengthening of the capacities of IAs to operate and maintain irrigation systems
and to adopt water-saving practices and technologies, crop diversification and
integrated agriculture; and
7. Provision of support for research and development including evaluation studies.
Output Targets
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The output targets with respect to SSIPs are shown in Table 8. Among others, the DA will:
1. Construct new and rehabilitate existing SWIPs, SFRs and DDs;
2. Distribute pump and engine sets for STWs and PISOS, drilling rigs for the
installation of P&Es, high density polyethylene pipe and water plastic drums;
3. Support the installation of spring irrigation systems and open ring/wells; and
4. Install alternative irrigation systems that include ram, wind, and solar-powered
pumps and drip and sprinkler systems
These will service at least 55,000 hectares and benefit some 479, 000 farmers.
Table 6. Number of SSIPS Installed
SSIPs
Output: Number of SSIPs installed

2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
579
4,647
2,024
5,473
4,916
4,938
4,128
CAR
15
276
120
134
138
152
152
RFU I
15
977
252
262
268
271
271
RFU II
95
1,572
158
2,132
2,043
2,198
1,211
RFU III
173
428
1,032
1,017
1,182
1,327
RFU IV-A
26
208
81
55
63
63
65
RFU IV-B
12
260
119
109
117
129
128
RFU V
198
71
57
64
75
75
RFU VI
11
210
319
194
220
190
172
RFU VII
138
91
81
118
109
169
RFU VIII
167
315
148
151
156
159
RFU IX
19
65
69
62
65
72
72
RFU X
14
29
28
810
319
21
RFU XI
13
23
110
87
75
77
79
RFU XII
321
313
233
233
181
179
150
RFU XIII
34
83
77
77
77
77
ARMM
TOTAL
Inputs
A total of PhP 12.2billion will be needed to deliver the above outputs. Some PhP 4.2
billion will be needed from 2011 to 2013 and PhP 8.0 billion in 2014-2017.
5.1.3 Farm-to-Market Road Development Program (FMRDP)

The DA will support the construction and rehabilitation or repair of farm-to-market roads
(FMRs) that are located within key production areas, marginal lands, or new lands under
convergence initiatives to link these areas to higher road class systems; primary assembly
areas and major markets/trading posts, fish landing sites, fishing ports, fishpond/fish cage
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areas and mariculture zones; and post-harvest facilities and processing zones/industries.
This will be pursued to:
1. Pave the way for the speedy and convenient transport of agricultural produce
within and outside the production areas;
2. Reduce postharvest losses during the transport of farm produce to markets, hence,
increasing the price received by producers;
3. Promote agriculture related activities; and
4. Improve farmers and fishers livelihood and increase their incomes.
The DA is likewise mindful that supporting FMR development will
1. Contribute to the generation of jobs, with an average of 3 jobs (persons) being
created for every PhP 1 million worth of project undertaken;
2. Improve access to other government services; and
3. Improve the living conditions and peace and order situation in areas where FMRs
are constructed.
To minimize political intervention and ensure that projects deliver quality FMRs, the DA
will develop and implement transparent procedures for the assessment, selection, and
prioritization of proposed projects. Proponents will be required to submit, in prescribed
templates, basic information and maps which will then be validated. The DA will give
priority to the concreting, as opposed to gravelling, of existing FMRs in compliance with
the instruction of the President to construct quality roads that last longer.
The DA plans to construct and repair some 12,000 kilometers (kms) of FMRs in the plan
period with 5,900 kms in 20112013 and another 6,100 kms from 2014 to 2017.
Table 7. Farm-to-Market Roads Constructed and Repaired
FMRs
RFU Consolidated
2011
2012
Output: Kilometers*
2013**
2014
2015
2016
2017
1,454
2,381
2,073
1,330
1,461
1,616
1,732
CAR
42
251
47
45
52
60
83
RFU I
84
48
40
74
85
95
105
RFU II
116
57
45
166
183
205
225
RFU III
257
95
55
131
150
166
179
RFU IV-A
24
102
94
20
23
25
27
RFU IV-B
59
83
37
49
57
64
70
RFU V
67
108
88
57
66
73
81
RFU VI
136
85
92
116
138
158
175
RFU VII
22
41
59
19
21
24
26
RFU VIII
67
106
75
53
60
67
72
RFU IX
33
461
209
112
104
115
126
RFU X
68
191
111
81
85
90
94
RFU XI
91
141
429
71
80
78
70
RFU XII
272
129
287
265
285
312
307
RFU XIII
72
441
368
32
31
35
39
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FMRs
ARMM
2011
2012
44
43
Output: Kilometers*
2013**
2014
37
38
2015
2016
2017
43
48
52
*Includes FMR regular and other fund sources (e.g. MRDP, SELAP, etc)
**Includes targets for bottom-up planning and budgeting as well as PAMANA
The DA will need some PhP 65 billion for the construction and repair of FMRs, of which
about PhP 24.2 billion is programmed for the period 20112013 and the remaining PhP
40.8 billion for the period from 2014 to 2017.
5.1.4 Postharvest Facilities and Other Infrastructure

The DA, through the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization
(PhilMech), will promote the development of mechanization and post-harvest technologies to:
1. Reduce postharvest losses, maintain quality and increase the value of agricultural
and fishery commodities, and ensure food safety; and
2. Increase the resource use efficiency and productivity of farmers and fishers.
Towards these ends, PhilMech will take the lead in the formulation and execution of a
development program focused on enabling entrepreneurs, especially the smallholders, to
engage in profitable mechanization and postharvest handling and processing business
activities. The program will:
1. Generate, extend, and commercialize appropriate mechanization and
postproduction technologies and practices;
2. Adopt comprehensive training, extension and applied communication approaches
and strategies;
3. Aggressively build strategic alliances with DA regional field units (RFUs), LGUs,
the academe, equipment manufacturers, and other relevant local and international
institutions;
4. Strengthen and modernize data collection and analysis to support a more effective
and efficient formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of
various interventions;
5. Use value chain analysis and assessment of end-users economic and technical
capability to guide the selection of equipment to be supported or provided;
6. Engage the local manufacturing sector to trigger research and investment in locally
produced technologies that are globally competitive;
7. Coordinate with the DOST to access commercially-ready processing techniques
and facilities; and
8. Strengthen the participation of various stakeholders in the planning and execution
of plans and programs.
PhilMech will give greater focus on developing and establishing viable postharvest and
processing enterprise models to offer immediate solutions to the postharvest issues of
farmers and fishers. With its support, RFUs and other DA units will distribute or set up
postharvest and storage facilities under various management and ownership arrangements,
and provide technical and business advisory services as well as necessary skills training on
the proper use of the technologies. Its other actions to enhance the enterprise include
coaching and mentoring of investors, establishing strategic alliances, and identifying
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market potentials. The experience in supporting these enterprises will be documented and
maintained in a database for reference in the evaluation of existing support, as well as in
the planning of future support for such enterprises.
For the plan period, the DAs strategic interventions will include the provision of
processing and treatment plants, cold storage facilities, drying facilities and equipment,
and other postharvest and processing equipment, such as shellers, chippers, shredders, and
de-pulpers for high value crops. It will also provide for mechanical shellers, village-type
dryers, hermetic cocoons, corn mills, hammer mills, community-based drying centers,
silos, postharvest processing and trading centers, and dryers in corn areas. The support
equipment to be provided for cassava include granulators, granulator-cum-shredders,
chippers, graters, and vacuum pack sealers. For rice farmers, the following will be
provided: biomass furnaces, village-type PH centers, postharvest processing and trading
centers, and mechanical dryers. For the livestock and poultry subsectors, abattoirs and
slaughterhouses, biogas digesters, milk collection equipment, and chilling and processing
centers will be established or upgraded. Meanwhile, ice plants, cold storage facilities,
reefer vans, solar dryers, curing barns, and vacuum sealers will comprise the facility and
equipment support for the fishers.
Outputs
The output targets are shown in Table 10.
Table 8. Other Infrastructure, Facilities and Equipment Installed
Other Infrastructure and Postharvest
Facilities, Equipment and Machinery
2011
2012
Drying Facilities*
34,423 104,260
Storage Facilities**
946
334
Beneficiaries
734,473 863,272
* Recirculating dryers, flatbed dryers, mechanical dryers,corncob
Biomass furnace dryers, fish solar dryer
** Warehouses, mini warehouses, palay shed, cold chain facility
Outputs
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
33,219
5,188
5,600
6,355
3,782
442
412
415
416
1,338
693,318 630,704 607,023 732,503 793,635
dryers, cassava dryers, MPDP, Village type dryers,
Inputs
Some PhP 42.4 billion is needed for other infrastructure and postharvest facilities,
equipment and machinery during the plan period. Of this amount, PhP 13.0 billion is
needed from 2011 to 2013 and PhP 29.4 billion for 2014-2017.
The summary of budget requirements by year for infrastructure and equipment support is
shown in Table 11.
Table 9. Inputs for Infrastructure and Facilities Support
Infrastructure and
Facilities Support
NIS/CIS construction,
restoration, rehabilitation
SSIPs
2011
2012
2013
Budget (P000)
2014
13,882,732
24,457,549
27,076,048
34,334,503
33,621,284
25,996,843
22,676,339
577,485
1,528,979
2,092,381
2,038,078
2,063,737
2,009,836
1,912,248
2015
2016
2017
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FMRs
Other Infrastructure and
Postharvest Facilities,
Equipment and Machinery
Total
3,577,385
8,212,213
12,404,192
8,625,814
9,656,465
10,834,765
11,761,816
2,121,654
5,092,689
5,808,352
7,287,653
7,411,227
7,471,266
7,215,834
20,159,256
39,291,429
47,380,973
52,286,049
52,752,713
46,312,710
43,566,236
5.2 Research and Development, and Extension

5.2.1 Research and Development Services
The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR), which is the central coordinating agency for
the R&D initiatives of the DA and the entire National R&D System for Agriculture and
Fisheries (NaRDSAF), will continue to coordinate and fund the conduct of agriculture and
fishery research and development activities. The management of such resources will be
anchored on an integrated R&D masterplan or the Research and Development, and
Extension Agenda and Programs (RDEAP) which sets the overall directions and action plan
for R&D along commodity sector and thematic lines as strategically guided by the PDP.
In terms of agenda implementation, the DA national research centers and the SUCs will
focus on the conduct of basic/applied researches. The DA-RFUs, particularly the DA
Regional Integrated Agricultural Research Centers (RIARCs) and the DA-Bureau of
Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Fisheries Research and Development
Centers (RFRDCs), will concentrate on adaptation research and on-farm trials as
downstream modalities to refine technologies generated by research agencies, these
technologies being focused on priority commodities in their respective areas in support to
technology transfer, commercialization and, ultimately, adoption.
Relevant and innovative technology and information generation
BAR will give funding priority to applied research aimed at creating significant impacts
on the lives of the farmers and fishers and stimulate rural development through
community-based approaches. It will, to a lesser extent, also support the conduct of basic
or upstream research that is aimed at addressing persistent and emerging issues and
concerns in the sector. Furthermore, the other R&D implementing units of the DA will
continue to conduct R&D activities to greatly enhance production support, irrigation, postharvest, credit, guarantee and insurance, extension and marketing, as well as policy
support and advocacy.
A number of production-related R&D activities will be conducted in 2011-2017. An

important focus of these R&D activities will be those using biotechnology which remains
a competent tool to address the needs and challenges of the countrys agriculture and
fisheries sector. With its diverse applications and innovative approach, the DA recognizes
it as an instrument to provide long-term solutions to some of our major crop and livestock
production problems and thus help achieve food security and productivity targets. Thus,
together with the DA-Biotechnology Project Implementation Unit, BAR will continue to
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support and harness biotechnology in developing the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and

cosmeceutical uses of natural ingredients extracted from agriculture and fisheries
commodities. It will also support applied biotechnology studies such as varietal
improvement, vaccine development and genetic resource utilization for improving crop
yield, resistance to pests, and adaptation to climate change.
Characterization, evaluation, organic fertilization, cultural management in response to
climate change, crop-livestock systems, vulnerability assessments, and risk management
studies will be given emphasis by the different R&D implementing units of the
Department.
As mechanization is vital in maximizing the efficiency of post-harvest systems, a number
of postharvest-related R&D activities will be implemented. These activities will mainly
be those of PhilMech which focuses on the development of technologies on drying,
dehydration, handling, storage and processing, and agri-waste and by-product utilization,
among others.
Support will also be provided to irrigation-related R&D activities with emphasis on (1)
water resources assessment, conservation and management; (2) irrigation and water
resources development; (3) soil/land resources assessment, conservation management; and
(4) organic-based farming, soil fertility and plant nutrition. These activities will be
conducted by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) and the DA-RFUs.
To ensure the efficient and effective delivery of agribusiness and marketing assistance to
farmers, fishers and other stakeholders, the Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance
Service (AMAS) will strengthen its R&D on the conduct of market research,
benchmarking, competitiveness analyses, and market trends of priority commodities. BAR
will complement these efforts by conducting studies that would strategically mainstream,
promote and utilize and transfer mature technologies to areas and communities that need
them the most. This would ensure the transformation of agriculture and fisheries sector
from a resource-based to a technology-based industry.
Moreover extension-related R&D activities will equally be supported to develop
innovative modalities and approaches to further strengthen the weak extension services of
the sector.
Community-based technology development and validation
Community-based research approaches equitably involve all stakeholders in the research
process and often generate innovative ways of measuring process, impact and outcomes. It
also establishes the critical link between research and action or practice. Hence, BAR will
continue to implement the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Community-Based
Participatory Action Research (CPAR) Programs through the DA-RIARCs and RFRDCs,
as well as the LGUs. PRA allows the full participation of farmers and fishers in the
planning of research efforts in their communities as they are in a better position to appraise
their needs and those of their communities, and their current situation. The farmers are
also, and as equally important, involved in the design of suitable technologies to address
their needs and problems. Once the interventions/solutions are identified, CPAR follows.
This research method brings together the researchers, community members, and other
relevant stakeholders so that they can work together in improving the conditions of the
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community. The farmers and fishers serve as cooperators in the verification of the
technical and economic feasibility of packages of technologies at the community setting.
The research essentially functions as on-farm assessment as well as demonstration of
technologies suited to the community. CPAR projects are implemented in coordination
with LGUs, farmer organizations, associations, and cooperatives, which, in the process,
capacitates and strengthens them in the conduct of follow-through on-farm research. The
programs will be supported by the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) through the
conduct of trainings for the Agricultural Technicians and farmers, and through the
production of information and education communication (IEC) materials.
Responsive technology commercialization
With the recognition that developed technology in itself is not the end and that there is still
a need to create additional value through proliferation & commercialization, the
Department is developing a keen interest and active involvement in technology promotion
and commercialization activities.
BAR will thus further strengthen and intensify the implementation of one of its banner
programs, the National Technology Commercialization Program, which supports the
commercialization of R&D breakthroughs and mature technologies. The project links the
innovators and discoverers of the mature technologies with prospective investors and
facilitates the formalization of arrangements should these be warranted. It also serves as a
vital tool for the development of enterprises and the improvement of agriculture and
fisheries-related industries anchored on appropriate activities emphasizing technology
transfer, adoption, and utilization. Technology transfer covers all activities, from the
adaptive/verification stages, technology incubation towards promotion, beta-testing, and
mass commercialization and adoption.
Effective intellectual property (IP) management strengthens the R&D system and
promotes further creativity, facilitates the transfer of technology, encourages market
access, attracts foreign and local investments, and promotes fund back flow to R&D.
Hence, IP applications will be facilitated from 2011-2017. Researchers and scientists will
be assisted in acquiring proprietary protection of their generated and developed
technologies.
R&D facilities/infrastructure development
To enhance the capabilities of the NaRDSAF member-institutions to efficiently and
effectively implement and manage R&D programs/activities in agriculture and fisheries,
the Department will continuously establish, upgrade and maintain R&D facilities of
partner institutions. It will support the acquisition of scientific equipment; the renovation
and construction of research facilities such as buildings, laboratories, and experimental
farms; the preparation of the master station development plans; and efforts to address other
critical needs. It is envisioned that by 2017, the majority of R&D facilities in all
NaRDSAF members across the country will have been upgraded and modernized to best
serve the priority needs of the scientific community and act as instrumental agents that
will drive the growth and progress of the rural agriculture and fishery communities
through the responsive delivery of services and technological interventions.
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Strengthening institutional partnerships through the national and regional RDE

networks
BAR, together with other DA operating units, will foster stronger linkages between and
among NaRDSAF institutions to maximize and sustain the gains derived from R&D
through strategic collaborations and synergy. These strong linkages are envisioned to
result in a deeper development impacts.
ATI, for its part, will support more joint ventures and convergence initiatives between
public institutions and between public institutions and private entities in the upgrading the
operation of the Agriculture and Fisheries Extension (AFE) system and will enhance interinstitutional linkages along the value chain, especially on research and extension.
The Department plans to establish research-extension facilities and maintain a total of
9,724 research extension networks for 2011-2017. These will facilitate and further
strengthen the alliances between research, development, and extension (RDE) funding and
implementing institutions and other agriculture and fisheries stakeholders.
Unified agenda setting, and program planning, implementation, and monitoring
BAR has established and implemented a competitive research grant (CRG) and has
spearheaded the formulation of an integrated national and regional R&D agenda which
serves as a basis for prioritizing R&D grants and projects of the NaRDSAF. Both
initiatives aim to promote market-oriented research designed to help improve the
competitiveness of Philippine crops, livestock and poultry, and fisheries. The DA funds
and supports high quality and collaborative research projects designed to provide solutions
to specific problems on competitiveness of the agriculture and fisheries sector. This
creates better conditions for agribusiness diversification and productivity-enhancing
investment by the private sector.
BAR will develop, with member institutions (RIARCs/RFRDCs and SUCs), an improved
system of data banking that gathers, processes, and disseminates information on researches
currently being undertaken or are in the pipeline. It will thus continue to strengthen and
improve its Proposal and Project Monitoring System and reach out to other government
and non-government entities providing support to agriculture and fisheries researches so
that formal arrangements can be secured on the exchange of information. A
comprehensive data base on current agriculture and fishery research work will enable
government to rationalize scarce resources while allowing the science community to avoid
duplication of work and to learn more of and from the works of others, thus making more
efficient their own research. This inventory can also be used by AFE agencies,
particularly the ATI, to make their information dissemination efforts more efficient and
effective.
Output Targets and Financial Requirements
The R&D activities as presented in Table 12 require a total budget of PhP 17.2 billion, of
which PhP 6.6 billion is allocated for 2011-2013.
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Table 10. Summary of outputs for R&D

Indicator
Intellectual Property Rights application facilitated
Production-related and post-production technologies commercialized
Research-extension facilities
Established
Upgraded
Maintained
Research-extension networks maintained
R&D facilities
Upgraded
Maintained
Research & development activities conducted
R&D Infrastructure
Established
Maintained
Programs/Projects/Activities
Unit
2011-2012
2013-2017
Number
26
78
Number
150
400
Number
Number
Number
Number
66
84
327
2,229
217
198
1,214
7,495
Number
Number
Number
126
58
2,249
401
173
6,465
Number
Number
85,107
308
173,207
940
5.2.2 Extension
To be able to provide the required extension services for its clients, the DA aims to:
1. Improve the quality of agriculture and fisheries extension (AFE) knowledge
products and services;
2. Enhance AFE stakeholders capabilities, especially in climate change preparation
and adaptation;
3. Strengthen partnerships in advancing excellence in extension delivery;
4. Broaden AFE innovations; and
5. Improve the quality of governance in the sub-sector.
The ATI shall lead and oversee the planning and implementation of AFE programs,
projects and activities. It shall work closely with the RFUs, other national government
agencies, SUCs, LGUs, and the private sector to provide responsive and efficient AFE.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Information Service (AFIS) will support the dissemination
of advocacy, communication and information materials on the DAs key programs by
collaborating with mass media establishment.
Improving Quality of AFE Knowledge Products and Services

The DA will make information and knowledge more available and accessible to the
sectors stakeholders. It will, through the ATI, work for dynamic and interactive
knowledge management where knowledge is created, shared, learned, enhanced,
organized, and utilized for the empowerment of people and communities. A major
strategy towards this end will be to optimize the use of information communication
technology (ICT) in bridging clients and the agriculture and fisheries production and
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processing systems. In this regard, the ATI will devote resources on (1) knowledge
products development and dissemination; (2) the establishment and management of the eextension program (e-learning, e-farming and e-trading), including the Farmers Call and
Text Support and Interactive Voice Response on Rice Nutrient Manager; and (3) the
establishment of knowledge centers, community learning centers, and networks, including
the National Knowledge Center and LGU/SUC Knowledge Centers such as the Techno
Gabay and Farmers Information and Technology Services centers.
Enhancing AFE Stakeholders Capabilities
To meet the need of the agriculture and fisheries sector for a strong human resource pool
equipped with the appropriate knowledge, attitude and skills, the DA will provide
opportunities for its various clients to obtain formal and non-formal education. It, through
the ATI, will:
1. Inculcate desirable work values and ethics on professional extension service
providers (ESPs);
2. Provide opportunities for the client system along the value chain and ESPs to
obtain formal and non-formal education;
3. Advocate for reforms in the agriculture and fishery degree programs so that ample
emphasis is given to extension;
4. Tap progressive farmers as extension workers using their farms as learning sites; and
5. Enhance the capacities of farmers/rural-based organizations to manage their farms/
resources.
The DA will link or network with all appropriate institutions government, academe, civil
society, and business -- to further strengthen AFE. Moreover, it will tap progressive
farmers as change advocates and use their farms as learning sites for technology
demonstration, farmers field schools, and schools for practical agriculture.
Strengthening Partnerships in Advancing Excellence in the Extension Delivery System
The DA will seek to engage in more joint ventures and convergence initiatives with other
government agencies and public institutions, the business community and other
components of the private sector, and other special interest groups in upgrading the
operation and improving the efficacy of the AFE system, and to enhance inter-institutional
linkages between research and extension along the value chain. Such partnerships harness
and mobilize the combined resources of stakeholders in deepening the impacts of
development efforts and in sustaining such changes. Thus, ATI will initiate action to
increase public-public and public-private joint ventures and convergence initiatives in
upgrading the operation of the AFE system and enhance inter-institutional linkages along
the value chain, especially on research and extension.
Broadening AFE Knowledge Innovations
The DA will seek to adopt innovation or the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of
knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes or services -- in
extension. Among the many examples of innovative developments in extension the DA
will use are the clustering approach, convergence, and ladderized training programs. In
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addition, the DA will adopt situation-specific technologies and other novel approaches in
the implementation of AFE programs/projects/activities through:
1. Implementation of an competitively-awarded grants for appropriate programs,
projects, and activities in extension for extension institutions, SUCs, NGOs, and
the private sector;
2. Establishment and management of innovation centers;
3. Conduct of national and international fora on AFE;
4. Conduct of project piloting & modeling; and
5. Giving of recognition and awards for outstanding innovations.
Enhancing Quality of Governance over AFE to Achieve Higher Efficiencies& More
Defined Accountability
To ensure that extension policies, strategic plans, and monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms are in place for the effective delivery of extension services to all clients, the
DA will:
1. Capacitate the LGUs and ESPs in developing their own AFE strategic plans within
the framework of the national AFE strategic plan;
2. Implement a synchronized results-based monitoring and evaluation system for
AFE;
3. Establish a national and regional database management systems for AFE;
4. Provide suitable coordination and quality control over AFE services to ensure
ESPs meet national standards of performance;
5. Provide grants or counterpart funding for extension projects along identified
priority areas; and
6. Build up resource complementation and mobilization.
Outputs
The following are the key outputs for AFE during the Plan period:
1. On-demand farm or business advisory services on rural-based organizations
development, marketing, knowledge sharing, and on-farm visits;
2. Training activities/events, to be conducted by the DA operating units, specifically
the RFUs and attached agencies with extension functions. These training courses
will cover a wide range of topics along the value chain such as production and
post-production technologies, irrigation management, products standards, good
agricultural practices, good aquaculture practices (GAP), good manufacturing
practices and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), and other
topics/subject matters that appropriately respond to the needs of the target clientele
or a specific target area;
3. e-Learning courses. e-Learning is one form of distance education that uses and
maximizes ICT to share knowledge in agriculture and fisheries. It includes online
certificate courses, digital learning resources such as technology kits, video clips,
and mini-tutorials;
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4. Training-related events. These events are alternative training methods used to

reach large but specifically identified groups of people. These are relatively
inexpensive to implement and, if properly planned, carefully implemented, and
adequately supported, will be effective approaches in teaching farmers new
technologies. They include Farmers Field Schools, Climate Field Schools,
Livestock Field Schools, Schools on Practical Agriculture, Farmers Congresses,
Schools-On-the-Air, and Field Days.
5. Modules developed by the various operating units and regional field offices
nationwide;
6. Technology demonstrations established, maintained, and sustained as showcases of
new farming technologies for various commodities for farmer clienteles and other
stakeholders;
7. Knowledge products shared with the DAs clientele through conventional means
like print, radio and TV; indigenous folk media; or by electronic means;
8. Audio and video production materials broadcast nationwide. ATI will also publish
photo stories, press releases and success stories that can either be written or
packaged in video format;
9. Scholarships in degree or non-degree courses in local or international institutions
for deserving individuals, from within and outside of the DA;
10. Accreditation of ESPs to undertake, in behalf of the DA, training and other
complementary extension activities for designated or identified clienteles/customers;
and
11. An efficiently and effectively functioning AFIS which will disseminate
communication support materials, incorporate information strategies on marketing
and agribusiness for various commodity programs, and collaborate with the trimedia network in disseminating information on agriculture and fisheries
production, investments, and markets.
Inputs
The above outputs will require some PhP 22.3 billion from 2011 to 2017, of which PhP
7.9 billion is programmed for 2011-2013.
5.2.3 Agribusiness and Market Development Services

The DA provides agribusiness and market development (AMD) services to: (a) address the
challenges and opportunities associated with globalization and increase in free trade areas
(FTAs) and (b) overcome institutional constraints in the domestic marketing system for
agriculture and fisheries. The DAs AMAS shall take the lead in the planning and
provision of AMD services, supported by strong partnerships between and among DA
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bureaus/attached agencies/attached corporations, other government agencies, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), and the private sector.
Market Intelligence
The DA will devote resources on the gathering of market intelligence which shall be the
basis for the formulation and implementation of effective market assistance initiatives and
the running of market information systems. AMAS will, in close coordination with the
private sector and SUCs, conduct market research, benchmarking, and competitiveness
analyses on priority commodities and markets. These are for purposes of assessing
evolving market trends and scanning of emerging demand for agricultural products both in
the domestic and export markets. In coordination with the Agricultural Attachs, market
reconnaissance, assessment and intelligence work will be undertaken.
The DAs capability to conduct market research shall be strengthened through training and
mentoring programs implemented by research institutions. Consultants will also be tapped
to provide training and guidance in the actual conduct of the research.
Value Chain Framework
The DA will strengthen the countrys agricultural export performance by focusing
resources on: (1) supporting high-value crops (e.g. fruits and vegetables, ornamentals,
rubber, oil palm, coffee, coconut), and fishery products (e.g. grouper, seabass, seaweeds),
where comparative advantage is high; and (2) strategic or niche markets, such as those for
organic and halal products. It will promote more value-adding in these products and help
develop the capacities of stakeholders for value-chain management.
To further support value chains, the Department, through the AMAS, will: (1) conduct
consultations with industry stakeholders to identify priority areas of interventions;(2) track
agribusiness investments in the value chain and prepare project briefs/proposals for
potential investors; and (3) develop comprehensive databases on commodity supply/value
chains and players in every region/province.
Support for MSMEs and small farmers/fishers groups
The DA will strengthen market access initiatives for, and technical assistance to, micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small farmer and fisher cooperatives and
groups. AMAS will: (1) facilitate arrangements for food processors, manufacturers, and
exporters to source their raw material requirements from these groups; (2) help Philippine
exporters and processors link up with supermarkets, food chain establishments and other
institutional outlets, both local and international; (3) promote agricultural and fisheriesbased products in local and international markets through participation in national and
international trade fairs and exhibits, selling missions, market matching initiatives, and
other promotional activities; and (4) promote adherence to product standards and quality
management in coordination with Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Products Standards
(BAFPS), including those for organic and halal products.
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The DA will promote organic farming by providing marketing support and incentives to
producers. It will also support the accreditation and certification of producers of organic
products and establish Organic Trading Posts.
AFMIS
The DA will ensure the sustainable and effective operation of the Agriculture and
Fisheries Market Information System (AFMIS) at the national and local levels. The
AMAS and the Information Technology Center for Agriculture and Fisheries (ITCAF)
will work together to:
1. conduct training for AFMIS partners, like LGU personnel and producer groups, on
how to access market information from the AFMIS website and use market data in
decision-making;
2. strengthen coordination, commitment, and information flow among market
development agencies at the national and regional level, between the agencies and
the private sector, and between the agencies and the LGUs;
3. enhance the connectivity of the national and local AFMIS to make timely
information accessible at all times;
4. install kiosks in strategic areas in the regions, making AFMIS more accessible to
farmers and fishers especially in far-flung areas; and
5. install digital media signage (DMS) in major trading centers in the country to
disseminate real-time information on prices, supply requirements and market
advisories to strategic locations nationwide.
Investment promotion
The DA will promote agriculture-related livelihood opportunities and seek to attract
investments in agribusiness and priority value chains. These will be achieved through the
conduct of trainings, seminars, dialogues, congresses, and other such engagement fora
under three projects that target specific sectors as follows:
1. Agribusiness Livelihood Enterprise Development Assistance (ALEDA). In close
coordination with the DAs operating unitsas well as with other government bodies
such as the DOST, DTI, DAR, DENR, OWWA, LGUs and SCUs, the AMAS will
regularly conduct livelihood training and seminars for overseas Filipino workers,
out-of-school youth, farmers and farming household members, and other
stakeholders. This isto disseminate ready-for-commercialization technologies in:
a. small-scale agricultural production (i.e., urban gardening, organic
vegetables production, aquaculture, hog raising, and poultry raising);
b. small-scale processing of fruits, vegetables, fisheries, and livestock and
poultry products;
c. marketing techniques or tools for product development, pricing, product
positioning and product promotion;
d. fund sourcing/credit accessing;
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e. sourcing inputs, including required raw materials and amenities in business

operations;
f. market linkages;
g. development of simple business plans;
h. food safety and product quality standards; and
i. value formation and handling challenges in doing business.
These activities shall also include information on available support services from
both the government and private entities. The project shall also form business
advisory groups, consisting of representatives from concerned agencies with
various expertise, to assist livelihood enterprises become more viable. AMAS
shall assist in accessing markets and sourcing inputs and logistics.
2. MSME Development Assistance (MSMEDA). Through this project, AMAS will
coordinate with relevant partner agencies such as DTI, Philippine Small and
Medium Business Development Foundation (PhilSMED), and Philippine Exporters
Confederation (PhilExport), institutions, business groups, and the academe in
conducting:
a. quarterly consultative dialogues for agribusiness micro-enterprises, by industry
group and type, to monitor the industry status and to identify areas of concerns
for immediate action;
b. nationwide agribusiness enterprise summits to look at the agribusiness industry
situation at the macro level and evaluate existing policies on doing agribusiness
in the Philippines; and
c. agribusiness enterprise foraon issues and concerns with agribusiness
entrepreneurs, and on improving further the environment for agribusiness
operations and growth.
3. Agribusiness Investment Promotion Assistance (AIPA). In coordination with
LGUs and private groups, AMAS will regularly conduct investment promotion
activities to drum up investments and address the gaps in agribusiness value
chains. It will prepare integrated regional investment plans with specific and
comprehensive project investment opportunities identified. The investment
opportunities shall be properly packaged and consolidated into one promotional
material representing the Philippine Agribusiness Opportunities (PAO).
This project will also organize and/or assist outbound and inbound trade and
investment missions, pro-actively link with agribusiness investors and
entrepreneurs, and establish collaboration with the following institutions for
investment promotion:
a. Financing institutions, such as the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee
Corporation, Land Bank of the Philippines, Development Bank of the
Philippines, Peoples Credit and Finance Corporation TLRC-Livelihood Funds
Assistance Group;
b. DTI-Board of Investments, DAR, DOLE, DILG, and Department of Tourism;
and
c. Private sector groups and SME associations, such as the Philippine Food
Processors and Exporters Organization, Inc, PhilSMED, Philippine Chamber of
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Agriculture and Food, Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Hog

Farmers, and Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers and Distributors
Association Foundation.
AIPA will support the participation of the private sector in agribusiness
enterprises-related
activities
(domestic and
international)
such as
forums/congresses and Agritech fairs, as well as organize study tours (local and
foreign) to expose the domestic private sector to the international business arena
and learn and understand the principles of global competition. This project will
also network with trade and investment promotion initiatives of EU-Asia Invest
Program, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, ASEAN, Brunei DarussalamIndonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area, Southeast Asian
Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, and Asian
Productivity Organization.
The project will also support and facilitate long-term strategic alliances and
partnerships between agribusiness firms and farmer cooperatives and MSMEs in
the form of joint ventures, contract growing schemes, corporative arrangements,
and big brother-small brother linkages.
Trading Centers
The DA will establish, with private sector participation, needed market infrastructure such
as trading centers and food terminals. These facilities may have the following features:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Chain of marketing facilities from farms to consumers;

Packaging or packing centers at the farm level;
Distribution centers in certain towns;
Major food depot and distribution centers in cities where wholesale market
complexes for agricultural produce do not exist;
Cold-chain (pre-cooling, refrigerated transport and cold storage) systems from
farms to distribution centers;
Processing facilities;
Services for testing produce and product quality, especially for the presence of
chemical, pesticide and anti-biotic residues; and
ICT equipment and facilities to improve the dissemination of market and market
information.
The trading centers or food terminal hubs shall, preferably but not necessarily, be situated
in major agriculture and fishery producing areas and designated regional or provincial
agro-industrial centers to facilitate value-adding and processing. In some cases, existing
trading posts maybe expanded or improved to function as food terminals.
Partnerships
AMAS will strengthen public and private sector partnership in the following areas: market
infrastructure investments, value-adding activities (products and services), market
expansion, and harmonizing Philippine with international standards. It will also rely on
strong coordination and partnerships with different entities for specific AMD activities as
follows:
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1. Other DA units/bureaus/attached agencies, other government agencies, as well as

Agricultural and Commercial Attaches and other officials of pertinent Philippine
embassies in the organization of, or participation in, international trade and
exhibits and in the facilitation of outbound and inbound missions;
2. DOST in the improvement of value-adding in agricultural and fisheries products,
and DTI in enhancing market promotion of the same products in the domestic and
export markets;
3. DA bureaus and attached agencies and private sector groups in the identification of
the products and the markets to be developed; in the inclusion of information on
market and product trends among considerations in the formulation of strategic
plans of action, and the provision of technical support in the preparation of market
research/studies;
4. BAR and ATI in promoting commercially viable technologies for adoption by
farmers and fishers and agribusiness entrepreneurs and investors;
5. Industry players, the academe. research institutions, and other government
agencies in the conduct of market research/studies; and
6. PhilMech for the reduction of postharvest losses and the enhancement of valueadding.
Marketing Efforts of Specialized DA Agencies
Through its Integrated Farming and Other Income Generating Activities Project
(IFOIGAP)-Tobacco Contract Growing System, the National Tobacco Administration
(NTA), promotes a market-oriented approach to production by involving the tobacco
buyer-firms which provide production assistance, LGUs which provide technical advice
and other support, and government financial institutions which provide credit/production
assistance to tobacco farmers.
The NTA also initiates projects/activities to determine specific demand requirements in
the market, information on which would be able to guide tobacco farmers plan out their
production and marketing strategies and to increase and maximize the Philippines share
in the local and international markets. These activities include market assessments of the
local tobacco industry and profiling of actual and potential international markets. The
agency also participates in local and foreign exhibits. These activities will be intensified
during the plan period.
The Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA), meanwhile, will undertake aggressive
trade promotion efforts to develop and expand the market base of the Philippine fiber
industry. It will participate in, and organize, local and international trade fairs and exhibits,
and maintain display areas to showcase and create awareness on the uses of Philippine
fibers. The display areas will be maintained in FIDA Central and regional offices as well
as other trade promotion offices that could work hand-in-hand with FIDA in the promotion
of fiber and fiber-based products. The agency will also send foreign trade missions to
extant and potential markets to conduct market intelligence, promote enhanced trade with
foreign markets, and explore investment possibilities.
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The Market Development Program of the National Dairy Authority (NDA) aims to adopt a
market-led strategy and firmly establish the marketability of locally-produced milk. The
assurance of expanding markets for dairy products will serve as an incentive for farmers to
seriously consider investing resources and time into the dairy business. To provide this
assurance, a nationwide milk education and marketing campaign will be launched to
substantially increase the demand for fresh milk. The activities in this campaign will be
focused on the institutional and retail markets in major dairy producing areas. These
activities include the Barangay & School Milk Marketing program; advocacy for local
ordinances encouraging the consumption of milk and milk products, especially locallyproduced ones; and the conduct of an information and advocacy campaign through the
mass media to create awareness of the availability of locally- produced milk and milk
products, increase the knowledge of and creasing positive attitude in, the general public
regarding the said products, and finally encouraging the consumption of these products.
Some of the features of the information and advocacy campaign will be the exhortation to
drink a glass of milk a day and partnering with NGOs, civil society organizations, and
peoples organizations that would be willing to support a one glass of milk for one child
campaign.
If a viable market is established, Milk Marketing Agreements (MMA), mainly in the form
of public-private partnerships (PPPs), will be crafted and promoted between and among
the local and national distribution networks of milk and milk products.
The National Food Authority will continue to support palay farmers by acting as buyer of
last resort for palay output.
Output Targets
Over the medium-term, the expected outputs in AMD services will give focus to the
funding, conduct, and/or assistance to market-related events both at the local and
international levels in support also of the aforestated directions and thrusts. These are
summarized in Table 13 which also shows the target number of beneficiaries for all AMD
services.
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Table 11. Summary of Outputs for Agribusiness and Market Development Services
Outputs
Local market-related events funded,
assisted, and/or conducted
International Market-related events
assisted/participated
Number of farmers/enterprises served
Unit
Quantity/Amount
2011-2012
2013-2017
Total
Number
2,350
6,670
8,939
Number
50
435
485
Number
8,003
38,142
46,145
Inputs
Some PhP 4.6 billion will be required to generate these outputs. Of this amount, PhP 2.24
billion will be spent for 2011-2013. The NFA will also need some PhP 178.6 billion from
2011 to 2016 to buy palay from farmers. Finally, some PhP 1.25 billion will be needed to
develop systems that will provide various information to farmers, fishers and other
agriculture and fishery enterprises.
The summary of financial requirements by year for research and development, and
extension is shown in Table 14.
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Table 12. Inputs for Research and Development, and Extension

BUDGET (in P000)
2011
Research and
Development
TOTAL
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
CO OUs
Extension
TOTAL
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
Agribusiness
and Market
Assistance
TOTAL (excluding
NFA)
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
CO OUs
NFA
Information Support
TOTAL
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
CO OUs
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
1,993,546
2,219,247
2,361,388
2,460,135
2,510,237
2,741,238
2,895,360
430,928
830,903
688,008
858,110
795,584
839,021
907,999
45,343
1,047,211
974,990
1,107,604
1,244,716
1,390,074
1,576,091
1,664,876
469,514
412,854
565,776
356,959
324,229
325,776
322,094
550
500
350
350
350
550
1,737,534
2,505,482
2,709,517
3,199,889
3,852,483
3,968,037
4,281,849
1,046,516
1,583,016
1,702,967
2,035,492
2,204,194
2,245,041
2,223,382
79,400
1,000
4,000
15,500
15,500
15,500
15,500
441,693
705,570
719,099
719,762
1,163,263
1,275,371
1,604,839
169,925
215,897
283,451
429,134
469,526
432,125
438,128
925,886
626,888
684,034
581,448
535,793
573,817
632,112
318,132
300,099
255,977
458,718
407,983
442,941
494,527
272,273
228,507
321,931
45,142
48,866
52,382
55,422
301,977
65,962
76,473
40,826
41,150
41,468
41,804
2,600
1,731
1,731
1,762
1,794
1,826
1,859
30,904
30,588
27,922
35,000
36,000
35,200
38,500
10,536
14,841
31,857
39,337
40,459
41,581
86,040
176,897
113,833
202,780
213,293
222,677
233,014
38,082
152,991
86,472
160,137
170,229
174,809
183,175
28,850
5,500
7,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
17,915
17,872
19,826
20,608
21,928
23,331
24,801
14
35
35
36
36
37
38
1,179
500
500
2,000
1,100
4,500
5,000
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5.3 Regulatory Services

The liberalization of trade, increasingly more efficient transportation systems, and the
development of postharvest and processing technologies that lengthen the shelf life of
products have resulted in the expanded movement of products across territories. The risks
of various hazards to consumers, plants, animals, and fish have, consequently, increased.
Thus, the use of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS), food safety, and resource conservation
regulations assume utmost importance for sustaining agriculture and fishery productivity
and competitiveness.
5.3.1 Objectives
The DA will continue to provide appropriate regulatory services to
1. Protect consumers from unsafe, unwholesome, mislabeled or adulterated food, feed
and agricultural inputs;
2. Prevent the entry, establishment, and spread of plant, animal and fish pests and
diseases;
3. Prevent the detention or rejection of Philippine agriculture and fishery products in
the export market;
4. Protect the public and the environment from the risks from the use of chemical and
biological production and post-harvest inputs;
5. Safeguard animal welfare; and
6. Promote resource conservation.
5.3.2 Principles, Approaches and Tools

The DA will adhere to the following principles for its regulatory functions:
1. Science- and risk-based regulation. The regulations shall be based solely on an
evaluation of risks using current available scientific evidence and relevant
economic factors.
2. Targeting. Regulations shall focus on managing the specific sources of risks.
Different circumstances pose different risks; demonstrable differences should be
accounted for in formulating and implementing regulations.
3. Proportionality, fitness and efficiency. Regulations shall be proportionate to the
risks they are addressing. These shall be kept to what is effective and necessary to
manage risks and achieve an acceptable level of protection. Regulations shall
consider the costs of regulation to consumers and businesses; and adopt the leastcostly approach to managing risks.
4. Transparency. Regulations and the effects to society and the environment of noncompliance to them should be disclosed in a clear, accurate, and complete manner
and to a reasonable and sufficient degree. Moreover, stakeholders should be
involved and allowed to make effective contributions in the formulation of
regulations. Regulations shall also be accessible to review.
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5. Accountability. Regulations and decisions on regulatory action shall be explainable,

justifiable, and subject to public scrutiny. Regulators shall be held responsible for
decisions made and answerable to legal authorities and other stakeholders.
6. Equivalence. Regulations shall acknowledge and make provisions for alternative
approaches to managing risks where it can be shown that the alternatives lead to
the same level of protection for consumers.
7. Consistency. The various regulations shall be in harmony in purpose and intent,
avoiding unnecessary or unjustifiable distinctions in the levels considered to be
appropriate in different situations.
8. Non-discrimination. The regulations shall be implemented fairly, avoiding
unnecessary and unjustifiable distinctions in identical or similar circumstances.
The following approaches shall be used in the DAs regulatory functions:
1. Vesting primary responsibility on industry. Businesses, from primary production
to distribution, shall bear primary responsibility for managing risks and ensuring
product safety and quality.
2. Comprehensively addressing risks, from the farm to the table. Regulations shall
recognize that risks abound at the production, marketing, distribution, and
consumption levels. These shall therefore use a farm-to-table approach wherein the
producer, processor, transporter, vendor, and consumer are persuaded to adopt
proper safety and quality measures way below critical points. The measures shall
include features that will allow traceability of products to support the targeting of
regulations and regulatory actions to specific sources of risks.
3. Using prevention rather than apprehension. A preventive approach that promotes
appropriate risk-control measures at all relevant stages of the farm-to-table
continuum shall be followed. The adoption of certification schemes such as the
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), good manufacturing practices
(GMP), and good agricultural practices (GAP) shall be aggressively promoted.
4. Maximizing private sector participation. The many opportunities for the private
sector to participate in regulatory enforcement shall be explored fully, including
but not limited to, accrediting non-government entities for the provision of
laboratory and certification services.
5. Engendering partnership with LGUs and communities.The DA shall devolve or
assign, as appropriate, aspects of technical regulations to LGUs and the communities,
including, among others, information dissemination, monitoring, and surveillance.
6. Promoting harmonization with international standards. The standards and
recommendations of international institutions, such as the Codex Alimentarius
Commission (Codex), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), International Plant
Protection Convention (IPPC), ASEAN and other relevant international standard-setting
bodies, shall be used, whenever appropriate, in formulating regulations.
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The DAs regulatory services shall employ the following tools:

1. Standards Setting. Separate standards shall be set for safety, which shall be
mandatory, and for quality, which shall be grade-specific;
2. Risk Analysis. Regulations shall be based on a systematic and objective
assessment of risks; shall consider all options for risk management; and shall
incorporate risk communication among the risk assessors, risk managers,
regulation enforcers, consumers and other interested parties;
3. Monitoring and Surveillance. The results of monitoring and surveillance, among
other methods, shall be used to guide the identification and assessment of risks;
4. Registration and accreditation. Registration and accreditation shall be required to
pre-qualify products for use in regulated activities or business establishments for
engaging in said activities;
5. Inspection and certification. Inspection and certification shall be employed at
appropriate stages of the farm-to-table continuum to ensure that establishments and
products satisfy relevant technical regulations. These services shall be especially made
available to exporters in accordance with the requirements of the importing countries;
6. Quarantine. Detention and confinement shall be used to allow for further
inspection, testing, or treatment. Controls in transport and movement shall be used
to prevent the entry, establishment, and spread of pests and diseases;
7. Laboratory Testing. This shall provide the scientific evidence for deciding and
justifying regulatory action. It will also provide the basis for the issuance of
required certifications and clearances for the export of pertinent agricultural and
fishery Philippine products; and
8. Detention, Treatment, Recall, Destruction, and Re-export. These actions shall be
used, as appropriate, on products showing non-compliance with documentary and
technical requirements. Revocation of registration or accreditation shall be used for
establishments in violation of technical regulations.
5.3.3 Plan of Action

These regulatory services shall be strengthened to achieve the following by 2017:
1. Development and application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in the
monitoring and surveillance of animal, fish and plant pests and diseases and in the
establishment and operation of an early warning system;
2. Increase in the number of animal and plant pests/diseases eradicated nationwide
and expansion of areas declared pest/disease-free;
3. Expansion in the use of on-line transactions of regulatory issuances and test results;
4. Enhancement of the competencies of all DA regulatory laboratories; and
5. Effective response to SPS and agricultural Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
notifications of trading partners under the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Pest and disease eradication

Various pest and disease prevention and eradication programs will be continued by the
concerned regulatory units to maintain the countys pest/disease-free status with respect to
Avian Influenza and Foot and Mouth Disease for animals and Mango Pulp/Seed Weevil
(except for Palawan) and to increase the number of pest/disease-free areas for:
1. rabies, caprine arthritis encephalitis, brucellosis, tuberculosis, porcine epidemic
diarrhea, porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome, and blackleg on animals;
2. rice black bug, pink mealy bug, insect scale, brontispa, cadang-cadang, witches
broom, mango pulp/seed weevil, socorro wilt, corn plant hoppers, abaca/banana
bunchy top, abaca/banana mosaic virus, mango hoppers, potato bacterial blight,
fruit fly, and rice grain bug on plants; and
3. koi herpes virus, taura syndrome, infectious myonecrosis, spring virameae on fish,
and white spot virus in shrimps.
These targets will be pursued through regular surveillance and monitoring of pests/disease
status; persistent eradication; vigilant enforcement of quarantine regulations; and enhanced
support for plant, veterinary, and fisheries quarantine stations and checkpoints. GIS
applications will be used to guide efforts to stem the incidence of the most significant
pests and diseases and maps will be used to delineate areas according to pest/disease
prevalence. More specifically, the current GIS application on mapping of vaccinated
animals will be expanded to include pests/diseases of quarantine importance to plant, fish
and livestock. The DA will also give attention to the implementation of measures to
address animal welfare concerns.
Rationalization and Strengthening of Laboratories
The DA will capacitate its various laboratories to better support its regulatory objectives.
More specifically, it will strengthen the capacities of the following:
1. Regional feed laboratories, mushroom laboratories, pesticide analytical
laboratories, and microbiological and chemical laboratories to detect toxins and
hazardous and banned substances to assure food and feed safety. Related to this,
the DA will establish and harmonize maximum residue limits for plants, meat, and
fishery products. It will also establish the Food Development Center as its
contaminant laboratory;
2. Regional animal disease diagnostic laboratories, regional crop protection center
laboratories, central post-entry quarantine station laboratory, fish health
laboratories, and plant quarantine laboratories to detect and identify animal, fish
and plant pests/diseases;
3. Vaccine laboratories to produce standardized and high quality vaccines to protect
animals against diseases; and
4. Regional soils laboratories, seed laboratories, and fertilizer laboratories to provide
quality certification services.
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The DA will also rationalize its network of regulatory and research analytical/testing
laboratories and enhance their competencies. It has more than 100 regulatory laboratories
nationwide, targeting different subsectors but sometimes offering the same testing services
with varying levels of competence. To correct this, it will introduce the use of laboratory
information management systems, seek to harmonize test methods among the regulatory
laboratories, and set up and make operational a Certified Reference Material laboratory in
the BAFPS to be the source of reference materials/cultures that will be used by regulatory
laboratories.
Inspection, Certification, and Monitoring
The DA will also continue implementing its monitoring and warning system for marine
biotoxin-paralytic shellfish poison to protect domestic consumers. It will strengthen
HACCP, GAP, good animal husbandry practices and organic agriculture certification and
other services such as the issuance of licenses, clearances, permits, accreditations, and
regulations that will support the use of traceability systems to enhance the access of
Philippine agricultural and fisheries products to export markets.
Transactions Processing
The DA will expand the electronic processing of transactions to lessen processing time
and allow real-time monitoring of applications, thus improving client satisfaction while
facilitating the preparation and enhancing the reliability and accuracy of reports. The
expansion will cover transactions to obtain import, export, and other clearances; transport
permits; licenses; certifications; registrations; and accreditations from the relevant
regulatory units and bodies.
Improved Response to SPS and TBT Measures
The DA will strengthen its capability to respond to SPS and TBT regulations proposed for
implementation by the countrys trading partners and notified under the WTO. These
measures, once implemented, can have immediate effect on Philippine access to export
markets. Failure to comply with the measures can result in Philippine products being
rejected or detained abroad. Understanding and taking steps to effectively and efficiently
comply with new SPS and TBT measures will help exporters and producers cope with the
challenges of globalization.
Governance
Chaired by the BAFPS, the DAs regulatory cluster, comprising of regulatory units in the
Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), BFAR, National Meat
Inspection Service (NMIS), Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority, Philippine Coconut
Authority (PCA), FIDA, NFA, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), NTA, and the
RFUs will hold periodic meetings and dialogue at the regional and national levels to
proactively address emerging problems. The BAFPS will also lead in developing strategic
and investment plans for, and monitoring the physical accomplishments and financial
performance of, the DAs regulatory services.
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Finally, the DA will purse the enactment of a food safety law that will give it the mandate
and organization to effectively pursue measures for enhancing food and feed safety.
Inputs
A total of PhP 5.8 billion is needed by the DA to fulfill its regulatory function during the
plan period. This amount excludes the requirements for regulatory infrastructure, such as
laboratories and quarantine stations, for which the budget requirements are included under
the budget for other infrastructure. About PhP1.0 billion is programmed for 2011-2013
(Table 15).
Table 13. Inputs for Regulatory
Budget (P000)
Regulatory
Total
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
2011
2012
2013
327,910
29,648
123,680
150,982
23,601
440,067
36,649
173,949
202,556
26,913
595,998
48,075
243,250
266,755
37,918
2014
1,314,876
45,259
829,996
328,938
110,683
2015
1,343,618
52,433
825,064
377,846
88,275
2016
1,298,058
58,966
735,971
427,569
75,551
2017
1,441,879
64,262
796,752
505,474
75,390
5.4 Policy and Planning

Innovations in agriculture and fishery development policy and planning remain to be at the
center of the DAs efforts to create an environment that is conducive for a profitable,
globally-competitive, and sustainable sector. The simultaneous pursuit of socio-economic
improvements in the lives of small farmers and fishers, and of self-sufficiency in food
staples requires no less than the adoption of optimally appropriate strategies and
techniques, supported by the latest advances in information technology.
At the onset of the Benigno Aquino III Administration and prior to the crafting of the
AFMP, the DA launched a number of policy and planning initiatives that are now
mainstreamed into this Plan. These include the institutionalization of the gendered value
chain approach, DA-LGU engagement, public-private partnership, IT-supported
knowledge management, climate change adaptation and risk reduction, and inter-agency
convergence. This Plan also continues to assign a primus inter pares role to the DA RFU
in integrated spatial planning among the DAs 27 bureaus, agencies and corporations, as
well as in convergence initiatives with other rural development agencies, including DAR
and DENR.
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5.4.1 Legislative agenda

An enabling policy and legislative agenda underpins the AFMP. Consistent with Chapter
4 of the PDP, the DA will advocate for the enactment of the following laws:
1. National Land Use Law. This law is expected to provide legal and other
mechanisms, not only for land reform areas, but also zoned areas for water and
water uses, especially for agriculture. This is especially important in anticipation of
the end of the agrarian reform program and the subsequent opening of the land
market. Further, it is envisioned that the policy shall serve as guide to the optimum
allocation of land among competing uses within the framework of sustainable
development. It shall also provide a mechanism for resolving land use policy
conflicts, taking into consideration the principles of social equity and economic
efficiency.
2. NFA Reorganization Act. This proposed legislation will restructure the agency by
separating its regulatory and proprietary functions and thus further rationalize
grains-sector trading. It will provide for the NFA to grant import permits for rice to
all applicants as a ministerial function, subject to the payment of applicable taxes,
duties, and service fees. The quantitative restriction on rice will be reviewed in
light of the WTO exemption that expires in 2012. The proposed law would enable
the NFA to engage in activities consistent with its renewed mandate.
3. Rationalized Bureaucracy for the Sector. The agriculture bureaucracy should be
rationalized through the efficient and effective convergence and complementation
of the agriculture, agrarian reform and natural resources service agencies and
related offices, in the process sorting out institutional overlaps. The convergence
effort will operationalize sustainable development by integrating the social,
economic, and environmental aspects of rural development. The proposed
legislation will rationalize and strengthen the provision of extension services
towards improving national, local and private sector complementation.
4. Accelerated Irrigation Act. Under this law, the NIA shall undertake a six-year
accelerated irrigation program to construct irrigation projects in the remaining
unproductive but potentially irrigable lands nationwide to an extent to be
determined through a full inventory of potential areas for irrigation, and of
potential irrigation projects in accordance with technical, economic, and
environmental criteria.
5. Food Safety and Food Labeling Law. This measure will put in place a
coordinated food safety and certification system, clearly defining the functions and
mandates of the agencies concerned; establishing a system for public laboratories
to ensure the credibility of test results; and strengthening the participation of food
supply industries in the global food trade, among others. The consumers right to
information will also be protected through proper labeling of raw materials and
ingredients of processed food products, including those sourced from geneticallymodified organisms.
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5.4.2 Planning and Monitoring

The necessary support infrastructure and services will be delivered to the sector through
the following planning strategies;
1. Stakeholder consultations. With the Governments emphasis on transparency and
accountability, as well as on people empowerment, there is greater impetus for a
more open planning process. Thus, the local development councils (LDCs) and
Agriculture and Fishery Councils (AFCs), which are established planning
mechanisms, were actively involved in the formulation of this plan. This will help
ensure ownership of the Plan by the local agri-fishery stakeholders who are vested
with the right and responsibility of seeing through its implementation and
completion. Involving the stakeholders during the Plans formulation also
strengthened the capability of the agri-fishery stakeholders to monitory its
implementation since they were informed about the purpose, resources needed, and
intended outcome of the plans programs, projects, and activities
The same kind of involvement and participation from all stakeholders in the sector
will be engendered throughout the implementation of this Plan. All stakeholders
involved in the development of the agriculture and fishery sector will be consulted,
not only during planning and budgeting, but also during the formulation of new
policies, programs, projects and activities that will directly affect them, as well as
in assessing the efficacy and impacts of these interventions. The conduct of regular
consultations will ensure that policies of the Department include stakeholder
inputs. This way, the stakeholders will feel committed to the crafting,
implementation and monitoring of the interventions the DA will have for them,
instead of feeling that they have been consulted only for the sake of compliance
with the AFMA. Having ownership of these interventions, they will ensure that
these measures are given all the inputs needed for success, including, and
especially, full and meaningful stakeholder participation. Consultations will also
be conducted in the formulation of a country-driven, foreign-assisted development
strategy and the consequent translation of this strategy into interventions. This
strategy will call for the identification of interventions based on local needs within
a national cohesive framework to ensure that all of the projects build up toward a
national goal.
To sustain this endeavor, the DA and all its operating units, will strengthen
resource generation activities. It will advocate for counterpart funds from all
possible resource streams in the municipal, provincial and regional levels for the
regular updating of the AFMP and its component programs, projects and activities.
2. Capability enhancement.To be able to meaningfully participate in the crafting and
execution of policies, programs, and projects, stakeholders must have the
capability to do so. Thus, among the DAs special concerns is building up the
capability of individual and groups of farmers and fishers, as well as LGUs to
participate in the formulation and implementation of local AFMPs. There is also a
need to maximize use of existing planning mechanisms (e.g., LDCs and AFCs) to
ensure that AFMPs are truly inclusive. Using the LDCs and AFCs as planning fora
could go a long way towards strengthening peoples organizations, cooperatives
and non-government organizations.
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The skills of DA planning officers will likewise be upgraded to enable them to

become capable analysts and planners. Since the AFMP crosses administrative
and political boundaries, analytical planners should be able to see how a municipal
strategy could help in achieving broader regional targets. Planners also need to be
able to integrate local plans into a higher level plan. This would require
coordination and synchronization of the various stages of local and national
government planning. The DA planning officers knowledge and skills will
therefore be enhanced and strengthened, through both short-term interventions
such as seminars and workshops, and long-term programs such as scholarships to
post-graduate courses. To help local planners, the DA will coordinate with LGUs
for the conduct of training for municipal and provincial agricultural officers in
planning and in facilitating planning exercises. It will also provide specific
guidelines on how local AFMPs could be formulated and then integrated into the
higher level plan.
Planning for the institutionalization of climate change-proof functional plans is
likewise imperative. DA planners will thus also be continually equipped with
knowledge and skills on climate change and the technologies that promote
resiliency to it in the agriculture and fisheries sector to enable them to integrate
related concerns into the plans to be formulated in the future.
3. Strengthening of Monitoring and Evaluation. To improve plan formulation and
implementation, the DA will prioritize the strengthening of its monitoring and
evaluation system. This will be achieved through the implementation of the eplanning system which will keep track of the operationalization of the activities of
the different operating units of the Department. Monitoring will be more focused on
plan performance, that is, on achieving outcomes and impact. One of the indicators
added for the policy and planning function in the AFMP is the conduct of evaluative
studies. Through these studies, the Department will be able to cull lessons learned
from the implementation of interventions that can be used in the
formulation/continuation/ termination of programs, projects and activities. The M&E
system, moreover, will also focus on the performance of the Department as a whole
and of the agriculture and fisheries sector. This will enable the DA to have a wider
planning perspective that encompasses not only its own operations but also the needs
of the sector as a whole, thus giving it a better opportunity to be more relevant.
4. Enhancing the plan-budget linkage at all levels. The DA will strengthen the link
between plan and budget, mainly through performance-based financial incentives.
It will prioritize providing funding support to LGUs that collaborate with the RFU
in the development of local AFMPs. This way, funds would be more rationally
allocated, while providing added motivation for LGUs and RFUs to jointly go
through a thorough planning and budgeting process. Through the AFMP, the
Department will slowly move towards functional budgets instead of commoditybased budgets. Functional budgets would remove the perceived long-standing
biases in favor of specific commodities which had been given bigger budgets in the
past. Functional budgets also provide a better overall view of the DAs track
towards how it will achieve its functional plans.
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5. Operation of the Unified and Enterprise Geospatial Information System. The DA

will establish a centralized and consolidated database of spatial and related nonspatial information in agriculture and fisheries that will be accessible to its
numerous agencies and stakeholders through its information and communication
infrastructure. The database, the Unified and Enterprise Geospatial Information
System (UEGIS), will contain the following area-specific information:
a. Results of soil/land and water parameters land suitability
assessments/analyses based on physical and economic considerations;
b. Results of vulnerability assessments;
c. Inventory of environmental resources and their conditions;
d. Inventory of public and private agriculture and fishery investments, such as
farm-to-market roads; irrigation, marketing, and post-harvest facilities; and
farm machinery;
e. Location and dependability of water sources;
f. Distribution of the different types of livestock;
g. Location specific support services;
h. Strategic Agriculture and Fisheries Development Zones (SAFDZs);
i. Agriculture and fisheries production and productivity information;
j. Integrated Development Plans (IDP) per zone/area;
k. Results of profiling and temporal analyses on coastal sensitive habitats,
fisheries production data, production areas, post-harvest facilities, landing
sites, and markets;
l. Fishery resource management interventions; and
m. Fisher population distribution.
An important feature of the UEGIS is the availability of various thematic maps
through a portal linked to the Philippine Geoportal of the National Mapping and
Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA). The BSWM, in coordination with
NAMRIA, will be charged with the generation, and posting of the maps on, and the
upkeep of, the UEGIS portal. For the fisheries sector, BFAR will take lead in the
data collection, and the corresponding GIS activities.
The UEGIS will be rolled-out nationwide and will be linked to a reliable and
comprehensive database for agriculture, which is intended, not only to address
existing data gaps but, more importantly, to improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of support policies to farmers. Regional RS/GIS laboratories shall be
established and enhanced to serve as an avenue for data generation, analysis, and
integration at the regional level.
The outputs of the UEGIS will assist the government focus interventions where
these are most needed and where its resources will have greater multiplier effects.
These are key inputs for better decision making and improved governance, more
precise planning and programming, and improved service delivery.
The key outputs in policy and planning include policy studies and advocacy materials;
legislative agenda; updated development plans; program and project proposals (to
operationalize policies and plans); and monitoring and evaluation reports, including
impact studies. Other outputs are the operational UEGIS, international agreements
concluded and stakeholder consultations.
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5.4.3 Agriculture Statistics

In support of the DAs policy and planning activities, the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
(BAS), being the Philippine governments official statistical agency for agriculture, fishery
and related fields, will participate actively in five major activities during the plan period:
1. Conduct of regular national surveys and other statistical activities. Aside from
regular surveys, BAS will to undertake five (5) special/developmental
projects/activities. One project is the establishment of the Philippine Food Security
Information System, a web-based information system on food security that will
enhance food security planning, implementation, and evaluation through the
improved organization, analysis, and dissemination of relevant data. This will be
implemented at the national level and in three (3) regions. The second project is the
establishment of a database on organic agriculture that would contain a profile of
organic farms and farmers engaged in organic farming, as well as other related
information nationwide. The three other activities of BAS during the plan period
are the conduct of a barangay agricultural profiling survey, an integrated farm
household survey in all regions and provinces, and a capital formation survey in all
regions to generate benchmark information on the level and structure of capital
accumulated by agricultural households.
2. Development of new information systems/databases.
New information
systems/databases are the foundation of the system that generates data/reports that
will be distributed to clients. These are developed once a new regular
survey/special project commences. Databases are developed as well in the BAS
websites and these are what users access when looking for agricultural statistics.
3. Maintenance of information systems/databases. BAS will maintain the
information systems/databases that it would have developed during the plan period,
especially those found in its websites.
4. Distribution and/or dissemination of statistical reports to clients. Reports are
generally prepared in the Central Office except in a few regions which, on their own
initiative, prepare their regional reports. These reports are published and made
available to the general public. Statistical information are also disseminated through
the mass media, manly through radio and television, when warranted. Another means
of disseminating agricultural statistics is the BAS website and itssub-websites like the
BAS Country STAT and BAS Electronic Archiving Network Services. The latter
gives access to metadata of agricultural statistics. Throughout the plan period, BAS
will continue improving these agricultural statistics/data dissemination activities.
5. Maintenance of a clientele database at the national and regional levels. BAS
shall continue counting all the clients who have accessed data through its Public
Assistance Counter PAC, web inquiry form, mobile messaging, fax, telephone, or
mail. It will also continue categorizing the means of access of data as well as the
type of information accessed at the national level and in all regions.
6. Maintenance and updating of the website/webpages. The BAS currently
maintains one main website and two (2) sub-websites. These websites are the
repository of agricultural statistics that can be accessed by clients any time. In
2012-2017, the agency will continue maintaining these sites and, when warranted
and able, upgrade its capabilities.
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7. Establishment of a Climate Change database. In support of the DAs program to

flag activities that will help the sector cope with climate change, BAS will establish a
data series that will help determine the impact of the phenomenon on agriculture and
fisheries. It will start establishing the series on the effect of weather disturbances on
palay yield and then expand the activity to include other commodities.
5.4.4 Credit Facilitation

The DA targets to increase the proportion of farmers and fishers borrowing from formal
sources from 57% to 85%, or an increase of 28%, by the end of the planning period.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Credit Strategic Plan identifies strategies that will make
credit more accessible to small farming and fishing households, consistent with the
market-based approach to agriculture lending mandated in the AFMA. These strategies
shall encourage private financial institutions to participate in the provision of the needed
financial services in the agriculture and fishery sector. More particularly, the government
shall provide support to the private sector in developing financial products (savings, credit,
and insurance) and lending schemes tailor-fitted to the needs of farmers and fishers (e.g.,
adoption of the interlinked transaction principles in developing new lending schemes and
the development of lending facilities and products to finance facilities/equipment that will
enhance and improve agricultural productivity).
The Agro-Industry Modernization Credit and Financing Program (AMCFP), the umbrella
credit program for agriculture and fisheries, will be sustained and strengthened. This facility
has been providing financing for farm, off-farm, and non-farm income-generating projects
of small farming and fishing households using two modes, namely: (1) the wholesalerretailer approach and (2) the depository scheme. Through the wholesaler-retailer lending
approach, government and private financing institutions serve as AMCFP wholesalers that
lend to rural-based credit retailers composed of qualified private banks, farmer cooperatives,
and NGOs. These AMCFP credit retailers, in turn, grant loans to eligible small farmers and
fishers. Under the depository mode, AMCFP Funds are placed as special time deposits in
partner cooperative banks for lending to small farmers and fishers. Lending under this
scheme, implemented in September 2011 through the Cooperative Banks Agriculture
Lending Program,will be expanded as this set-up, by eliminating the need for a wholesaler,
results in lower interest rates for small farmers and fishers.
The AMCFP will also intensify support for the development of innovative financing schemes
including micro-agri and fisheries financing and household cash-flow based financing.
The DA will advocate the implementation of AFMA provisions on AMCFP funding and
scope. This will increase financing for the following: (1) long-gestating crops; (2) projects
requiring longer loan maturity such as the acquisition of farm machinery, equipment, and
facilities; and (3) indigenous peoples projects and projects for climate change adaptation
and mitigation.
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In relation to the strengthening/expansion of AMCFP, action will be taken to strengthen

the capacity of the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) to conduct policy and
action research, monitoring and evaluation, and institutional capacity building (ICB).
Agri-Agra law
The ACPC will pursue measures to encourage banks to increase lending to agriculture and
fisheries and comply with the Agri-Agra Law. It will reviewthe implementation of credit
guarantee programs for agriculture and fisheries, such as the Agricultural Guarantee Fund
Pool (AGFP). Credit guarantee programs serve as substitutes for collateral and credit track
record required by financial institutions of loan applicants, especially small agricultural
producers. The AGFP offers guarantee cover to lending institutions, including banks,
farmer cooperatives and associations, NGOs, and MSMEs for unsecured loans extended to
small farmers and fishers. It covers up to 85% of the loan exposure of these lending
institutions and includes all types of risks of default including non-payment due to
weather, pests and diseases, and other fortuitous events, except those arising from willful
default and/or fraud.
The ACPC will also pursue the development of a database of small farmers and fishers to
reduce the costs incurred by banks in gathering information such as credit history, farm
size and location, and project particulars that are required in processing loan applications.
Long-term financing
The ACPC will coordinate with concerned regulatory agencies in developing regulations
that support long-term financing for long-gestating crops such as coconut, rubber, oil
palm, coffee, cacao, and fruit trees similar to those available in Indonesia, Malaysia and
Thailand, as well as joint-venture investment and lending facilities for value-chain
financing. Policies to promote the acceptability of chattels and movable assets in
agriculture as collateral will also be pursued.
Risk protection and risk transfer mechanisms
The DA will focus attention on the development of appropriate risk protection and risk
transfer mechanisms for the agriculture sector. The efficiency and effectiveness of the
current crop insurance program implemented by the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
(PCIC) will be reviewed to better harness private sector-public sector partnership in
providing agricultural insurance. The DA will work to increase government funding support
to diversify the insurance portfolio with the inclusion of non-traditional insurance programs
and to enhance the marketability of insurance programs by strengthening intermediary
linkages. To enjoin private sector insurance providers to develop and distribute innovative
insurance products for the agriculture sector, appropriate schemes and mechanisms to
encourage public-private sector partnership will be considered while infrastructure support
needed by the private sector in developing appropriate parametric insurance products that
address the risks associated with agricultural lending (e.g. natural catastrophes) will be
provided. The DA will also undertake various measures to prepare small farmers and fishers
for natural calamities (e.g. early warning systems, climate field school to equip farmers,
fishers, and extension workers with the capacity to utilize technologies effectively) as
discussed elsewhere in the Plan.
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Credit Database and Information Dissemination

The DA will promote the development of a credit database for small farmers and fishers as
part of the UEGIS. It will also support the establishment of a collateral registry for
agricultural chattels and other securities used for agricultural projects. The ACPC will
strengthen its M & E capabilities and work with credit, guarantee, and insurance
institutions and banking and finance industry associations to develop and implement a
communication program to disseminate information on available credit, guarantee and
insurance policies and programs.
Capability- and Bankability-building
The DA will also expand and promote programs that build the capacity of small farmers
and fishers cooperatives/other organizations to manage credit funds. The ACPC will seek
additional funding for institutional capability building to increase outreach; regularly
conduct needs assessment; develop, implement and evaluate programs in the area; and
document good practices. To enhance the credit creditworthiness and bankability of small
farmers and fishers, it will endorse to ATI and the Cooperative Development Authority
recommendations to enhance training, technical assistance, and other related activities on
farm technology, farm management, entrepreneurship, preparation of business plans, and
other training that would help build farmers loan absorptive capacity and bankability.
Targets
Projections for 2012 show that more than PhP 1.0 billion in loans shall have been released
to 35,279 small farmers and fishers using AMCFP funds under its major programs,
namely, the (1) Cooperative Banks Agri-Lending Program; (2) Agricultural Microfinance
Program; (3) Cooperatives Agricultural Lending Program; and (4) the newly-launched
Sikat-Saka Credit Program for the FSSP.
During the plan period, ACPC estimates that a total of PhP 50 billion in loans are needed
to finance the credit requirements of the priority commodities (e.g., rice, white corn, and
cassava) in support of the FSSP and other commodity programs (e.g., high value crops,
livestock, and poultry) of the DA. A total of 2,979,624 farmer and fisher borrowers
nationwide shall be served.
To meet the credit requirements of the agriculture and fisheries sector and as provided for
in the AFMA, about PhP 3 billion in loanable funds are needed on an annual basis. Of
this amount PhP 2.85 billion is earmarked for credit while the rest will finance other
programs of ACPC, namely: ICB, monitoring and evaluation, policy research and
advocacy. The increased amount of loanable funds for the AMCFP is expected to increase
the incidence of formal borrowing by at least 4% per annum to achieve the PDP goal of
85% incidence of formal borrowing by 2016.
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Credit Facilitation
In 2011, the RFUs and the DAs operating units provided assistance to 90,479 individual
farmers and 262 cooperatives and farmer-organizations. Over the next six years (20122017), about 1,536,471 farmers and fishers and 6,558 farmer-organizations/groups will be
assisted by the DAs RFUs and BAACs. These include those that will be assisted by the
ACPCs ICB programs and projects.
Guarantee
The Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corporation aims to increase the amount of
guarantee coverage from PhP 560 million in 2012 to over PhP 1.0 billion in 2017 and from
only 8,428 beneficiaries in 2012 to 26,222 in 2017 or an average increase of 13% and
21%, respectively. Funding for 2012 will mainly be sourced from corporate funds
amounting to PhP 853 million. Starting 2013 to 2017 funds for its guarantee operations
need to be increased.
On the other hand, the AGFP has been able to provide guarantee coverage for loans
amounting to almost PhP 5 billion in 2011, benefiting more than 114,000 small farmers
and fishers. The program is targeting a total coverage of PhP 5.3 billion guarantee
coverage and 130,000 farmer/fishers-beneficiaries yearly for the next six years for a total
of PhP 32 billion in loans guaranteed. The AGFP is using its PhP 4.4 billion guarantee
funds sourced from government-owned and controlled corporations, government financial
institutions, and the national government for its guarantee operation since 2008.
Insurance
To cover more farmers and fishers, the PCIC is targeting to increase its coverage in 2012
to 2017. For PCIC to be able to provide the target insurance coverage, its capitalization
should be increased by about PhP 3.3 billion over the next six years.
Inputs
To produce these outputs, a budget of PhP 37.8 billion is required by the DA operating
units. Some P17.5 billion shall be for credit facilitation, mainly government subsidy on
insurance premium. About PhP 11.1 billion shall be used for policy and planning while
PhP 4.4 billion will go to information support. QuedanCor plans to put in additional
corporate funds for credit facilitation.
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Table 14.Inputs for Policy and Planning Support

Policy and
Planning Support
Policy and Planning
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
CO Ous
Credit Facilitation
(excluding Quedancor)
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
ACPC
PCIC
Quedan Cor
Information Support
RFUs
Banner Programs
Commodity BACs
Other BACs
CO Ous
2011
791,692
40,761
548,115
104,025
26,791
0
2012
1,055,481
42,307
689,714
159,244
118,494
45,722
2013
2,008,916
52,308
844,571
303,097
135,541
673,398
229,792
382,677
1,417,344
0
2,656
26,100
7,658
193,378
0
414,519
289
58,027
3,822
352,381
0
200
16,689
26,207
6,320
333,262
560,000
530,105
286
82,073
6,951
440,795
0
300
16,579
26,223
1,007,613
366,629
808,000
578,583
836
84,197
11,604
480,976
970
Budget (P000)
2014
1984,751
54,460
1,113,154
203,116
204,316
409,705
2015
1,745,790
57,166
1,166,896
184,893
248,655
88,180
2016
1,749,104
62,039
1,234,060
202,110
225,625
25,270
2017
1,856,769
67,730
1,301,987
219,441
238,079
29,532
3,506,586
3,608,605
4,518,055
3,816,319
300
19,060
26,239
2,967,137
493,850
755,500
639,810
929
95,771
10,638
532,472
0
300
21,504
26,261
2,967,357
593,183
728,600
687,587
725
97,052
11,527
578,283
0
100
24,843
26,281
2,967,582
1,499,249
1,024,100
750,334
750
103,538
12,248
633,799
0
100
28,289
26,306
2,969,880
791,745
983,800
806,697
788
104,208
12,264
689,437
0
5.5 Climate Change

The devastating typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng in 2009, the El Nio episode and the lashing
of typhoon Juan in 2010, and the onslaught of the successive typhoons Pedring and Quiel
in 2011 are weather anomalies that preview the new normal. The Philippine
Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) of the
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) projects that for the years 2020 and 2050,
progressively higher temperatures will be experienced in the country, causing longer hot
days and shorter cold days. It predicted that there will be increased extreme rainfall in
Luzon, while a decreasing trend will be observed in Visayas and Mindanao. These
increased frequency and intensity of typhoons, prolonged dry spells, increases in
temperature, and changing rainfall patterns, including sea level rise, are harsh realities
brought about by climate change. These new normal conditions add to the pressures of
scarce resources and economic challenges that the agriculture and fisheries sector need to
hurdle.
5.5.1 Policy and Implementation Program on Climate Change

The DA formulated, and started implementing in 2011 its policy and programon climate
change. This policy and program aim to build up the adaptive capacity of farming and
fishing communities with, and increase the resilience of natural ecosystems on, extreme
weather conditions. During the plan period, it will continue with its implementation of this
policy and program and will mainstream climate change considerations in all its programs
and projects. Consistent with the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP), it will
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prioritize the development and promotion of appropriate and effective adaptation measures
to help minimize the adverse effects, or exploit the beneficial opportunities, of climate
change, especially adaptation tools, technologies, and practices with mitigation potential.
5.5.2 Strategies
Seven strategic areas for intervention, as outlined in the Departments policy and
implementation program, were considered in crafting this Plan and will be vigilantly
pursued. These are:
1. Climate Information System. The establishment of a Climate Information System
uses a two-pronged approach to generate timely and reliable data for disaster risk
reduction and management. The first prong is the conduct of vulnerability and risk
assessments of productive areas under the UEGIS Project. BSWM and ITCAF,
with support of the BAS and the RFUs, will complete this vulnerability mapping in
order to provide strategic inputs for updating this Plan.
The second is the provision of agro-meteorological (agromet) stations, distributed
in such density as to allow the use of, and get accurate results from, climate
projection models and provide localized weather information, including the early
determination of emerging pest pressures. BSWM will lead in the rolling out of
these stations in partnership with PAGASA, DA research stations, other DA units,
and SCUs. The BPI, BAI and BFAR will intensify their respective pest population
surveys and develop predictive models for pest resurgence.
2. Research and Development for Adaptive Tools, Technologies, and Practices.
BAR will lead in the full engagement of the agriculture and fisheries science sector
to generate knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation measures. Early
research efforts in the development of climate-sensitive rice varieties will be
furthered to determine the actual levels of drought, submergence or saline
tolerance these climate resistant varieties can withstand. Similar R&D efforts on
other crops, livestock, poultry, and fisheries will be prioritized. Studies on
adaptive production management and alternative practices to effectively address all
areas being challenged by climate change will be given due attention.
3. Repair and Improvement of Irrigation Systems and Establishment of SWIPS &
SFRs. NIA will assess the vulnerability of national and communal irrigation
systems and their watersheds. Existing systems will be repaired to enhance
resilience where necessary. The design and management of irrigation systems will
be improved to reduce leakage and optimize water use providing production
areas the right amounts of water at the right time and allowing water reuse. BSWM
and RFUs will promote SWIPS, SFRs and other rainwater harvesting initiatives.
4. Climate Change Adaptive Infrastructures. The DA will support the development
of new designs and construction protocols for infrastructure to withstand strong
winds, floods, water intrusion, and other adverse effects of extreme weather events.
Production and postharvest facilities, including fishery infrastructure, will be made
more climate-resilient.
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5. Windows for Financing and Instruments for Risk Transfer. The DA will develop
new innovative financing schemes to help the most vulnerable stakeholders in the
agriculture and fishery sector, particularly right after an extreme event. A quick
response fund will be set up to provide emergency support to farmers in affected
production areas. The support will be in the form of certified seeds and other inputs
to enable a quick turn-around for farmers to resume production activities.
To complement this financial assistance scheme, new instruments for risk transfer
had been modeled and are now ready for roll-out, such as the weather index-based
insurance and the area-based yield systems. Related to this, the efficiency and
effectiveness of the current crop insurance program implemented by the PCIC will
be reviewed with the end-view of harnessing private-public sector partnerships in
providing agricultural insurance. Private insurance providers will be enjoined to
develop and promote innovative insurance products for the agriculture sector.
Finally, infrastructure support needed to develop and implement insurance
products will be provided.
6. Regulations to Ensure Effectiveness and Safety. DA regulatory agencies will
ensure that new kinds of pesticides, fertilizers and other inputs, including
genetically modified crops and organisms, that may be created or brought in to
address the changing weather patterns will comply with safety standards.
7. Fully-engaged Extension System. Led by the ATI, the entire
fishery extension infrastructure will be mobilized to develop
training modules that will inform and educate all stakeholders on
implications of climate change and on alternative adaptation
measures available for the agriculture and fishery sector.
agriculture and
and implement
the science and
and mitigation
The DA will mainstream climate change adaptation in all AFE activities by

implementing the following measures:
a. Building up of capacity on early warning systems and disaster risk
management, climate change adaptation strategies on food production, and
organic agriculture;
b. Conduct of information, education, and communication campaign on
climate change;
c. Operation of learning sites showcasing adaptation strategies;
d. Implementation of community-based production projects;
e. Implementation of Tree for Life, Food for Life, and other similar projects;
f. Establishment and maintenance of community seed banks;
g. Documentation of best practices on climate change adaptation by farmers,
rural women, fishers, and other stakeholders; and
h. Certification of small holders on organic farming,
The DA will intensify AFE to provide options to farmers and fishers to adopt
climate-sensitive farming and fishing technologies such as on urban gardening,
sorjan farming, and adapted cropping systems.
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Inputs
Excluding the requirements of the NFA for rice buffer stocking, the required funding for
climate change initiatives during the plan period totals PhP 7.6 billion, of which PhP 1.1
billion is to be used from 2011 to 2013 (Table 17).
Table 15. Inputs for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Change
TOTAL (excluding NFA)
RFUs
Banner Programs
BFAR
PCA
SRA
BAS
BSWM
NIA
PCIC
NFA rice buffer stocking
2011
113,493
112,228
1,265
2012
291,943
4,698
267,963
2,400
6,365
100
9,900
0
517
1,246,171
2013
728,096
15,264
482,880
2,400
100
6,788
500
0
219,647
517
1,271,702
Budget (P000)
2014
1,565,326
18,317
1,407,291
2,400
100
6,800
1,000
36,850
85,852
6,716
1,297,155
2015
1,617,288
22,580
1,448,718
2,400
100
6,800
1,000
39,650
88,652
7,387
1,323,917
2016
1,653,198
27,277
1,489,443
2,400
100
6,800
1,000
39,600
78,452
8,126
1,350,343
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2017
1,637,801
28,596
1,512,954
2,400
150
6,810
1,000
76,952
8,939
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CHAPTER 6
What We Shall Do: Plan of Action by
Subsector
6.1 Rice
Two main phenomena highlight the need for the Philippines to strive for self-sufficiency
in rice. One, rice is thinly traded in the world market since much of it is consumed
where it is produced. As a matter of fact, very few countries are exporting substantial
volume of rice, namely: Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, and the US. Secondly, the
impacts of climate change have intensified around the world and threaten the capacity to
produce even by our traditional sources of imported rice. It is therefore in the interest of
the state to adopt the policy of food staples self-sufficiency as a strategy to achieve
national food security.
In accordance with the vision of the AFMA for a food secure society where farmers enjoy
a decent and rising standard of living, the DA crafted the Food Staple Self-Sufficiency
Program (FSSP) 2011-2016, which aims to achieve sufficiency in food staples towards
ensuring food security. Self sufficiency will be achieved by inducing the required
productivity and production growths, thereby increasing access to affordable staples.
Increased productivity and production will also raise small farmers and farm workers
income, in the process increasing food security and reducing poverty among them.
Food self-sufficiency is the ability of a population to secure its food needs by its own
production while food security occurs when safe and nutritious food is available,
accessible, and affordable to everyone in all places and at all times. The Philippine
government recognizes that food security is a basic human right and commits to take
appropriate action toward its full realization. The DA, the main Philippine government
agency tasked with the development of the agriculture and fishery sector and, thus, of
ensuring food security, recognizes that while importation may be necessary at times to
secure the supply of food for the population, the reliance on own production to secure food
staples serves the best interest of the country. It considers rice, and to a lesser extent,
white corn, sweet potato, cassava, and banana as the countrys food staples.
6.1.1 Food Staple Self Sufficiency Program 2011-2016

In 2011, the DA embarked on the FSSP, which envisions to achieve rice self-sufficiency
by the end of 2013 and to sustain the sufficiency thereafter. The program aims to attain
production of 20.04 million metric tons (Mmt) in 2013 from the 18.46 Mmt target in 2012,
in order to catch up with the nations rice requirement in the medium term and maintaining
it in the long-term. This will cover the per capita rice consumption of 119 kg/person.
Stabilizing this consumption level will ease the pressure on the production side. On the
other hand, consumption of other staples, which are equally nutritious sources of
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carbohydrates, will be promoted. In collaboration with the corn and high-value crops
development (HVCD) programs, the production and market availability of other staples
such as white corn, sweet potato, cassava and banana will be increased annually. The
availability of these staples in the market at affordable prices will encourage consumers to
diversify their sources of carbohydrates away from rice.
6.1.2 Strategies
Rice self-sufficiency will be pursued through the basic strategies of increasing
productivity and competitiveness, reducing postharvest losses, enhancing economic
incentives and enabling mechanisms, and managing consumption. The program will also
provide interventions that will address the negative effects of climate change and making
the sector more resilient to extreme conditions.
Increasing productivity and competitiveness
Increasing production from 16.68 Mmt in 2011 to 20.04 Mmt in 2013 requires that rice
harvests expand by 3.36 Mmt in two years or at least 9.6% a year. Output will thereafter
have to increase at the same pace as demand for rice self-sufficiency levels to be
maintained.
To increase palay production, area harvested must be expanded and yields must be
increased. Past experiences have shown that short-term solutions to increasing production,
such as input subsidies, cannot be sustained because of their high cost to the government
and the countless leakages in the distribution system, which are impossible to monitor.
Thus, the DA went back to basic interventions that have long-term positive effects on
productivity such as irrigation, mechanization and postharvest value addition, and RDE as
its main interventions. It also put in place interventions that would promote climate
change resiliency. To immediately benefit from the impacts of these interventions in the
short-run and to install the necessary infrastructure for the long-run productivity of the rise
sub-sector, the DA will frontload investments in irrigation development during the period
from 2011 to 2013.
The basic interventions to increase and sustain the gains in palay production are:
1. Development and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems
Irrigation impacts on production in two ways. First, the availability of sufficient
water for rice farming can increase cropping intensity which results in additional
rice area harvested. Second, the availability of water can lead to better crop
management practices, which improve yield. From 2000 to 2009, increase in area
harvested contributed 38% to the growth in production. Meanwhile, studies have
shown that irrigation can lead to a 25% increase in yield.
There are two major sources of irrigation investments. First is NIA which manages
existing, and constructs new, national and communal irrigation systems (NIS and
CIS). The RFUs provide for the construction and maintenance of the small scale
irrigation projects (SSIPs). These irrigation systems, which have greater flexibility in
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operation and maintenance, shorter gestation period, and higher water-use efficiency
than NISs and CISs, consist of small water impounding projects (SWIPs), diversion
dams (DDs) and spring development, small farm reservoirs (SFRs), shallow tube wells
(STWs), and pump irrigation systems from open source (PISOS).
During the plan period, 49,247 has of new, rehabilitated, and restored irrigated
areas will be generated.
2. Promotion of Early/Advanced Planting and Ratooning in Selected Areas (Five
in two- 5)
Under the early cropping calendar scheme, a total of five cropping can be covered
in two years, with the 3rd crop being planted in Oct-March. Through this scheme,
an additional harvest area of 87,648 ha and a potential incremental production of
438,240 mt is expected from a target yield of 5 mt/ha. Additional areas will be
covered in succeeding years. To encourage farmers to join in this strategy, the
program will provide production support, including credit and insurance.
Ratooning will also be encouraged during the periods March-April and
SeptemberNovember for the dry and wet season crops, respectively, in areas
where it has performed well in the past. Ratooning is the practice of managing the
rice stubbles right after the harvest of the main crop so as to activate the dormant
buds to becoming healthy and vigorous ratoon tillers. The ratoon crop will mature
in approximately 65% less time than the main crop. The harvest from this crop will
provide additional production on top of the main crop. Farmers who will venture
into ratooning will be provided with location specific interventions to be identified
by the RFUs in coordination with the LGUs.
3. Increasing of farmers access to, and adoption of, suitable high quality seeds and
integrated crop management practices, as well as increasing of fertilizer use
a. Seed Buffer Stocking, Operation and Maintenance of Community Seedbanks
and Seed Production
High quality seeds of high yielding varieties can increase yield by 10%. In lieu
of the seed subsidy, which has been discontinued, community seed banks will
be established in cooperation with private seed growers to maintain a seed
buffer stock and ensure the availability of seeds. Informal community seed
banks/seed exchange systems will be promoted in areas where private seed
growers do not operate. BPI and Philippine Rice Institute (PhilRice) shall assist
the RFUs in implementing this activity through seed certification and the
production of parental/higher-class seeds, respectively. Seed certification shall
be strengthened by improving and upgrading the national, regional, and
satellite seed testing facilities. RFUs will also maintain its own buffer seed
stocks equivalent to 10% of the planting requirement in the wet season and 5%
in the dry season in their respective areas of jurisdiction.
BPI and PhilRice together with BPI-accredited seed growers shall take the lead
in seed production and distribution, in close coordination with the RFUs and
LGUs, to improve the accessibility and use of certified and hybrid rice seeds
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and to promote the development of better seed to produce better crops.

Farmers/seed growers shall be provided better information on newly-released
varieties registered with the National Seed Quality Control Service. An
effective seed production system and seed linkages and network shall be
strengthened. The program will also encourage the private seed growers to
raise production capacity and improve the distribution of high quality seeds.
b. Increased use of fertilizers and other integrated crop/pest management practices
The Program will increase the use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer in rice areas.
Current application rates of N fertilizer are way below the optimum rates. In
rainfed areas, fertilizer application is limited by the availability of water,
although low N application continues to limit yield even in irrigated areas. The
Program will therefore increase nitrogen application to optimize yields,
especially of high quality seeds. This can be realized through variety of
strategies, depending on local conditions and capacities. Facilitating supply and
distribution, and improving credit and extension tie-up are two of the options
available. Even if farm input subsidy has been suspended by the DA, LGUs
may still be encouraged to provide such subsidies as they see fit. Balanced
fertilization will still be pursued through the establishment of biofertilizer
facilities and the use of farm waste and locally available biomass, including
rice straw. Supplementary irrigation will be provided in rain-fed areas to
optimize the timing and rate of fertilizer application.
Soil analysis and soil fertility mapping will likewise be undertaken through the
provision of soil test kit, leaf color chart, and minus-one-element technique,
and increased access to soil laboratories.
To optimize the interplay of seed quality, land preparation, crop establishment,
nutrients, water, pest control, and harvesting practices in improving yields, as
well as in ensuring the sustainability of the agriculture resource base, the
promotion of integrated crop management will be strengthened. Soil analysis
will thus be conducted regularly. Effective surveillance and monitoring of pests
and diseases at the local level will also be undertaken, especially in the light of
the emerging effects of climate change on infestations. Regional Crop
Protection Center laboratories will also be established, updated and improved.
This involves such interventions as capability building/training of staff. Bantay
Peste brigades will likewise be reconstituted to conduct pest and disease
surveillance and operate early warning systems.
4. Support to the Rain-fed Lowland Ecosystem
Efforts to support the rain-fed lowland ecosystem are designed to support the FSSP
target production increments set for rain-fed lowland areas contribution to the goal
of rice self-sufficiency by the end of 2013.
Annual average yields of rice in the rain-fed lowland rice ecosystem will be
increased through the community-based production of quality seeds, on farm
production of organic fertilizer, the application of micronutrients in deficient areas,
the localization of fertilizer recommendations (balanced fertilization)/optimization
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of fertilizer use efficiency, and sustained proactive community-wide insect and

pests control. Cropping intensity in these areas will also be increased through the
adoption of various farm management technologies, mechanized dry land
preparation, improvement of drainage in seasonally or permanently water logged
farms, and increasing the availability of small scale irrigation facilities, including
rain harvesting and storage structures.
5. Support to Upland Rice Ecosystem
Although upland areas may not contribute significantly to national output, the
development of the upland rice-based farming system will address the food
insecurity of the very poor households in these marginal areas. The main
interventions for these areas will be the promotion of sustainable farming systems
and modern rice varieties along with the upgrading of traditional varieties. Farmer
field schools will promote sustainable agriculture and organic-based food
production, focusing on effective bio-fertilizers for rice, protocols for organic rice
farming, and integrated rice-based farming modules. Community-based seeds and
seed exchange systems for traditional upland rice varieties will be established and
a farming system approach anchored on sustainable agricultural practices will be
promoted.
6. Sustaining of research and development (R&D) in new varieties and crop
management
Previous studies show that RDE can improve yields by as high as 40%. Through
PhilRice, R& D will be undertaken to sustain future yield growth by promoting the
local adaptation of existing technology, breeding new rice varieties to raise the
potential yield in irrigated and rainfed areas, and developing high value products to
add to farmers incomes. Location-specific researches shall be undertaken by
RFUs through the DA-Regional Integrated Area Research Centers (RIARCs) and
in collaboration with SUCs. RIARC facilities will be upgraded to enable these
centers to perform their functions which include seed production. The other seed
production facilities of the RFUs will also be rehabilitated or upgraded to support
the rice activities under the program.
7. Enhancing of the effectiveness and strengthening of the delivery of extension
services
The RFUs, through the ATI, will increase the adoption of recommended rice
technologies. Enhanced extension services will accelerate the adoption of new
technologies, and provide an effective venue for farmers to learn new practices and
innovate. The main approach that will be adopted toward this end is the
combination of extension, education and training initiatives. Extension and
education services will be provided not only to farmer-operator/cultivators but also
to farm workers and service providers.
To beefup the existing extension workforce of the LGUs, the Program will
develop a core of qualified and trained rice farmers as partners and active players
in the development and promotion of modern rice production and post-production
technologies in low-yielding rice-growing barangays. Qualified Local Farmer
Technicians shall be trained on the principles and concepts of rice science in order
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to become local farmer technicians undertaking Participatory Action Researches

Technology Demonstrations on the Palaycheck system.
The extension modalities that will be implemented at the farm level include the
establishment of Farmers Field School and technology demonstrations, conduct of
field days, dissemination of information materials, broadcasting of schools-on-the-air,
conduct of technical visits and briefings, and use of electronic media as appropriate.
8. Promotion of the mechanization of on-farm and post harvest operations
Vital to the attainment of the objective of modernizing the rice sector and improving
rice productivity in the Philippines is the mechanization of farm and postharvest
operations. Mechanization aims to raise the efficiency of farm operations, lower unit
costs, and reduce postharvest losses. Thus, during the plan period, the acquisition of
various farm machinery and postharvest facilities will be encouraged through
counterpart financing schemes and soft loans. The allocation of equipment and
facilities will be based on production levels, technology gaps, potential impact on
yields and productivity, and appropriateness of technology to local needs and
conditions. Specifically, the following shall be undertaken under the Program:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Promotion of the acquisition of appropriate farm machinery;

Provision of appropriate drying facilities;
Modernization of the rice milling industry; and
Provision of affordable access to appropriate farm machinery through
distribution to qualified beneficiaries, establishment of service centers, and
pooling of equipment.
9. Provision of Climate Change Interventions

Agrometeorological weather stations shall be established, to provide accurate and
timely weather data for monitoring and forecasting weather conditions and for
developing local early warning systems. Seeds will also be buffer-stocked to
ensure the supplies in the event of disruptions in the supply chain caused by
extreme weather conditions.
10. Rehabilitation of DA-RFU Facilities
For the effective surveillance and monitoring of pests and diseases at the local level,
Regional Crop Protection Center laboratories will be established, upgraded and
improved. The technical capability of the staff in these facilities will be upgraded
through training and other such initiatives. Bantay Peste brigade will be reconstituted
to conduct pest and disease surveillance and operate early warning systems.
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Enhancing economic incentives and enabling mechanisms

The objective of this strategy is to encourage farmers to boost production by providing
adequate economic incentives and improving access to credit and crop insurance. Price
support, procurement, distribution, and trade policy create powerful incentives to rice
producers, reinforcing the adoption of new technology. Increased access to credit and crop
insurance that effectively address the farmers needs will enable farmers to take advantage
of improved economic opportunities and manage risk.
Reforms will be implemented for the NFA to effectively perform its price support and
procurement functions. NFA will minimize its role in rice distribution and importation,
allowing the private sector greater role in international trading, and instead focus on rice
buffer stocking and domestic procurement.
The NFA Road Map

The DA supports reforms to make the NFA a more effective and efficient agent for ensuring food security.
The NFAs basic mandates are (a) food security through buffer stocking, (b) farm price stabilization and
support, and (c) consumer price and supply support. Unfortunately, the various programs and operational
policies that were used in the past to fulfil these mandates resulted in huge losses for the institution, some
of which were financed through government appropriations but the bulk of which were supported by
borrowings. As a consequence of these borrowings, NFAs debts have reached PhP 177 billion as of 2010,
with attendant servicing costs amounting to more than PhP 10 billion a year. Moreover, the NFAs
operations have neither been effective nor efficient. For example, the farmgate palay procurement
program, which sought to keep palay prices at levels that would motivate farmers to continue producing
rice, and the consumer rice price stabilization program, which sought to keep rice prices low and affordable
to low-income families, worked at cross-purposes with the latter prevailing over the former. The agencys
palay procurement and rice distribution operations had likewise not been targeted, which meant that most
benefits were captured by non-poor farmers and consumers.
The NFA reforms will focus on (a) rationalizing the agencys policies and programs; (b) making the agency
an effective tool for the countrys food security efforts; and (c) making the NFAs operations efficient and
sustainable. These reforms will entail, among other changes:
o NFA allowing the private sector to import most of the countrys buffer stock requirements, with it strengthening
its monitoring of rice supply and prices to anticipate problems and proactively take corrective action. The NFA
will retain the option of importing when the market situation warrants it.
o NFA procuring from organized small farmers in areas where traders are few or inactive in buying at the farm
gate, and where farm gate prices are below the government support price. NFA will be a buyer of last resort,
rather than buyer of first resort.
o NFAs consumer price and supply stabilization being undertaken to moderate price surges rather than to keep
prices low. To protect them, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will provide the poor
subsidies under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program.
o Pending legislation decoupling its regulatory and proprietary functions based on existing best practices,
NFA continuing to perform regulatory activities with a developmental perspective.
The NFA targets to buy a total of 7.9 million metric tons (Mmt) of palay from organized small farmers in 2012
and 5.1 Mmt from 2013 to 2016. It will distribute 1.7 Mmt of rice in 2012 and 5.1 Mmt within 2013 -2016.
The NFA will continue implementing programs that give producers more marketing options, such as the
Farmers Option to Buy Back, the grains exchange program, the Palay Marketing Assistance for Legislators and
LGUs, and the Agricultural Commodity Exchange System. Finally, the NFA will oversee imports of the private
sector under a quota system in accordance with Philippine commitments to the WTO.
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Similarly, farmers access to timely, adequate and affordable credit and crop insurance
will enable farmers to innovate, with the former giving them the wherewithal to procure
the necessary inputs to enable them to adopt the innovation, and the latter making them
less averse to the risk new technologies entail. One innovation in credit delivery is the
Sikat Saka Hybrid Account under the FSSP Loan Fund which provides credit to qualified
individual farmers using a clean land title as table collateral. This lending approach
allows the farmer to establish a credit record.
Meanwhile, the capacity of the PCIC to provide insurance cover to more farmers and
fishers will be strengthened. Its capitalization will be increased to cover governments
share in the insurance premium. Moreover, innovative ways of protecting farmers from
risks will continue to be pilot tested and those show promise, such as weather-based index
insurance, which is expected to speed up payment of claims, will be scaled up.
Managing food staples consumption
The strategy involves demand side interventions for rice combined with supply side
measures for alternative staples to ease the pressure on rice production, in the process
making the goal of achieving self-sufficiency in food staples achievable. It calls for
encouraging the consumption of unpolished rice (which has higher milling recovery rate)
and the reduction of waste. A complementary approach is to encourage the consumption
of alternative staples by intensifying the production of these alternative staples to improve
availability and affordability.
6.1.3 Financial requirements

The budget for the Rice Program under AFMP 2011-2017 totals PhP 51.7 billion, with
about PhP 17.8 billion being programmed for 20112013. A total of PhP 42.8 billion or
more than 80% will go to RFUs. The rest will go to BAS, BAR, ATI and PhilMech for
various activities supporting the sector and to the central office for program management
(Table 18).
Table 16. Inputs for Rice Program
Rice
Total
Infrastructure
RDE
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Interim
2011
4,050,988
1,535,079
1,073,551
45,732
434,788
961,839
2012
6,237,822
3,206,345
1,296,437
56,761
522,205
1,156,073
2013
7,505,014
3,479,486
1,307,394
124,003
556,632
2,037,499
Budget (P000)
2014
8,226,041
4,495,596
1,283,430
137,600
755,215
1,554,200
2015
8,552,428
4,474,234
1,427,152
167,000
762,501
1,721,540
2016
8,536,675
4,426,647
1,514,476
210,900
782,316
1,602,336
2017
8,625,125
4,323,093
1,554,818
210,900
818,197
1,718,118
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6.2 Corn
Corn is the second most important crop in the Philippines. The corn-livestock sector
accounted for 27% of the GVA in agriculture in 2011. Some 600,000 farm households
depend on corn as a major source of livelihood.
About 14 million Filipinos prefer white corn as their main staple. Yellow corn,
meanwhile, is used mainly as feeds and accounts for about 50% of livestock mixed feeds.
Corn is also processed into high value products, such as cornstarch, corn syrups, corn oil,
gluten, and snack foods.
The domestic corn sector has been plagued with production and marketing inefficiencies.
These inefficiencies are due to the following: (1) low adoption of modern corn production
technologies, (2) high incidence of post-harvest losses, and (3) high transport and
marketing costs due to inadequate infrastructure. Studies, however, reveal that corn
production in some regions, (i.e. Cagayan Valley, Northern Mindanao, and Southern
Mindanao)are cost efficient and have competitive advantage relative to imports.
6.2.1 Goals and Objectives

The DA Corn Program has the following goals:
1. Attain self-sufficiency in corn by 2013;
2. Increase the income of farmers by at least PhP 8,000 to PhP 10,000 per hectare;
and
3. Increase consumption of white corn and cassava by at least 1kg per capita per year
in support to the Food Staples Sufficiency Program.
The programs more specific objectives are:
1. To achieve self-sufficiency in feed crops (yellow corn and cassava), and thereby:
a) sustain the growing demand of the livestock and poultry sub-sectors; b)help
stabilize prices in the local market; c) ensure a steady supply of white corn grains
and cassava; and d) expand the market for high-quality white corn grits to help
ease the pressure on rice demand;
2. To continue promoting productivity-enhancing and cost-reducing measures or
technologies that better assist corn and cassava farmers towards earning more
incomes;
3. To become cost- and quality-competitive in feed crops production in comparison
with the other major feed crops-producing countries, and empower and help
protect our local farmers; and
4. To help strengthen the resiliency and coping capacity of corn and cassava
farmers by developing and promoting climate change adaptation technologies
(e.g., improved corn varieties and appropriate postharvest facilities) and climate
change mitigating measures (e.g., adoption of organic-based agriculture).
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6.2.2 Program Strategies

Introduction of Modern Technology Systems
The Program will continue to consolidate existing crop areas as well as idle prime lands,
converted sugar lands, and coconut land intercropped with corn, into farm clusters for
mechanized and /or irrigated production of hybrid corn, open pollinated variety (OPV)
white corn, cassava, and high value crops. Farm clustering will enable small farm holders
to take advantage of communal inputs and services as well as the scale economies of
mechanized farming technologies. Modern technology systems and good agricultural
practices will be introduced into the farm clusters to enhance productivity and reduce
production costs.
Farm Cluster-Private Sector Production and Marketing Tie-Ups
A critical component of the Program is the facilitation of arrangements between farmers
and agribusiness groups in the development of corn farm clusters. Different business
partnership modalities will be encouraged between farmer cooperatives and the private
sector to provide ready markets and technical and management support to the former.
These modes include
purchase orders, service or management contracts, contract
growing or processing arrangements, lease agreements, and joint ventures.
Government Interventions as Catalysts
To ensure that corn farm cluster enterprises will attain increased productivity and
profitability, the Program will invest in the requisite services and infrastructure, such as
farm-to-market roads (FMRs), irrigation, and postharvest facilities. It will initially
provide farm machinery and postharvest facilities to catalyze private sector investments in
modern agricultural mechanization. To ensure adequate funds are available for these
enterprises, a system of investment windows offering financing options will be opened to
investors, including integrators, anchor firms, and agricultural developers.
Production Credit Support
To ensure the adoption of modern crop production technologies, the Program will enhance
farmers access to credit for the purchase of production inputs and facilities through
innovative credit schemes. It will establish a seed guarantee fund for loans from input
suppliers, end-users, traders, service providers, as well as the formal banking sector.
Area Expansion and Yield Improvement
Corn production will be intensified through area expansion and yield improvement. Area
expansion will be pursued by promoting the development of idle and new lands suitable
for corn production and the intercropping of corn and/or cassava with coconut. Yield will
be increased by optimizing yield potentials and promoting shifting from traditional
varieties to OPV and OPV to hybrid varieties. These strategies will be achieved through
the appropriate RDE activities.
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Human Resource Development

The Program will enter into partnerships with the private sector to train farmers on hybrid
technologies, farm mechanization, and postharvest and processing technologies. It will
likewise promote local capacity-building in the areas of participatory program management
and implementation, research and extension, and agribusiness marketing and management.
6.2.3 Outputs
Production Support Services
The following activities will be undertaken to showcase cost-reducing technologies:
1. White Corn Seed Distribution and Exchange Subsidy, under which quality
registered and certified OPV corn seeds will be produced and distributed under
counterpart arrangements with LGUs to farmers practicing coconut-corn
intercropping and those in the uplands whose main staple is white corn grits;
2. Support to Cassava Production through the provision of high-yielding varieties of
cassava seed pieces in support of contract growing arrangements between farmers
and processors/end-users, as well as the distribution of post-harvest facilities under
counterpart funding arrangements;
3. Organic-Based Agriculture Program, which includes (a) the establishment of
mixing plants and organic fertilizer production centers and the promotion of the
use of Bio-N and organic fertilizer in partnership with LGUs; (b) the establishment
of technology demonstration farms and the distribution of lime/dolomite to farmer
cooperatives to correct soil acidity in the farm clusters; (c) soil fertility mapping
and sampling undertaken by the RFUs and the BSWM; and (d) the implementation
of the AgriKalikasan Program which promotes sustainable agricultural practices;
4. Biological Control Program, under which(a) Bantay Peste Brigades will be
established and maintained, (b) trichogramma cards and earwigs will be produced
and distributed at cost by RFUs and NGOs for the control of corn borers, and (c)
the conduct of pest and disease surveillance operations by RFUs, LGUs, and
farmer-based surveillance teams;
5. Pilot Farm Mechanization and Tractor Pool Program, under which farm tractors
and implements (plows and other attachments, and mechanical planters) will be
provided under counterpart arrangements with LGUs, farmer organizations, and
service providers;
6. Rehabilitation Assistance, under which production inputs, such as quality hybrid
and OPV seeds and microbial inoculants, will be provided in a timely manner to
assist farmers who are victims of natural calamities; and
7. National and Regional Field Monitoring, under which the Program directorate
shall conduct periodic monitoring of activities at the field level and report to
management relevant information for policy reforms or program actions.
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Irrigation Development Services.

The Small Farm Irrigated Corn Production Program will be implemented. This
program involves the provision and construction of STWs under counterpart arrangements
with LGUs and farmer organizations for pilot irrigated corn cluster-wide projects.
Post Harvest Development Services
To reduce corn farmers postharvest losses and enable them to add more value to their
produce, the following will be implemented:
1. Post Harvest Facilities Program, under which post-harvest processing and trading
centers, village-type driers, corn mills, hammer mills, hermetic cocoons, cassava
chippers, cassava granulators, cassava graters, and other postharvest equipment
will be made available under counterpart arrangements with LGUs, farmer
organizations, and service providers;
2. Aflatoxin Prevention Program, which will establish an Aflatoxin Testing
Laboratory and implement an aflatoxin prevention program among corn farmers in
partnership with BAFPS, PhilMech, and other stakeholders; and
3. Technical Post Harvest Monitoring, which involves the provision by the
PhilMechof technical assistance, technical evaluation, and monitoring of LGUbased postharvest facilities.
Market Development Services
The following interventions will be undertaken to improve the access of corn and cassava
farmers and processors to markets:
1. Corn-Based Agribusiness Systems Technology (COAST) Program Monitoring,
in which the objective is to generate private sector investments in the corn industry
through joint venture arrangements or CORPORATIVES with farmer cooperatives
in farm clusters, and under which will be established pilot COAST production
schemes that cover irrigated corn and corn-based farming systems, mechanized
production, and postharvest and processing activities under which farm machinery
will be provided under counterpart arrangements with LGUs, farmer cooperatives,
and service providers;
2. Market Development and Support, in which activities that facilitate marketing tieups and contract growing arrangements will be undertaken;
3. Corn Marketing and Price Information Network, which is a joint DA-AMASITCAF-NFA project that will provide timely price and market information to farm
clusters utilizing and enhancing the NFA-managed Electronic Corn Marketing
System.
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Extension Support, Education and Training Services

The DA will continue implementing and enhancing its programs to ensure that enough
appropriate information, especially those on productivity-enhancing and cost-reducing
technologies, reaches the corn and cassava farmers and processors to enable them to
capture more of markets. The following interventions will be, or continue to be,
implemented:
1. Farmer Education Program, under which the following courses will be offered to,
and conducted for, the various stakeholders in the corn industry: (a) Corn
Specialist Training courses through the University of Southern Mindanao; (b)
training of trainers courses for LGU-based extension personnel, including
curriculum development, through the ATI; (c) Corn Cluster/Integrated Pest
Management (IPM)farmer field schools; (d) entrepreneurial training or
agribusiness training courses for cooperatives; (e) the Post Harvest Technology
Promotion, Extension and Training by the PhilMech in support of the Farmer
Scientist Training Program; and (f) IPM course;
2. Support to LGU Extension Workers, under which the DA will provide
performance-based support to LGU-based extension personnel, including traveling
allowances; and
3. Advocacy and Information Activities.
Research and Development Services
A strong R&D is vital to the establishment of a productive, efficient, and sustainable corn
industry. The advent of the new globalized trading order and the consequent increased
competition for domestic and international markets require that, among other imperatives,
the country continuously develop and promote technologies that increase the
competitiveness of its agricultural products, including corn. Adding to the need for a more
vigorous R&D is the emergence and resurgence of pests and diseases due to climate
change. Particularly for the corn industry, the following initiatives will be strengthened:
1. Institutional Corn Research and Development, under which BAR shall provide
funding support for institutional researches on integrated soil management, costreducing production, and postharvest and processing technologies conducted by
RFUs, agricultural schools, colleges, and universities; and
2. Farmers Participatory Technology Development Program, under which grants
administered by the BPI are provided for farmer-managed field researches to
develop location-specific technologies and to address specific field problems.
Regulatory Services
In the light of the globalization of trade, corn must be of high quality and safe for human
consumption to protect the consuming public and to increase its competitiveness. In pursuit
of this goal, the Corn Standards Development and Promotion Program will be
implemented. This is a joint program of the BAFPS and the NFA to develop and implement
classification and grading standards for the marketing of white and yellow corn grains.
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Information Support Services

The following interventions will also be implemented during the plan period:
1. Development and Implementation of Information Technology Systems, which
involves the operationalization and maintenance of IT systems for program
management and implementation; and
2. Management Information System, which is the development and
operationalization of the Programs management information system by the BAS
and ITCAF.
Policy Formulation and Advocacy Services
The Program Directorate shall continue to coordinate with corn farmers, the livestock and
poultry sector, feedmillers and other stakeholders in the formulation and advocacy of
policies conducive to agribusiness in the corn industry and other industries related to it.
More specifically, it will undertake the following initiatives:
1. Policy Formulation and Statistics, which involves the provision of support to (a)
policy studies, specifically on the development of econometric and representative
farm models to evaluate the impacts of WTO and AFTA-related policies on
domestic corn production and utilization, and farm incomes as well as (b) the
development of corn statistics through nationwide surveys by the BAS; and
2. Program Benefit and Impact Evaluation, which involves the conduct of annual
program benefit and impact evaluation studies to be undertaken by the BAS.
6.2.4 Inputs
The Program will require some PhP 12 billion over the plan period. Approximately PhP
2.8 billion is programmed from 20112013(Table 19).
Table 17. Inputs for Corn Program
Corn
Shallow Tube Well Projects
Other Infra
Research and Development
Extension
Agribusiness and Market
Assistance
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
Total
2011
0
0
3,180
129,312
2012
12,810
338,610
4,305
161,857
2013
15,050
487,351
6,615
259,041
4,455
4,455
4,839
7,200
2,000
3,000
0
6,985
302,500
0
458,632
7,970
560
3,000
0
6,985
380,322
0
920,874
24,677
8,050
5,087
0
8,040
648,145
0
1,466,894
Budget (P000)
2014
19,320
910,250
73,455
438,423
2015
19,320
967,345
83,715
447,701
2016
19,320
1,007,745
83,815
453,386
2017
19,320
1,007,745
83,815
453,386
15,039
15,089
15,159
15,159
42,768
12,700
220,803
75,000
7,860
527,957
0
2,343,575
44,518
12,700
229,686
75,000
7,860
563,186
0
2,466,120
44,613
12,700
235,080
75,000
7,972
611,582
0
2,566,372
44,613
12,700
235,080
75,000
7,972
611,582
0
2,566,372
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6.3 High Value Crops

Current governance of the high value crops sub-sector leaves the primary responsibility
for the growth and development of the traditional high-value crops, i.e., coconut, sugar,
tobacco, and fibers, to the attached agencies PCA, SRA, NTA, and FIDA, respectively.
That for the growth and development of the new, emerging high-value crops is left to the
High-Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP).
6.3.1 The High Value Crops Development Program

Objectives and Key Result Areas
The five major objectives of the HVCDP and their corresponding key result areas are:
1. Facilitate and harmonize development interventions in the strategic production
area(s)/zone(s) by strengthening coordination and partnership among DA agencies,
producers, LGUs, NGOs, and other major stakeholders in the crafting of local high
value crops development agenda and by providing support to such agenda;
2. Deliver appropriate development support services through: (a) participatory
technology development; (b) promotion of sustainable farming technologies; (c)
provision of production inputs; (d) enhancement of efficiency levels in farm
operation and management; (e) establishment of postharvest facilities, as well as
the undertaking of value-adding and product development initiatives; and (f)
pursuit of local and national research and development agenda;
3. Facilitate and promote access to local and international markets by supporting
efforts to increase farmers competitiveness, facilitating investments into highly
viable enterprises, and supporting market-matching and promotion activities at
both local and international levels;
4. Proactively manage demand and supply by supporting the full utilization of local
and indigenous crop species with net potential, and coordinating and supporting
consumer awareness programs; and
5. Enhance sector resilience to climate change risks by supporting the following: (a)
provision of production inputs (irrigation systems); (b) efforts to improve
efficiency levels in farm operations and management; (c) the formulation and
implementation of local and national research and development agenda; and (d)
capacity building (training) on climate change adaptation.
In every intervention that it will fully fund or cost-share, the DA will require that a
sustainability plan be in place.
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Outputs
In 2011-2017, the following will be outputs of the HVCDP:
1. Infrastructure Support
a. Other Infrastructure and Postharvest Development. The program will follow
up and make representations with concerned government agencies so that
priority would be given to infrastructure projects that are supportive of
productivity and production gains in the sub-sector. Private sector investments
in postharvest, processing, bulk-handling, and cold chain facilities will be
encouraged through a sound policy environment supported by technical and
financial packages and other appropriate incentives. The major requirement in
the provision of all the postharvest/processing equipment and
household/village level processing plants will be the availability of the
appropriate volume of raw materials.
b. Irrigation Development Services. Irrigation facilities for high value crops will
be designed, tested, and used for specific crops, in coordination with the
BSWM and the Regional Agricultural Engineering Division. These facilities
will be made available to farmers under a cost-sharing scheme under which the
recipients assume responsibility for the construction/installation costs.
2. Research and Development and Extension
a. Research and Development. There is a need for a medium and long term plan
for research and development to, among other purposes, determine the demand
for traditional and emerging high-value crops in the country, develop the
technologies needed to be adopted to fill this demand, and the most costefficient and effective ways to market them. The technologies to be developed
should cover the whole value chain, from pre-production to production,
postharvest handling and processing, to marketing. The acquisition and
development of such technologies will be the focus of the R&D activities of the
DA under the HVCDP.
b. Training, Extension and Communication Support. Appropriate technology
packages will be disseminated through the quad media, namely, print, radio,
television and internet, as well as through the conduct of on-site training and
seminars. Technology demonstrations will also be conducted through selected
farmers associations. Farmers associations with marketing arrangements or
contracts will be provided with technical and financial assistance to enable
them to meet their contractual obligations.
c. Agribusiness and Market Development Services. These services aims to: (1)
develop financing and technology packages that are market-led; (2) ensure that
Philippine products meet standards of the local and world markets; (3) provide
investors with updated and appropriate market, technology, and financing
information to enable them to make sound investment decisions; and (4)
promote Philippine products in an aggressive and innovative manner and on a
sustained basis, both in the domestic and export markets.
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3. Development and Enforcement of Regulations

For fresh products, the BPI will research on and identify the quarantine regulations
of export markets and work towards establishing protocols and assisting private
sector groups gain entry into target markets. It will also design transparent and
efficient systems and procedures to ensure the integrity and credibility of the
countrys phytosanitary certification system and to facilitate import/export trade.
This may require the strengthening of institutional capacity and linkages,
upgrading of government facilities, and conducting pro-active training and value
reorientation for national and local staff involved in quarantine and quality
management services.
The BPI will also provide technical assistance to the quarantine inspectors in the
form of technical advice and training on quarantine protocols and how these must
be conducted. The BPI will also conduct pests and diseases monitoring and
surveillance in close coordination with the Regional Crop Protection Centers.
The BAFPs, meanwhile, will prepare a plan aimed at facilitating the acceptance of
fresh and processed foods in target markets. It will spearhead the formulation or
upgrading of quality standards for Philippine products. The private sector will also
be provided with food testing services and technical assistance to make local food
products safe and competitive in the domestic and export markets. The assistance
to the private sector will be under various cost-sharing schemes.
4. Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Plans and
Policies
The Program will regularly monitor the programs and projects being implemented,
and implement appropriate remedial measures to address deficiencies and
inefficiencies when warranted.
5. Interim Measures: Production Support Services
Production support services for high value crops involve the production,
procurement and distribution of planting materials/seeds. These materials will be
accessed through: (1) production of planting materials in DA stations/BPI centers;
(2) procurement from private sector suppliers through competitive tender; (3)
execution of MOA with partner implementors; and (4) combination of the three
options. These also mean the distribution of farm equipment (sprayers, tractors,
small farm equipment); support to farm production (draft animals, small farm
implements); establishment/rehabilitation and maintenance of production facilities;
establishment/ rehabilitation of biocontrol agent plants; and distribution of soil
analysis instruments, especially soil borne detection and multi meters, which will
be provided with corresponding trainings on their use. The biocontrol agent plants
that will be established/rehabilitated should produce either compost or foliar
fertilizers.
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Inputs
The budgetary requirement for the implementation of the HVCDP totals PhP 9.6 billion
over the plan period with about PhP 3.6 billion required from 2011 to 2013 (Table 20).
Table 18. Inputs for High Value Commodities Development Program
HVCCDP
SSIPs
Other Infra
Research and
Development
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Production Support
Climate Change
Total
2011
138,819
94,150
2012
74,516
81,239
2013
59,932
78,427
59,700
117,056
134,405
97,290
166,604
14,500
30,522
26,100
41,370
2,115
433,351
0
937,917
Budget (P000)
2014
77,716
343,324
2015
109,515
357,162
2016
117,349
365,677
2017
120,461
306,159
212,990
217,219
218,488
178,657
147,840
178,251
190,731
235,443
256,902
42,540
39,373
76,561
98,520
101,860
83,057
38,320
40,200
94,791
2,635
613,907
37,888
1,309,696
32,342
33,560
102,143
210
673,953
55,416
1,357,601
14,572
14,021
90,868
695
300,016
72,572
1,381,586
31,153
16,560
95,424
960
312,782
78,440
1,508,466
46,554
17,365
101,217
1,210
330,239
81,338
1,616,740
50,040
19,635
106,627
2,230
306,392
51,450
1,481,610
6.3.2 The Coconut Development Program

Objectives and Strategies
Objectives and Targets
The following are the objectives of the Coconut Development Plan over the period 20112017:
1. Improve farm productivity and, consequently, farmers income from PhP
20,000/ha/year to at least PhP 30,000/ha/yr;
2. Increase the total national production from 2.96 Mmt to at least 3.37 Mmt to
ensure supply reliability;
3. Train 600,000 coconut farmers/farm workers on coconut production and
processing, and on enterprise development and marketing while strengthening the
existing 1,200 coconut farmers organizations and cooperatives;
4. Conduct advanced R&D studies on the agricultural, health & wellness, and
industrial uses of coconut and its by-products; on quality-improving technologies;
as well as on markets for existing and emerging products; and
5. Strictly enforce all laws and Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) as part of
its regulatory services and cause the approval and adoption of policies when
warranted.
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Major Strategies
To achieve the above objectives and targets, the following strategies will be implemented:
1. Production Services
a. Acceleration of coconut planting/replanting;
b. Rehabilitation of coconut lands by salt fertilization;
c. Promotion of farm diversification through intercropping with high value
commercial crops; and
d. Establishment and maintenance of coconut seed gardens and nurseries.
2. Research and Development & Extension
a. Conduct of research on enhancing farm production/productivity, improving
crop protection, product diversification, and other alternative uses of coconuts
and its by-products;
b. Identification of potential areas for high value cash crops for intercropping with
other crops, e.g., corn, cassava, and banana, for increased farm productivity
and income;
c. Harnessing of the entrepreneurial skills of coconut farming families to generate
additional jobs and uplift their living conditions; and
d. Showcasing of the application of viable processing technologies for high value
coconut products, e.g., virgin coconut oil, coir, coco methyl ester, and coco sap
sugar, at the farm level where farmers/farm workers and other interested
entrepreneurs could undergo hands-on training.
3. Market Development Services
a. Focusing of efforts on market research and promotions of other high-value
coconut products;
b. Attracting of investors into the coconut sector and the creation/expansion of
markets for existing/emerging coconut products/ by- products; and
c. Updating of an accurate marketing data and trade information system.
4. Post-harvest Infrastructure
Provision of appropriate copra dryers in selected coconut areas to improve the
quality of copra/copra meal produced for both domestic and international markets.
5. Extension, Education and Training
a. Conduct of farmers training on improved coconut production and advance
processing of coconut food and non-food products and by-products; and
b. Provision of extension services.
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6. Regulatory Services
a. Strict implementation of industry regulations as defined by the Coconut
Preservation Act of 1995 (R.A. 8048) and other laws on trade promotions and
crop protection;
b. Adherence to established product quality standards and existing Philippine
National Standards (PNS) for coconut products/ by-products; and
c. Upgrading of both the Plant and Soil as well as the Product Quality Control
Laboratory facilities and equipment thereby maintaining the state-of-the-art
level of services.
7. Policy, Planning and Information
a. Sustaining of the provisions of the Coconut Industry Development Road Map
through legislative work;
b. Development of an updated and complete list of coconut farmers nationwide;
c. Gathering of complete, updated statistics on production, hectarage, yield and
number of bearing trees to enhance policy formulation; and
d. Conduct of consultations with all stakeholders, especially the coconut farmers.
Major Programs and Projects

Production Support Services
1. National Coconut Productivity Program. This program aims to accelerate coconut
planting and replanting nationwide by giving monetary incentives to coconut
farmers who have successfully raised, transplanted and stabilized seedlings on the
ground. It has four components, namely, (1) the Coconut Seedlings Dispersal
Project, which seeks to make good quality seedlings readily available to coconut
farmers for planting in their farms; (2) accreditation of coconut seednuts/seedlings
producers, which seeks to sustain the production of good-quality coconut planting
materials; (3) Indigenous Peoples Outreach Program, which is envisioned to
encourage the indigenous peoples to participate in coconut development programs
through planting and replanting; and (4) Hatid Punla which will revitalize existing
PCA nurseries or seed production facilities, together with the establishment of new
nurseries suitable for the propagation of the coconut seeds.
2. Coconut Fertilization Project. This initiative is aimed at increasing coconut
production by applying fertilizer in nutrient-deficient coconut areas using common
salt, which has been proven to improve the yield of coconut by as much as 25%
during the first year of application and up to 50% to 100% on the second and third
years of continuous use, respectively. It also promotes organic fertilization using a
combination of common salt, chicken manure and coir dust.
3. Sustainable Livelihood Project Kasaganaan sa Niyugan ay Kaunlaran ng
Bayan (KAANIB). This project seeks to promote the Coconut-based Farming
System (CBFS) which is a viable business venture among coconut farmers, thus
transforming them into agribusiness entrepreneurs. The CBFS encourages coconut
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farmers to incorporate into their farming various livelihood projects such as

intercropping, livestock raising, and processing/marketing of high-value coconut.
4. Maintenance/Upgrading of Seedfarms/Seedgardens. This project will ensure that
the five PCA-operated seedgardens/seedfarms will be maintained/upgraded to
become sufficient sources of good-quality planting materials.
The PCAs R & D activities are focused on: (a) varietal improvement; (b) crop agronomy,
nutrition, and farming systems, not only to increase yield and income through proper
agronomic and soil management, but also to provide tools to forecast production and
supply of coconuts; (c) integrated crop protection; (d) alternative uses of coconut oil (e.g.,
as material for coco-biodiesel); (e) control/eradication of cadang-cadang and brontispa; (f)
oil palm development monitoring and provision of technical assistance to oil palm
growers; and (g) techno-demo trials (farm-level).
Market Development
The efforts of the PCA to maintain and increase the shares of Philippine coconut products
in traditional markets and to develop new markets for them consists mainly of: (a)
investment/trade promotion activities such as the conduct of trade fairs/exhibits, missions,
market matching, and industry dialogues; (b) development of production clustering among
micro and small-scale entrepreneurs to facilitate technology transfer on production and
product safety; (c) conduct of market research on vital information such as the demand
and supply of coconut products and its competitors; and (d) linking and networking with
consumer groups and institutional markets to promote increased use of coconut
products/by-products.
Extension, Education and Training
Training to increase the knowledge and skills of farmers on coconut production and
processing technologies, as well as those of the members of the coconut farming family on
on- and off-farm income-generating activities constitute the bulk of the extension services
provided by the PCA. Also to be undertaken are farmers meetings, farm visits, technodemos, and information dissemination.
Regulatory Services
The PCA undertakes various regulatory interventions geared toward the control and
eradication of the brontispa and cadang-cadang infestation. It also focuses on the strict
implementation of both the Coconut Preservation Act of 1995 to abate the indiscriminate
cutting of coconut trees, and the Food Fortification Act of 2000 which requires that,
among other provisions, cooking oil (RBD) for domestic human consumption be fortified
with the required minimum level of Vitamin A. It also implements regulations on the
registration of traders/dealers, manufacturers, and exporters of coconut products and byproducts.
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Planning and Policy

To enhance its planning and policy making capabilities, the PCA has developed the
Coconut Farmers Registry System which, once finished, will be a complete the listing
coconut farmers nationwide, as well as the compilation of other vital information on each
of them, including farm location/address, coconut farm data, membership in organization,
tenurial status, land classification, and farm enterprises. It also undertakes the Coconut
Production Survey, in collaboration with the BAS, to come up with a scientific
methodology of establishing relevant coconut statistics.
Finally, it involves coconut farmers and other coconut industry stakeholders, mainly through
Local Coconut Industry Development Councils, in its policy and plan formulation and
program, project, and activity implementation and monitoring and evaluation activities.
Outputs by Function
Production Support
The PCA will encourage coconut planting and replanting in a total of 1,037,725 has in
2011-2017. This effort will lead to an additional production of 848,020 mt of nuts.
Meanwhile, its Coconut Fertilization Project will cover 1,864,191 has during the same
period, resulting in an additional production of 2,599,677.4 mt in copra terms.
In 2011, 10 KAANIB Project sites will be established. Coverage will increase to 72 the
next year and then to 100 in 2013. The number of sites in 2014-2017 will depend on the
results of assessments on the climatological and topographical suitability, as well as the
potential socio-economic, market, and environmental impact of potential sites.
Post-harvest Infrastructure Support
To maintain the countrys position as a stable and reliable supplier of export quality
coconut products and by-products in the world market, the PCA will implement the Copra
Quality Improvement Program to improve the quality of copra, copra meals, and copra
cakes to meet product standards in the European market. Under this program, it will
provide a total of 650 copra dryers to coconut farmers and cooperatives by 2017. It will
also conduct training for coconut farmers on GAP.
Research and Development, and Extension
For the duration of the plan period, the PCA will continue focusing its efforts at
controlling and ultimately eradicating the coconut leaf beetle, Brontispa longissima
(Gestro) which, since its introduction into our country in 2005, has now spread to 586
municipalities in 75 provinces, and the Cadang-cadang infestation. Despite this focus, the
agency will also allocate ample fund and human resources to the control of endemic pests
which, because of the destruction of natural enemies and favorable climatic conditions
brought about by the effects of climate change, have had population outbursts which have
had deleterious effects on yields and the coconut trees themselves.
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To boost these disease control efforts, the PCA will establish and operate in each region a
fully-equipped analytical laboratory whose main functions would be to identify insect
pests of coconut or coconut by-products as well as the presence of molds in copra and
other stored coconut products; to determine the moisture content of copra; to collect,
process and preserve new specimens; and to study new pests and contaminants. The PCA
will also establish and operate a Main Laboratory at its Head Offices which will have the
capability to determine the presence and levels of aflatoxin. All staff members of these
laboratories will be given the appropriate training.
The PCA will also focus research on improving the production/manufacturing processes of
high value coconut products, such as virgin coconut oil and coco sap sugar.
All information, data and technologies resulting from its R&D efforts will be disseminated
to the appropriate audiences in the manner and form required.
Policy and Planning
To bolster its policy formulation and planning capabilities, the PCA will continue efforts
to complete its Coconut Farmers Registry System and to improve the collection and
analysis of relevant data, in cooperation with the BAS. It shall ensure the full and relevant
participation of all stakeholders, especially the small coconut farmers, in all its policy
formulation and planning activities.
Climate change response
The PCA will, during the plan period, implement programs and projects that will
contribute to the coconut industrys adaptation to climate change.
Inputs
The PCA will require about PhP 9.4 billion for the plan period. Of this, about PhP
3.1billion is programmed for the period from 2011 to 2013.
Table 19. Inputs for the Coconut Program
Coconut
Infrastructure and Equipment
Support
R and D
Extension
Market Development
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Transitory
Total
2011
2012
2013
44,200
96,804
206,737
8,622
16,000
5,000
177,000
554,363
17,000
58,374
175,649
12,100
13,100
22,200
838,498
1,136,921
47,300
206,840
174,300
12,556
16,000
163,500
829,500
1,449,996
Budget (P000)
2014
60,300
186,840
212,955
12,556
68,095
48,500
1,004,267
1,593,513
2015
2016
2017
60,300
186,840
206,019
12,556
30,409
13,500
1,032,401
1,542,025
60,300
186,840
206,279
12,556
23,909
13,500
1,035,037
1,538,421
60,300
186,840
206,279
12,556
23,909
13,500
1,035,007
1,538,391
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6.4 Livestock and Poultry

The livestock and poultry industry, with production value of P371 billion in 2011,
accounts for more than a fourth of the value of total agricultural production. Of this, hog
production contributes almost half while chicken production brings in almost a third. The
industry grew by 2.68% from 2010to 2011.
2011 LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY INDUSTRY Performance

AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION = P 1.40 Trillion at current prices (11.52% growth)
Billion P
26.6%
57.4%
16.0%
804.01
19.45
Fisheries
225.14
1.85
Livestock & Poultry
371.71
2.68
Livestock & Poultry accounts for 26.53% share

in terms of current value of agricultural production.
% Share to Total Agriculture
Livestock & Poultry Production

Commodity
000 MT
9.3%
147.52
256.26
1,940.35
-0.34
1.79
2.22
Goat
Dairy
Chicken
78.20
16.45
1,414.30
-0.32
3.72
4.52
33.15
403.44
37.54
0.52
4.16
2.34
0.8% 2.8%
5.7%
0.7%
%Growth
Carabao
Cattle
Hog
Duck
Chicken Egg
Duck Egg
% Growth
Agricultural Crops
47.5%
31.1%
2.0%
0.1%
Source : BAS
% Share to Total L&P

Value at Current Prices
Figure 3. Livestock and Poultry Industry Performance (2011)

The DA-Livestock Program will help ensure food security, alleviate poverty, enhance
incomes and profitability and achieve global competitiveness for the livestock and poultry
sub-sector. It will seek to:
1. Enable the livestock and poultry sub-sector to contribute to the development of
agribusiness lands (pasture establishment) and the reduction of the costs of wage
goods through productivity enhancement, more efficient logistics, and improved
retailing linkages;
2. Increase livestock and poultry production and improve livestock and poultry
productivity to help ensure the availability, accessibility, and affordability of
livestock and poultry products;
3. Increase the incomes of livestock and poultry farmers by providing access to
technology, resources, support services, and infrastructure;
4. Ensure the compatibility of practices in livestock and poultry enterprises with
environmental standards;
5. Transform the livestock industry from a resource-based to a technology-based one;
6. Enhance the global competitiveness of domestic poultry and livestock enterprises; and
7. Provide a policy environment conducive to the continuing growth and
development of the livestock and poultry industries.
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6.4.2 Priorities
The Program has seven (7) priorities, to wit:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Genetic Improvement
Disease Prevention, Control and Eradication
Research, Extension Support and Training
Post-Harvest and Infrastructure Development
Market Development Assistance and Export Initiatives
Dairy Development and Expansion
Meat Safety and Quality
The various activities of the programs will be implemented by BAI, Livestock

Development Council, NDA, NMIS, PCC, DA RFUs, and LGUs.

Infrastructure Support
The DA will provide infrastructure to reduce losses in, add value to, and ensure safety and
quality of, livestock and poultry products. Post production logistics -- from farm through
transport and the cold chain to the markets -- shall be assessed and improved. Existing
post harvest facilities will be upgraded. Assistance will be provided to facilitate the
establishment of standardized market systems and to ensure the use of sanitary processing
and marketing facilities for livestock and poultry products.
The Meat Establishment Improvement Program, being implemented by DA-NMIS, seeks
to set up and/ or upgrade abattoirs and dressing plants in strategically located areas of the
country. It seeks to establish Double A and Triple A abattoirs for inter-provincial and
possibly international trade. Part of the Program is the setting up of Halal slaughterhouses
(SH) and dressing plants (DP) to cater to the needs of Muslim populations here and abroad.
Deliverables for 2012 include two Triple A slaughterhouses, one in Bulacan to serve
North Luzon and the other in Batangas for South Luzon. The total budget for the
establishment of these facilities is P 180 million. A duck slaughterhouse and packing
system would also be established in BAI Animal Products and Development Center in
Marulas, Valenzuela.
Five city/ municipal slaughterhouses will be constructed or upgraded in 2012.
For Construction:
o Basco Municipal SH, Batanes
o Isulan Municipal SH, Sultan Kudarat
For Upgrading:
o Iloilo City SH, Iloilo
o Polilio Municipal SH, Quezon
o Padada Municipal SH, Davao del Sur
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In 2013, the following are the targets of the Meat Establishment Improvement Program:
Triple A SH, Mindanao area

Triple A Poultry DP, Luzon area
Portable Duck DPs
(5 areas at P 2.0 million each)
Ibajay Municipal SH (Iloilo)
Barotac Municipal SH (Aklan)
Halal SH, Mindanao area
P 70.0 million
P 50.0 million
P 10.0 million
P 20.0 million
P 10.0 million
P 20.0 million
It has been observed recently that government stock farms are already in need of
rehabilitation and upgrading and the breeder animals in them need replacement,
upgrading, and/or supplementation. Thus, the rehabilitation of the National Swine and
Poultry Research and Development Center and the National Artificial Breeding Center
will be started in 2012. Five (5) other stock farms will be improved starting 2013, namely:
Nueva Ecija Stock Farm,

ASEAN Goat and Sheep Center,
Busuanga Breeding Experimental Station,
Milagros Livestock Production Center, and
Dumarao Livestock Production Center.
Under the Unified Artificial Insemination Program, the Livestock Program will support
the construction of Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) plants in strategic locations of the country. In
2012, four LN2 plants will be constructed, one each in Tuguegarao, Camarines Sur,
Tacloban, and General Santos. Each LN2 plant costs around PhP 5 million.
In order to sustain the high growth in egg production, the DA and the Batangas Egg
Producers Cooperative signed a Memorandum of Agreement for the setting up a PhP 70
million liquid egg processing plant in San Jose, Batangas. The plant is expected to make
available affordable and quality processed egg which will substitute for imports, thus
saving foreign currency reserves and making more revenues available to local egg
producers. The DA will contribute PhP 60 million to the project while the cooperatives
counterpart is PhP 10.18 million.
Another infrastructure support project is the establishment of livestock auction markets,
which are places where farmers bring their livestock to sell under more systematic
procedures. A weighing scale is provided and used in these facilities, prevailing prices per
kilogram live weight are posted, and government personnel register transactions. These
procedures correct the practice of pricing livestock based on ocular inspection alone and
thus prevent livestock owners from being shortchanged. LGUs run these facilities while the
BAI provide technical assistance in terms of the design and operations and, in certain cases,
provide the weighing scales needed in these stations. There are more than 100 such markets
all over the country that the DA will continue to monitor/assist during the plan period.
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Another major concern under the Program is the promotion of GMP and HACCP in the
different meat and poultry processing plants, as well as the continuation of the monitoring
of meat plants for compliance with health standards and administrative rules. The NMIS
also manages a Central and regional meat laboratories which undertake analyses of meat
and meat products to ensure their being safe for human consumption and of being of the
required quality.
Meanwhile, the NDA has established a network of milk collection, processing and
marketing facilities in different dairy zones nationwide. It will continue to do this in
collaboration with LGUs and dairy cooperatives.
Waste disposal is a perennial problem in livestock enterprises. For waste in pig farms, the
installation of biogas digesters is recommended. There are at present more than 100 biogas
digesters installed in selected cooperator farms. More units of biogas digester are
proposed to be established from 2013 -2017 in various areas of the country.
There will always be need for new information to respond to current and emerging issues,
hence the need for research. The DA-Livestock Program supports specific researches done
by livestock agencies and regional field units. The PCC is particularly strong in the
conduct of research both basic and applied -- on the Philippine carabaos and its crosses.
The Livestock Development Council concerns itself with policy studies and program and
projects evaluation. The BAI does studies on animal health; the NMIS is engaged in meat
studies, and the NDA focuses on milk-related research. RFUs are particularly concerned
with performance evaluation of stocks and forages in different agro-climatic zones taking
into account the effects of climate change. These R&D activities by the different DA
agencies engaged in the livestock subsector will be intensified during the plan period.
Linkages with the academe and consultancy groups are also instituted to address specific
problems. Research coverage spans technical and socio-economic aspects of production,
processing and marketing. It covers as well policy and program assessment and formulation.
The same engagement with the academe will persist under AFMP 2011-2017.
Extension Support, Education and Training
During the plan period, livestock farmers, livestock farmer groups, cooperatives, and LGU
technicians and personnel will be trained on all aspects of livestock and poultry
production, post-production, and management. Training facilities will be upgraded and
modernized. Support will be provided in the conduct of seminars, workshops, relevant
dialogues and consultations, and in the establishment of techno-demo farms and livestock
model farms which showcase different livestock and poultry technologies that are
economical, effective and practical in a given agro-economic setting.
An applied communication program is in-place and will be maintained during the plan
period. This program extensively uses print, audio and visual media to promote
technologies, informs and generates support from the public, and advocates positions on
issues and concerns relevant to the livestock sector. At the national office, the AFIS is a
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critical partner in this component. At the RFUs, the Agriculture and Fisheries Information
Division assumes the same role.
Additionally, specific information campaigns have been drawn to support specific
programs. Such programs include Avian Influenza Protection Program, the Animal
Welfare Act, Quarantine, El Nino Mitigation and the like. These campaigns were
undertaken in cooperation with other agencies like the Philippine Information Agency,
AFIS, NNC and private sector groups. The same and similar programs will be
implemented during the plan period, if warranted.
The organization of integrated farmers groups is also a major activity. The NDA and PCC
are quite strong in this area, having successfully organized dairy cooperatives engaged in
integrated production, collection, processing and marketing of milk and milk products.
Both agencies will continue with these activities.
Human Resource Development
This component seeks to upgrade and maintain a high degree of expertise and technical
skills among the individuals and institutions involved in the program. The targets are the
concerned planners, researchers, evaluators, and implementers. These individuals will be
given easier access to diploma courses and short and long-term special training on all
aspects of the livestock and poultry enterprise.
Production Support
Genetic improvement and the implementation of an Animal Health Program are the major
strategies under this component. These shall continue to be so under the AFMP.
The Genetic Improvement Program aims to improve the production and reproduction
potentials of the local herd through the introduction of superior quality genetics. This
involves the establishment and maintenance of cattle, buffalo and small ruminant nucleus
and multiplier and production centers nationwide. These centers are expected to produce
geneticallysuperior animals or improved and better-performing crosses and grades for
distribution to LGUs, farmers groups, and other stakeholders through various schemes.
One distribution scheme is the Male Breeder Loan Program where superior quality bulls,
carabulls, bucks, and rams are loaned out to farmers to use to improve the genetic base of
their respective herds. Moreover, as the local herds are upgraded and crossed with exotic
germplasms, gene pools to conserve indigenous bloodlines will be developed and
maintained. A gene pool for native carabaos is being maintained by the PCC.
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The program also involves the nationwide implementation of the Unified Artificial
Insemination Program (UNAIP) where the efforts to upgrade cattle, carabao and goat for
meat and dairy are integrated under one program. To address the shortage of quality stock in
the dairy sector, the NDA enters into contract breeding arrangements with selected ranchers
and cooperators under which the local herds are bred with dairy type semen. The resulting
dairy-type offspring are then purchased by the NDA for distribution in the dairy zones.
Finally, the Breeder Stock Accreditation Program is being implemented in pursuit of the
goal of genetic improvement. Under this program, swine, cattle and goat farms that
maintain genetically superior stock of certified genetics are accredited and publicized as
genuine sources of breeder stock.
Meanwhile, the Animal Health Program, spearheaded by the BAI, specifically targets the
eradication and control of diseases. It implements strategic vaccination, disease
surveillance through checkpoints and monitoring stations, quarantine and related activities,
and information dissemination. As a result of this program, the country has been declared
free from Food-and-Mouth Disease without vaccination by the Office International des
Epizooties or the World Organization for Animal Health last May 26, 2011. This
declaration paves the way for the "free movement and transport" of swine and livestock
within the country, which will boost the country's effort to improve its livestock herd and
swine population. Negotiations are now also ongoing for the export of pork products with
Singapore and Malaysia. Thus, selected swine farms, abattoirs and meat processing
establishments, initially in Mindanao, are being accredited by the DA.
The same measures are currently being implemented to keep our borders free from
diseases such as BSE (Mad-Cow) and Avian Influenza (Bird flu). Both diseases
threaten livestock and public health and have seriously damaged the industries of many
developing and developed economies. Both have not entered the Philippines. The efforts
are designed to prevent their entry altogether. The other economically important diseases
that are being addressed include Surra, Hemorrhagic septicemia, internal and external
parasites. Additionally, there are new and emerging diseases being addressed such as the
Porcine Respiratory Reproductive Syndrome (PRRS) and Ebola Reston Virus.
To complement the direct efforts at control and eradication is the upgrading of, biological
and feed laboratories to strengthen disease diagnostic capabilities.
All these efforts will be intensified under AFMP 2011-2017.
Providing policy direction and guidance in animal health is the National Advisory
Committee on Disease Control and Emergency, which is composed of government and
private veterinary officials who meet regularly to assess the overall situation in the
livestock and poultry industry. There are also specific task forces for given diseases, such
as the FMD Task Force, Hog Cholera Task Force, and Avian Influenza Task Force.
Market Development
The DA Livestock Program recognizes the importance of markets to ensure the
profitability and sustainability of livestock and poultry operations. Hence, market
development is a central concern of the program. In this respect, the Program works
closely with AMAS at the national level and the Agricultural Marketing Assistance
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Divisions at the regional level to ensure that markets are available for the produce of
livestock farmers.
Database on prices of livestock and poultry commodities are maintained and regularly
reported and discussed with industry through the Price and Volume Watch Task Force led
by the BAI. Similar task forces are to be organized in selected regions nationwide.
Specific projects to link producers with the markets are also undertaken. In 2004-2005, a
Pork-in-a Box project was launched where some hogs from Mindanao and Visayas were
no longer shipped live but instead were slaughtered in the area, cut, frozen and shipped to
Manila markets. This had substantially reduced losses from shrinkage (weight loss) and
mortality, as well as costs of feeds and labor during transport. It had also substantially
reduced the risk of disease transmission. This approach is consistent with the emphasis on
the value chain analysis where all the elements in production, processing, marketing,
transport and handling are assessed for efficiency and economy. Identified weak points in
the chain are correspondingly addressed.
For dairy farmers, the Milk Feeding Program, undertaken by the NDA, Department of
Education, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and many LGUs provide an
assured market for locally-produced milk. These initiatives serve to assist the dairy
farmers need for more access to markets, even as they improve nutrition of pre-school
and school children.
Additionally, market promotions continue to be done through trade fairs, trade missions,
information campaign and exhibits.
In 2011-2017, under the latest AFMP, all these market development undertakings will
continue. Similar ones will be identified and subsequently likewise implemented.
Regulatory Services
For the livestock sector, fulfilling this function involves the registration, licensing and
accreditation, and monitoring of facilities, groups and individuals engaged in the
manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs, feeds, and livestock and poultry products. The
facilities include feeds and drug plants, breeding farms, meat plants, slaughterhouses, and
cold storage plants. The individuals subject to regulation include meat traders, handlers,
shippers, and butchers.
For meat and meat product imports, veterinary quarantine certificates are required. This is
particularly critical in the light of diseases old and emerging in some exporting
countries, which could be transmitted to the Philippines.
All these interventions will be continued during the plan period.
This component complements AFMAs policy on the formulation and enforcement of
product standards in order to ensure product quality, consumer safety and acceptability of
Philippine products not only locally but globally as well.
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Policy and Planning

Policies to support programs and projects must be formulated. In this regard, the DA
Livestock Program, with the Livestock Development Council as lead, shall continuously
review the relevance and effectiveness of current policies with the end-in-view of
formulating more applicable and effective ones. In the review and formulation of these
policies, the inputs of all stakeholders will be considered. Consultations and dialogues
with industry commodity groups, other government agencies and institutions, consumer
associations, and other stakeholders will be continuing activities.
The different programs of the livestock agencies and commodity groups must effectively
be coordinated to ensure that the operations meet standards, that targets are met, that
objectives are realized, and results are maximized, all in a manner that optimizes
efficiencies. This involves continuing monitoring and evaluation, dialogues and
workshops on the status of programs and projects. Hence, even among the different
livestock agencies and the different geographic groups, there are mechanisms for
coordination. Furthermore, there are regular planning and review exercises to be held
involving all implementing units. These efforts will continue.
Theres also advocacy for the program itself and its different components to foster
understanding, promote appreciation and generate support for the program.
Special projects to discuss and harness support for important issues of the livestock
industry, including measures to protect the industry against subsidized imports, will also
be undertaken.The implementing units of the Livestock Program will also continue to
involve themselves in the review and discussions of proposed terms and conditions in
bilateral and multilateral arrangements between the Philippines and other countries in
matters that affect the livestock and poultry subsector.
Information Support
The Information Support Services Component will upgrade and modernize the existing
information network for the Program to more directly respond to the requirements of the
sector. The computer-based system will carry data on industry profile and status, supply,
demand and market information, animal health and genetic information, and other such
needed information. It shall also carry data on programs and their status and performance.
The network will link the DA-Central with various national agencies and their regional
and provincial offices. It is also planned that the livestock information network will have
links to various research institutions and agencies very critical to policy makers, planners
and stakeholders of the livestock sector.
Climate change
The Philippines has a rich diversity of native and indigenous animals that are sturdy,
resilient and impervious to pest and diseases that commonly affects its livestock
population. Given the fact that they are raised in the wild and exposed to the elements and
most often under trying conditions, they still manage to adapt and survive the effects of
climate change. Thus, the Philippine Native Animal Development Program hopes to find
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and document native and indigenous animals, study them, and propagate them through
breeding and selection. Meanwhile, existing gene pools of domesticated food animals will
be strengthened.
Various strategies will be implemented such as the development of research capabilities
among state universities and selected institutions and the establishment and upgrading of a
database network among government agencies and non-government stakeholders,
including foreign institutions. An appropriate program structure will be created to manage
the program. To promote the program, advocacy will be undertaken.
Inputs
Implementing the Program will require the expenditure of some PhP 10.7billion over the
plan period, most of which will go to infrastructure support and transitory functions. Some
P3.5billion is to be used from 2011 to 2013(Table 22).
Table 20. Inputs for Livestock Program
Livestock
Infrastructure
RDE
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Transitory
Total
2011
218,215
111,032
65,007
86,732
115,116
596,152
2012
385,122
157,780
80,843
136,094
434,899
1,194,738
2013
451,742
190,978
130,679
190,849
704,407
1,668,655
Budget (P000)
2014
671,928
193,848
185,323
195,387
475,671
1,722,158
2015
706,574
199,231
197,959
218,614
454,679
1,777,057
2016
636,296
239,381
219,667
237,681
480,333
1,813,359
2017
675,502
251,993
271,378
260,710
499,252
1,958,836
6.5 Fisheries
Fisheries is an important sector of the Philippine economy. A consistent dollar earner
from huge exports of fish and fishery products that are mainly harvested from 2.2 million
square kilometers of highly productive seas, it provides employment and income, directly
to 1,614,368 stakeholders (1,371,676 from municipal fisheries, 16,497 from commercial
fisheries, and 226,195 from aquaculture), and indirectly to those engaged in fish marketing
and distribution, fish processing, operation of ice plants and cold storage facilities and
other ancillary industries such as net making and boat building. It also supplies a major
part of the dietary protein requirement of the population.
The sector accounts for 2.3% and 4.3% of the countrys GDP at current and constant
prices, respectively. This translates to some PhP 170.4 billion at current prices and PhP
61.8 billion at constant prices. The sector also accounts for 15% and 24% of the GVA in
Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry at current and constant prices, respectively, the largest
shares next to agricultural crops.
In 2008, the Philippines ranked 6th among the top fish producing countries in the world
with a total output of 4.97 Mmt of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic plants
(including seaweeds), 3.12% of the world total of 159.1 Mmt. Philippine fisheries
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production grew by 35%, from 3.93 Mmt valued at PhP 138.8 Billion in 2004 to 5.08 Mmt
valued at PhP 215.58 Billion in 2009, an average annual growth rate of 5.8% and an
average yearly incremental earning of PhP 10 billion.
This essential role that the fisheries sector plays in the lives of Filipinos comes at a heavy
price. Fishery resources in the country are depleted because of excessive fishing effort and
open access regimes. Moreover, destructive fishing methods, the conversion of fishery
habitats into other economic uses, and the negative impacts from land-based activities
have also depleted fishery habitats, thus jeopardizing the sustainability of fishery
resources. These factors have led to intensified resource use competition and conflict
among and between fisher groups and other economic sectors.
These problems have been traced to policy and institutional weaknesses. Inconsistent
policies have not promoted an environment conducive for sustainable development. The
capabilities of governance institutions are weak from the national down to the local levels.
Partnerships among government agencies, civil society organizations and private sector
are also weak.
6.5.1 Plan Objectives

The DAs action plan on fisheries in the next five years focuses on protecting and
enhancing fishery and aquatic resources; increasing productivity to enable the sector to
fully contribute to food security, providing livelihood and increasing the incomes of the
fishers; reducing postharvest losses; and improving institutional capacity.

The BFAR will take the lead in the implementation of the Fisheries Development Plan. It
will coordinate with, and assist, LGUs, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management
Councils, and other concerned entities in formulating, implementing, and assessing
programs relating to the management, conservation, development, protection, utilization
and disposition of all fishery and aquatic resources in municipal waters. On programs
relating to all other fisheries and aquatic resources in the country outside of municipal
waters, it will coordinate and cooperate with other national government agencies.
BFAR will, in keeping with its mandates, do the following:
1. Enforce all laws, formulate and enforce all rules and regulations except those for
municipal waters, and settle conflicts on resource use;
2. Recommend measures for the protection/enhancement of the fishery industries;
3. Formulate rules and regulations for the conservation, management, and protection
of the fishery resources;
4. Establish a corps of specialists in collaboration with the Department of National
Defense and the Department of Foreign Affairs for the efficient monitoring,
control, and surveillance of fishing activities within Philippine waters; and
5. Formulate rules and regulations for the conservation and management of straddling
fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.
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Improving the postharvest handling of fishery products

For the period 2011-2017, BFAR will address the problem of postharvest losses in
fisheries. Available literature indicate that 20%-40% of the total fish caught or harvested
annually is actually lost because of poor handling after harvest and inadequate postharvest
facilities, including ice plants and cold storage facilities. PDP 2011-2017 targets a
reduction in postharvest losses of from 25% to 18% by the end of its implementation
period.
Among the postharvest facilities targeted for construction and/or distribution to address
the problem of high postharvest losses are fish and seaweeds drying facilities, warehouses,
cold storage facilities, fish landing/ports, and refrigerated vans.
Harnessing science
Continuing research is essential to the advancement of the sector. The Bureau, through
the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute and the National Centers will
therefore conduct research activities needed at every level of the fisheries value chain,
including production, postharvest- and marketing-; and extension-related research work.
To support the conduct of these research activities, necessary support facilities, such as
tissue culture laboratories, hatcheries, technology stations, and the BFARs research
vessel, M/V DA-BFAR, will be established and/or maintained. M/V DA-BFAR will
continue to conduct hydro-biological surveys, as well as studies to identify new or
alternative fishing grounds within the countrys territorial waters.
Extension activities will include the conduct of training-of-trainers on production and
post-production technologies and on good manufacturing practices (GMP) and HACCP.
Information materials will also be produced and distributed.
Protecting fishery resources
Efficient monitoring, control and surveillance of fishing activities within Philippine waters
is one of the primary enforcement mandates of the Bureau, in collaboration with other
relevant government agencies. Over the plan period, it will intensify its law enforcement
activities, especially to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. It will do so
through the systematic licensing and registration services and the strengthening of the
other frontline services. Law enforcement will also be given priority to deter, if not
eliminate, illegal fishing practices which include dynamite and cyanide fishing. This
regulation will be complemented with the promotion of environment friendly
technologies, both in aquaculture and marine capture.
Enhancing quality and safety
To ensure that the country maintains and increases its share of the world fishery market, the
Bureau will also intensify its surveillance activities in areas of aquatic animal diseases,
monitor the presence of residue, and promote good aquaculture practices, GMP, and
adherence to food quality and safety standards for both domestic and international markets.
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Strengthening governance
The Plan likewise recognizes the need to strengthen monitoring and evaluation in order to
have a more grounded, well-thought out, and well-advised policies and plans that are
responsive to existent situations and needs of the fisheries sector/fishing industry. This
involves, among others, strengthening and improving fisheries data gathering and analysis,
and the overall knowledge management system.
This Plan also provides for the intensification of strategic collaboration with other relevant
government agencies and non-government entities, civil society organizations, fishers
organizations, and other stakeholders here and abroad.
Improving resilience
The fisheries sector has been identified as one of the most vulnerable to impacts of climate
change. Both aquatic resources (and the associated habitats) and the people living in
coastal communities are facing immense threat to extreme weather events, including
stronger typhoons, sea level rise, and other calamities associated with changing climatic
patterns.
The need to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of important fisheries habitats
and the coastal communities to the negative effects of climate change is vital. Thus, the
Plan emphasizes intensifying coastal resource management activities to protect and
rehabilitate coral reefs, sea grass beds, and mangroves. This, together with other
interventions, such as the provision of livelihood to fishers, enhanced law enforcement,
and other regulatory activities are also meant to improve the adaptive capacity of both
resources and communities to impacts of climate change.
Inputs
The fisheries sector will require some PhP 20 billion for the Plan period, the bulk of which
will go to regulatory services and infrastructure support. Some PhP 6.5 billion will be
used from 2011 to 2013 and PhP 13.6 billion from 2014 to 2017 (Table 23).
Table 21. Inputs for Fisheries Program
Fisheries
Infrastructure
RDE
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Transitory Functions
Total
2011
321,967
530,890
213,147
93,849
208,970
1,368,824
2012
405,980
713,166
394,566
141,868
286,311
1,941,891
2013
1,039,070
640,795
1,086,022
159,912
385,584
3,311,383
Budget (P000)
2014
969,673
633,633
1,123,724
180,660
403,645
3,311,335
2015
978,631
672,377
1,160,762
189,236
409,069
3,410,075
2016
937,624
710,896
1,166,432
199,200
346,740
3,360,892
2017
997,201
757,382
1,171,609
210,712
356,919
3,493,824
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CHAPTER 7
What We Shall Do in the Regions
7.1 Cordillera Administrative Region
Table 22.CAR by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Agricultural Area (has)
Population, 2010 census
Poverty Incidence, 2011
Agricultural GVA, 2011 (at 2000 constant prices)
Share of regional Agri-GVA to GRDP
Major Commodities*
Palay
Production
Yield
Corn
Production
Yield
Coffee
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha.)
Semi-Temperate Vegetables a/
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha.)
White Potato
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha.)
a/
Regional Total Average

1,829,368
377,605
1,616,867
17.1%
12.941Billion
10.57%
% Share to National Total

6.1% of national
1.75% of national
1.95% of national
GVA-Agri to GNDP = 11%
459,643
3.80
2.71% of national
218,788
3.90
3.14% of national
5,628
0.84
6.36% of national
219,966
16.47
80% of national
103,135
16.86
86% of national
Includes only the following priorities: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, carrots, snap (baguio) beans, radish
7.1.1 Goals, Objectives and Strategies

Goals
The CAR adopts the national goals, as follows:
a. Food Security, and thus will strive to attain food security in commodities where it
is deficient, and to enhance food security in those in which it is already sufficient,
through local production and/or importation;
b. Poverty Alleviation, Increased Rural Incomes, and Improved Social Equity,
and thus will seek to help all CAR provinces move out from being among the
poorest provinces in the country and improve the quality of life of the Cordillera
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farmers by providing full employment opportunities and by increasing the valueadded of agricultural products in the region;
c. Global Competitiveness, and therefore will seek to become globally competitive in
the vegetables, rootcrops, and fruits in which it has comparable advantage; and
d. Sustainable and Rational Use of Resources, and thus will aim to sustain a
balanced ecology by ensuring the promotion of agricultural activities that are
compatible with the ecosystem.
Objectives and Targets
The following are the specific objectives and targets of the Plan that are to be attained by
year 2017:
a. To increase production and productivity levels of priority commodities, as
reflected in the table below;
Table 23.Productivity Targets, CAR
Commodity
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
459,643
3.61
497,198
4.06
524,998
4.2
572,107
4.48
601,702
4.59
638,057
4.71
629,757
4.71
198,641
4.18
225,672
4.53
239,957
4.74
270,283
5.21
303,443
5.81
343,578
6.20
361,785
6.17
20,147
2.36
21,074
2.41
28,216
2.15
33,175
2.44
41,215
2.43
49,615
2.53
66,317
2.92
95,685
18.24
109,862
18.7
112,608
19.26
115,423
19.93
118,309
20.73
121,267
21.66
124,298
22.74
54,861
18
64,936
18.45
66,560
19
68,224
19.67
69,929
20.46
71,678
21.38
73,470
22.44
35,759
15.52
47,660
15.91
48,851
16.39
50,073
16.96
51,324
17.64
52,607
18.43
53,923
19.35
Rice
Production
Yield
Yellow Corn
Production
Yield
White Corn
Production
Yield
HVCC
White Potato
Production
Yield
Carrot
Production
Yield
Chinese Cabbage
Production
Yield
Production in mt, Yield in mt/ha
b. To increase the level of adoption of technologies and increase the number of

farmers practicing organic agriculture;
c. To expand the markets for commodities where the region has comparative
advantage in;
d. To strengthen the forward and backward linkages of the agriculture sector with the
processing and industry sectors; and
e. To increase the GVA derived from agriculture and fishery sector.
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Development Strategies
a. Acceleration of the installation of irrigation projects by synchronizing and
consolidating efforts and resources of involved agencies and institutions;
b. Establishment of strategically-located post-harvest and processing facilities to be
managed and handled by empowered cooperatives and farmers
associations/organizations;
c. Expediting of the improvement/upgrading/rehabilitation of existing farm-to-market
roads and bridges in all municipalities and the establishment of tramlines in areas
where roads are not environmentally feasible; and
d. Promotion of the mechanization of agricultural activities.
a. Formulation of a comprehensive, unified and integrated R&D program with a
common agenda for efficiency and the optimization of resources;
b. Improvement of linkages and networking among R & D institutions and extension
services providers in order to ensure the adoption of R & D outputs; and
c. Intensification of the delivery of market development services that will address
market inefficiencies and imperfections.
Regulatory
a.
b.
c.
d.
Intensification of bio-safe production and distribution of agricultural commodities;

Development/formulation and implementation of product standards;
Regulation and licensing of agri-products/inputs production and distribution; and
Intensified enforcement of agri-laws and regulations to maintain a disease-free and
pest-free agriculture sector.
Policy, Planning and Legislative Liaison

a. Continuation of the assessment of plans/programs/projects to accelerate
productivity improvements, increase farm enterprises and incomes, and generally
address rural poverty;
b. Conduct of policy development and advocacy activities in coordination with AFCs
and CSOs; and
c. Sustaining of an up-to-date agricultural database and support information network
and system.
Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation
a. Promotion of the adoption, implementation, and development of production
schemes that are appropriate to environmental settings;
b. Enhancement of resiliency through product diversification;
c. Provision of quick-response/emergency support;
d. Intensification of the promotion of organic agriculture; and
e. Institutionalization of DRR/CCA.
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Gender and Development Mainstreaming

Mainstreaming of gender and development concerns in all programs, projects and activities to
promote fair and equal access to goods and services, participation in development endeavours,
and access to the benefits of development.
Speeding up of the implementation of the National Convergence Initiative to strengthen
linkages and optimize resources in maximizing outputs for rural development and poverty
alleviation.
Priority Programs
Rice Program
Under the Rice Program, the primary aim of the region is to maintain rice sufficiency at all
times and to increase the profitability of rice farming by increasing the productivity of
prime rice land identified within the SAFDZs. It will thus shift its focus from providing
production support to both increasing yield and cropping index through irrigation and to
reducing post-harvest wastage through the increased availability of postharvest facilities
and machinery. Seeds buffer stocking and seed banking, however, will still be promoted
as a means to ensure the availability of seeds at all times as necessary and to provide quick
responses during extreme changes in weather and climate. Support to the development of
upland and traditional rice production and marketing will also be provided.
Corn and Cassava Program
The Corn Program in the Cordillera Autonomous Region will be focused on the provinces
of Ifugao, Apayao, Kalinga and Abra, with equal importance being given to both white
and yellow corn. It will assist in increasing corn productivity in identified cluster areas.
The support services that will be provided to the cluster areas include farm machinery,
training, and infrastructure.
Under the Program, cassava will be promoted as an alternative food staple to corn. Its farming
will be promoted in wide production areas within Ifugao, Apayao, Abra and Kalinga.
High Value Crops Program
The provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province are well-suited to semi-temperate
vegetables, fruits, and cutflowers. Full support will be provided to the production and
processing of these vegetables to ensure that the region will remain the top supplier of
these commodities in the country.
The program will also focus resources and effort on ensuring the full development of
coffee, which is the regions top commodity. The other priority commodities under the
HVC development program include white potato, banana, cabbage, crucifers, carrots,
mango, and cutflowers. White potato, carrots and crucifers will be the focus of efforts in
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Benguet, southern Mountain Province, and upland Ifugao. Exotic fruits will be promoted
and developed in selected highland municipalities, while banana and mango production
will be expanded in the low elevation areas. Cutflowers, on the other hand will be
promoted within the, Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan and Tuba area.
Livestock Program
For the next five years, resources for the livestock program will be focused on activities
that will directly upgrade domestic breeds of livestock and increase livestock population in
the region. Henceforth, the goal is to reduce meat product deficiency in the region and
ensure accessibility of meat products by all.
To ensure the continuous application and adaption of productivity-enhancing technologies,
the following will be implemented:
a. Technology promotion through the establishment and maintenance of technology
demonstration projects in livestock centers and stations;
b. Applied Communication Project that uses print and broadcast media to disseminate
recommended production, post-production, processing, and animal health care
technologies as well as to provide timely and adequate livestock information updates;
c. Training programs for the beneficiaries and implementers of the program;
d. Provision of assistance to livestock and R&D stations that shall serve as
demonstration, research and training centers for animal production technologies; and
e. Intensive regulatory activities.
Fisheries
Under the program, which focuses solely on inland fisheries, concentration will be on
aquaculture development that includes fingerling dispersal to CBWs, fingerling
distribution to fishpond owners, stocking of inland bodies of water including irrigation
dams and reservoirs, and promotion of rice-fish cultures. Other equally important activities
that will be intensified during the next five years will be the conservation of fishery
resources, research and development, and improvement/upgrading of fish hatcheries and
fish farms. Research studies will be concentrated on the development and packaging for
researches on loach production and marketing, tilapia and carp production, and postharvest handling. Fishery regulatory services will also be implemented, including the
establishment of fish sanctuaries, the conservation of fishery resources, and the provision
of fish health services. These support services shall be focused on the production of
tilapia, loach, carp, eel and goby.
Organic Agriculture
Organic agriculture will be promoted through the installation of structures and facilities
and the provision of farm machinery and equipment for the establishment of new areas for
organic agriculture and the expansion of existing organic farms. to this end, training for
farmers on the technology will likewise be conducted. Market linking and market
promotion projects and activities will also be undertaken alongside with the assistance to
be given to organic practitioners for their acquisition of certification documents.
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Urban Agriculture
The Urban Agriculture Program will promote agricultural activities in urban areas of the
region as a means of helping ensure food security through backyard gardening. It also
aims to generate employment by promoting the growing of cutflowers, ornamentals and
fruit trees in limited spaces. Agro-tourism will also be promoted through the planting of
fruit trees in parks. Through the program, fruit tree seedlings will be distributed to various
urban residents for planting in open spaces and backyards. Training on cutflower growing
will also be provided as a tool to start and set up a cutflower growing industry.
Upland/Marginal Farming
To uplift the living conditions of farmers in the uplands, support will provided to upland
and marginal farming activities. Side by side with modernizing agriculture in the SAFDz
areas, interventions will be extended to marginal farming areas in the uplands.
Interventions toward this end include credit assistance, rural infrastructure development,
training and extension, formation and strengthening of cooperatives and associations,
distribution of inputs, and massive information campaigns.
The Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP 2)
CHARM 2 is a seven-year project funded by the International Fund for Agriculture
Development (IFAD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It covers a total of 130
barangays within 37 municipalities in the six provinces of the region. It is designed to
alleviate poverty in the program areas by increasing farm family incomes. The project
focuses on rural infrastructure development, community mobilization and resource
management, and provision of agricultural support services to include adaptive research,
agribusiness, and extension services.
7.1.2 Outputs by Function

Infra support
Irrigation
The areas that will be generated from NISs and CISs under this Plan will spread out in all
of the six provinces of the region. In contrast, majority of the service areas to be generated
from SSIPs will be found only in Ifugao (lowlands), Benguet, Mt. Province, and Abra.
Under the NIS/CIS of the National Irrigation Administration, a total of 9,821 hectares of
service area will be for generation from years 2011 to 2013. Another 13,546 hectares in
the region is apportioned for the years 2014 to 2017. Meanwhile, a total of 15,891 hectares
will be for rehabilitation with around 72% of the said service area rehabilitated from
years 2011 to 2013. The remaining service area of more than 4,400 hectares shall be
rehabilitated starting 2014. A total of 49,480 farmers is targeted to benefit from this
support.
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On the implementation of small-scale irrigation projects (SSIPs), a total of 1,915 hectares

will be served from years 2011 to 2013. It is targeted to benefit 2,024 farmers within this
time period. Meanwhile, another 1,479 hectares in the region will be provided with this
intervention from years 2014 to 2017, and will stand to benefit around 1,300 farmers.
Farm-to-market Roads
In 2012 to 2017, a total of 580 kms of FMRs will be rehabilitated in the region. These
roads will be equitably distributed throughout the region to increase the efficiencies of the
value chain/s of traditional/heirloom rice, semi-temperate vegetables, white potato, coffee,
and banana.
Production, Post harvest and Processing Equipment
To support the productive endeavors of farmers and fishers in the region, equipment and
facilities will be made more easily accessible. These will mainly be composed of multipurpose drying pavements, rice mills, threshers, and mechanical dryers. Most of them will
be made accessible as pilot or demonstration items. The larger of these equipment and
facilities will be provided to farmers and fishers organizations which will operate and
manage them. The smaller ones will be provided at cost and on loan to individual farmers
or fishers.
Postharvest facilities and equipment will also be made available under the plan. The
necessary and appropriate type and mix of post harvest facilities shall be set up in strategic
places to enhance agriculture and fishery activities where particular areas have
comparative advantage in. Thus, multi-purpose drying pavements, mini-warehouses and
farm-level grains centers will be established in the provinces of Apayao, Kalinga, Ifugao
and Abra. Cold storage and packing centers for vegetables, cutflowers and fruits will be
established in the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province. A cold storage chain will
also be worked out for perishable commodities for the same provinces.
To support processing of vegetables and fruits, processing plants/centers shall be
established in strategic areas in the region where economic viabilities for such facilities
had been established.
Other Infrastructure
Marketing facilities like trading centers will also be established in strategically located
sites, particularly in existing common commodity collection places. To support the
Benguet Agri-Pinoy Trading Center in La Trinidad, Benguet, satellite trading centers in
Mt. Province and Ifugao will be established.
RDE activities for the region will focus on: (a) appropriate and site-specific productivityenhancing technologies; (b) organic agriculture technologies that will be acceptable to
small farmers; (c) diversification and climate adaptation measures; (d) the modernization
& commercialization of traditional agriculture; (e) market and agribusiness opportunities;
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and (f) other measures/programs of increasing rural/ farmers incomes i.e. off-farm, offseason employment.
To disseminate and promote the outputs of the R&D activities, to the following will be
undertaken: (1) establishment of on-station and on-farm technology demonstration
projects; (2) development and dissemination of appropriate IEC materials; and (3) conduct
of trainings and improvement and upgrading of training facilities.
Meanwhile, marketing development efforts shall be geared toward addressing existing
market inefficiencies. Services will focus on addressing the need to lessen the gaps
between demand and supply, not only in volume but also in quality, price, and product
differentiation.
A marketing information system will also be designed and established to respond to the
needs of farmers and fishers by providing them with timely guides for planning production
and for marketing activities. In like manner, information on investment opportunities,
products, markets and production technologies will be provided to all. The region will
advocate for the establishment of an information network linking together the various
stakeholders, from the municipal to the regional levels and from the regional to the national
levels. This will ensure the availability of up-to-date and relevant information at all times.
Market tie-ups between producers and processors will, moreover, be facilitated through the
conduct of market matching and linking activities and the promotion of contract buying
schemes. To showcase and promote research breakthroughs and high quality products, trade
missions and trade fairs will be conducted. The Program will then closely monitor and
disseminate prices of priority commodities to allow the government, private traders,
producers, and consumers to plan and reckon their decisions and actions on these information.
Regulatory Services
The region will seek to prevent/control and eradicate rabies, foot-and mouth disease, and
avian influenza. It will thus intensify surveillance activities. Quarantine stations and
checkpoints will also be established, maintained and/or upgraded. So would laboratories
such as the Baguio Soils Laboratory, the Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory,
feed laboratories, the Tissue Culture Laboratory, Pesticide Residue Laboratory, Seed
Testing and Certification Laboratory, and Metarizium Laboratory.
Policy and Planning
DA RFU-CAR will ensure that the different banner program, sectoral, and special plans
(e.g., poverty reduction action plans, development plans for the indigenous people, strategic
plans for persons with disabilities, and nutritional improvement plan) are formulated in the
required form, with the required substance, and within the required time frame. For the
banner and sectoral plans, this would mean an annual formulation process. For the other
special plans, it would mean a formulation process being undertaken once in three years.
Contingency plans for unforeseen circumstances will also be prepared as needed.
In all cases, the substantial participation of all stakeholders will be ensured. Dialogues
with the local Agricultural and Fisheries Councils will be undertaken as often as necessary
to discuss various issues. Among the reforms that would be discussed and advocated with
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the councils is the need to customize national guidelines and policies suit the unique needs
of the region, particularly those affecting the vegetable industry.
Finally, regular operational/implementation monitoring will be conducted to ensure that
agriculture and fisheries development programs, projects, and activities in the region are
undertaken or completed according to design/specification during the targeted period/time
at the planned locations with the targeted clients/beneficiary utilizing the allocated budget
efficiently. The results of these efforts will be used as reference in drafting corrective
measures as necessary, and in crafting future plans.
Climate Change Response
During the plan period, seeds of crops of interest to the region will be produced and then
distributedto farmers affected by severe weather conditions. Seeds of traditional rice
varieties, which are more resilient to the effects of climate change, will also be distributed.
So would planting materials for the reforestation of watershed areas. Suitability and
vulnerability maps will likewise be produced and distributed, and a climate information
system will be set up, to improve the capacities of stakeholders to cope with the perils
related to climate change. Training and other capability-building interventions will be
implemented. R&D of adaptive tools, technologies, infrastructure, and practices will also
be undertaken. All these measures, as well as others, will be mainstreamed as regular
programs of the Department.
7.1.3 Inputs
Excluding NFA interventions, the programs, projects, and activities under this RAFMP
will cost a total of PhP 12.13 billion. Majority (79.7%) of this cost will be expended on
infrastructure and equipment support. The rest will go to RDE (8.9%), transitory (6.6%),
policy and planning (3.4%), and regulatory activities (1.3%).
Table 24.Priority Value Chains, CAR
Priority Commodity(ies)
RICE
Hybrid and CS
Other Inbred
Traditional (Heirloom)
COFFEE
Arabica
green beans
roasted
whole
ground
Production Areas
(Municipalities or Provinces)
Market Outlet (Local,

Domestic or Export)
Priority Interventions
Kalinga, Apayao, Abra,

Lowland Ifugao, Lowland Mt.
Province, low lying areas of
Benguet
Rainfed areas of CAR
Rice Terraces in the upland/
highland areas of CAR
Local, Other regions
Irrigation, PHF, Production

Machinery, FMR
Local, Other regions

Local, International (i.e.
USA, Canada)
Irrigation, Post Harvest, RDE

RDE, Irrigation, PH &
Processing Facilities,
Machinery/Equipment, FMR
Areas = above 600+ masl

Benguet
Highland Mt. Prov.
Highland Ifugao
Local
Other regions
International
(i.e. Canada, Japan)
* processors,
coffee shops
and the like
Production Support
Nurseries
RDE
RD studies
Market Devt
Cap. Bldg.
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Robusta
green beans
roasted
whole
ground
VEGETABLES & POTATO
Temperate Vegetables
Crucifers
Snap Beans
Leeks
Carrots
Production Areas
Lowland areas:
Kalinga, Apayao, Abra,
Lowland Ifugao, Lowland Mt.
Province

Domestic or Export)
Local
Other regions
International
(i.e. China)
Benguet,
Highland Mt. Prov.
Highland Ifugao
Local
Other regions
International
(i.e. Japan)
Local markets
Supermarkets
Food Processors
White Potato
Raw
Raw-processed
Dehydrated
Processed food
Processed food
Agri-Infra
Irrigation
PH & Processing Fac.
Machinery & Equipment
Credit Assistance
RDE
RD studies
Market Devt
Cap. Bldg.
Agri-Infra
Irrigation
Post Harvest &
Processing
FMR
Tramlines
Greenhouses
Table 25.Summary of Inputs, CAR

Function
NIS/CIS constructed/restored
SSIPs constructed
FMRs constructed/repaired
Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
Regulatory Services
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Transitional Functions
Production Support
Climate Change
Grand Total
2011
2012
2013
469,343
1,024,392
769,693
Budget (P000)
2014
699,342
2015
2016
2017
541,260
214,067
334,000
59,744
42,257
45,663
47,699
43,887
44,138
44,138
119,910
552,720
376,175
360,120
412,220
483,370
666,350
88,154
359,923
288,565
435,358
311,362
426,714
406,862
6,996
12,615
19,762
40,455
49,175
49,249
39,344
45,253
84,323
78,918
136,126
151,427
148,539
138,662
939
3,939
4,631
8,769
8,640
7,540
9,050
2,838
4,821
5,631
8,380
8,516
8,562
8,470
3,956
8,086
22,218
29,799
35,793
28,075
31,953
11,009
17,991
26,174
66,768
83,135
86,398
87,671
105
375
787
827
939
763
805
1,923
2,176
3,890
4,018
4,107
4,453
4,161
19,407
59,709
99,397
95,426
111,119
104,619
92,206
282
22,545
39,608
41,023
43,607
46,006
30,607
829,859
2,195,872
1,781,112
1,974,110
1,805,187
1,652,493
1,894,279
NFA Interventions are lodged in either RFU 1 or RFU 2
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7.2 Ilocos Region

Table 26.Ilocos Region by the Numbers
Regional Total / Average
Land Area (has)
Population
National
1,284,019
4.28%% of national
270,664
2.80%% of national
4,748,372.00
5.14%% of national
23.3
26.5
1,558,373.00
9.88% of national
3.95
3.62
358,445.00
5.62% of national
4.76
2.55
290,974.95
35.24% of national
13.72
4.36
121,733.00
5.12% of national
90,987.18
3.57% of national
Poverty Incidence (percent)

Major Commodities
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Mango
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Livestock
Production (mt)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)
Source of data: Land Area NSCB, 2006; Agricultural Area BAS, 2002; Population NSO, 2010; Poverty Incidence NSCB, 2009;
Production and Yield BAS, 2010.

Goals
The Ilocos Region AFMP envisions Region 1 as:
a. The top producer of quality rice, contributing at least 10% of the national total;
b. A major producer/supplier of quality corn for food and feeds, with the region
having the highest corn yield in the country;
c. A key producer of affordable, safe and healthy high value crops;
d. A major producer/supplier of safe, high-quality and wholesome meat and meat
products;
e. A major producer of aquaculture products, particularly milkfish; and
f. The top producer and exporter of quality tobacco.
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Objectives
In pursuit of this vision, the Plan has the following objectives that will be achieved by the
end of the plan period:
a. To increase productivity as described in Table 2;
b. To reduce yield losses from 16% to 11%; and
c. To empower farmers to fully participate in, and benefit from, the development
process.
Table 27.Productivity Targets, Ilocos Region
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
1,451,833
1,528,152
1,636,386
1,829,087
1,846,042
1,861,683
1,924,650
4.08
3.93
3.99
4.13
4.14
4.14
4.22
52,753
55,942
55,982
56,074
61,354
62,595
63,861
3.21
3.25
3.05
3.05
3.08
3.15
3.21
335,129
359,551
401,453
416,383
432,968
448,979
465,590
5.51
5.88
5.86
6.08
6.30
6.53
6.78
9,997
10,213
10,356
10,537
10,758
11,027
11,314
Cattle
26,817
28,047
28,316
28,594
28,880
29,174
29,478
Goat
10,441
10,663
11,004
11,379
11,788
12,236
12,726
Swine
75,951
76,917
78,455
80,181
82,186
84,651
87,360
Poultry meat
75,370
82,615
87,241
92,214
97,562
103,416
109,828
Poultry egg
16,462
18,486
19,595
20,810
22,162
23,714
25,421
Mango
12.13
12.37
12.50
12.70
12.80
13.00
13.30
Banana
12.51
12.58
12.62
12.65
12.71
12.80
13.00
Watermelon
20.90
21.30
21.70
22.10
22.69
23.13
23.49
Ampalaya
15.28
16.00
16.08
17.50
18.02
18.90
18.94
Eggplant
17.12
17.20
17.35
17.79
18.25
18.52
19.00
Tomato
22.05
22.30
22.54
22.64
23.00
23.14
23.25
9.90
10.20
10.51
10.84
11.19
11.56
12.01
Okra
14.91
15.07
15.16
15.30
15.53
15.83
16.04
Squash
15.70
15.79
16.10
16.01
16.36
16.74
17.31
Upo
14.89
15.39
15.91
16.48
17.01
17.56
18.23
Patola
17.29
17.58
17.91
18.50
19.00
19.19
19.76
Pepper
8.78
9.18
9.65
9.97
10.39
10.58
10.77
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
White corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Yellow corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Livestock (mt)
Carabao
High value crops (mt/ha)
Stringbeans
Pechay
Cabbage
7.46
7.57
7.65
7.86
8.14
8.31
8.55
19.31
20.09
20.99
21.66
22.76
23.51
24.63
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2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
20.00
20.22
20.86
21.52
22.10
22.72
23.25
Garlic
3.16
3.16
3.18
3.18
3.19
3.20
3.20
Onion
9.44
9.81
10.19
10.61
11.03
11.52
11.98
Ginger
7.58
7.74
7.98
8.03
8.08
8.30
7.88
Sweet potato
11.36
12.00
12.30
13.00
13.73
15.49
16.21
Cassava
12.53
12.85
20.00
30.00
40.00
50.00
50.00
107,562
111,682
116,328
120,679
125,602
130,275
135,460
39,146
39,537
39,537
39,537
39,932
40,332
40,332
3,555
3,555
3,555
3,590
3,590
3,590
3,626
Cauliflower
Fishery (mt)
Aquaculture
Municipal
Commercial
7.2.2 Strategies/Priority Programs

During the plan period, access to irrigation will be facilitated through the
construction/rehabilitation/restoration of NISs, CISs, SSIPs, and alternative irrigation
systems. FMRs will also be constructed and production and post harvest facilities and
processing centers provided for. Market-related infrastructures will also be established.
Efforts will be exerted to promote both the commercialization of mature production and
post-production technologies and the conduct of production, irrigation, post-harvest,
credit, market and extension-related research and development activities. RDE facilities
and networks will also be maintained and upgraded and the appropriate extension methods
will be used to disseminate the required information about technologies, markets, and
other areas of interest to stakeholders. Finally, production support will be provided,
although in progressively diminishing numbers.
Regulatory Services
The regulatory services that the DA will provide during the plan period will consist of the
issuance of regulatory documents, the conduct of inspection and surveillance, and the
maintenance of testing laboratories and quarantine stations.
Policy and Planning
In fulfilling its role of policy formulation and implementation, as well as planning, the DA
will formulate and implement various agriculture and fishery plans; monitor and evaluate
its programs, projects, and activities; and conduct meetings/workshops to allow real
participation in the processes from all stakeholders. One focus of the policy formulation
and implementation activities of the DA in the region is the advocacy for easier access to
credit for farmers and fishers.
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Irrigation
the region is apportioned for the years 2014 to 2017. Meanwhile, a total of 39,500 hectares
will be for rehabilitationwith around 41% of the said service area rehabilitated from
years 2011 to 2013. The remaining service area of more than 23,200 hectares shall be
rehabilitated starting 2014. A total of 85,887 farmers is targeted to benefit from this
support.
intervention from years 2014 to 2017, and will stand to benefit around 5,063 farmers
therein.
A total of 555 kms of FMRs will be constructed and/or rehabilitated in the region during
the plan period. Production areas in the provinces of Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos
Sur, and La Union will be served by these roads, which will increase efficiencies in the
value chain/s for rice, corn, high value crops (i.e., mango, vegetables), livestock, and
poultry by providing easier and cheaper access to inputs and markets.
Farmers and fishers in the region will also be provided easier and less costly access to
production, post-harvest and processing equipment and facilities. The production
equipment and facilities for which access will be facilitated, will consist mainly of
tractors, sprayers, fishing paraphernalia, and seaweed nurseries, while the post-harvest
equipment and facilities will consist mostly of drying and storage facilities The processing
equipment and facilities will mostly be threshers, seed cleaners, reapers, drum seeders.
All equipment and facilities will be made available on a cost-sharing scheme under which
the beneficiary farmer, fisher, or farming or fishing group will assume 15% of the
acquisition cost with the DA shouldering the rest. The majority of these facilities will be
distributed in: 1) rice areas, mostly in Pangasinan and Ilocos Norte; 2) corn cluster areas
and vegetable cluster areas, and 3) in mango production areas.
Infrastructure that will provide better access to markets, other than FMRs, are also going
to be established, maintained, and upgraded, if warranted, during the plan period. This
infrastructure will be trading centers, food terminals, auction markets, and fish markets.
Commodity checkpoints and the Regional Crop Protection Center will likewise be
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maintained to boost regulatory activities. Finally, mariculture parks will be established

and maintained to provide poor fishers fish cages for free and thus provide them the
opportunity for better incomes.
Research and development activities in the region during the plan period will consist
mostly of helping agriculture and fishery scientists and other innovators apply for
intellectual property protection in the form of patents; and the commercialization of
mature, and the R&D of new production, post-production, and extension-related
technologies. They will also consist of the construction, rehabilitation, upgrading and/or
maintenance of R&D facilities, mainly tissue culture laboratories for banana production,
fishery hatcheries, seed laboratories, product-development laboratories and research
facilities.
Appropriate and sufficient extension services will complement R&D in the region. These
services will mostly be trainings; the production and distribution of information, education
and communication materials; and the establishment and maintenance of technology
demonstrations. These services will focus on the dissemination of information on
production and post-production technologies, product standards, GAP. GMP and HACCP,
the industrial uses of tobacco; and e-trading.
Market assistance will likewise be strengthened in the region to complement efforts to
increase efficiencies in the value chains in rice, corn, mango, vegetables, and livestock
(i.e., goat). This assistance will mostly be in the forms of market-related events (i.e., to
showcase and link agri-fishery products and technologies), the forging of market tie-ups,
and the maintenance of information/communication systems. These activities shall target
the markets in Benguet, Baguio City, and Metro Manila for palay, green corn, lowland
vegetables, legumes, fruits, fish, and livestock and poultry meat. Other Asian countries,
the US, selected European countries, and Middle Eastern countries will be the markets for
the regions mango, poultry meat and bangus choice cuts.
A total of more than 4,600 farmers and/or fishers are expected to benefit from these
services.
Regulatory Services
Under the plan, the regions regulatory services will be focused on the prevention/control
and eradication of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza, and certain diseases
among fisheries. Surveillance activities will be undertaken for aquatic animal, plant and
land animal pests and diseases. Residue monitoring and surveillance, and fish kill
monitoring and investigation will also be implemented. Moreover, emphasis will be placed
on the issuance of clearance permits to exported plants and plant by-products such as fluecured tobacco, medicinal plants, cigarettes, and corn seeds, as well as the issuance of
clearances and permits to imported plant and plant by-products such as bulbs, rhizomes
and seeds.
For the livestock industry in the region, strategic vaccination, disease surveillance through
checkpoints and monitoring stations, and quarantine and related activities will be
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undertaken. So would extension activities that include information dissemination. In

support of these activities, quarantine stations and checkpoints will be maintained and
upgraded. The more important of these are the quarantine stations in Carmen, Rosales,
Pangasinan and in Poro Point, San Fernando City, La Union.
For the regions fisheries industry, regulatory activities will focus on promoting
compliance with GAP and HACCP among bangus producers and processors, majority of
whom are in Pangasinan. BFARs testing / analytical laboratories will also be operated
maintained, and upgraded to ensure that fishery products are disease free.
Policy and Planning
The revival of garlic and multiplier onion production, the promotion of sweet tamarind as
the 2nd priority fruit, the provision of support to coffee processing are some of the priority
policy changes that would be advocated by the region during the plan period. The
strengthening of the DA-RFU 1 monitoring team through the continued bolstering of the
DAs partnership with the AFCs is another focus. So is the conduct of regular
consultations with farmer and fisher groups, civil society organizations, and other
stakeholders on the DAs programs and projects.
To increase resiliency of the sector in the region to the effects of climate change, agromet
stations will be established in highly vulnerable areas. Research and development
activities on adaptive tools, technologies and practices will also be undertaken.
7.2.4 Inputs
Implementing this RAFMP, excluding NFA interventions, will cost a total of PhP 29.52
billion. The majority will go to infrastructure and equipment support (87%). The rest of
the requirement will go to transitory functions (5%), RDE (5%), policy and planning (2%)
and regulation (1%). The breakdown by year and sub-function is shown in Table 31.
Table 28.Priority Value Chains, Ilocos Region
Priority
Commodity (ies)
Rice
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte,
La Union, Ilocos Sur
Market Outlet
(Local, Domestic or Export)
Local, Domestic
Organic rice
(NA)
(NA)
Corn

Local, Domestic
Mango

La Union
Pangasinan
Local, Domestic, International
Vegetables
Bangus
Local, Domestic
Local, Domestic, International
Production and productivity improvement,
Farm mechanization, Postharvest
enhancement
Organic Fertilizer Program, trainings,
TOTs, market-matching
Farm mechanization, Postharvest
enhancement
Productivity improvement
Postharvest enhancement
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Onion and garlic
(NA)
Postharvest enhancement
Production Technology
Credit
Infrastructure/Equipments
R & D services
Education/Training Facilities
Sorting/Grading/Packaging
Cold Storage
Processing
Hauling & Transporting
Packaging
Marketing
(NA)
Table 29.Summary of Inputs, Ilocos Region

Budget (P000)
Function
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
1,898,430 1,915,745
2,210,525
3,084,600
Infrastructure
NIS/CIS constructed/restored/
rehabilitated
3,699,033 3,344,682 1,883,658
SSIPs constructed
51,230
65,816
103,621
108,696
111,396
112,596
112,946
210,640
239,220
321,960
594,250
676,740
760,320
840,090
Other Infra
133,113
395,236
332,357
456,148
632,180
653,527
782,542
32,245
63,744
64,481
71,666
53,202
52,346
53,005
Extension
52,317
76,062
75,277
106,189
120,159
135,586
143,320
2,971
4,193
3,340
8,810
9,650
9,500
11,350
RDE
Agribusiness and Market Assistance

NFA Buffer Stocking
439
448
457
467
476
Information Support
5,600
7,518
10,810
16,130
17,217
17,497
17,859
12,652
31,887
32,212
34,717
18,441
18,753
79,728
Regulatory
19,829
Policy and Planning

Policy and Planning
31,253
54,478
66,579
77,779
77,879
Credit Facilitation
12,943
19,257
21,081
28,204
33,887
39,589
45,286
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
60,658
166,731
219,857
248,549
270,441
348,642
317,623
2,100
9,090
9,090
12,007
11,908
11,965
13,928
4,142
5,114
5,260
5,406
3,662,075 3,949,345
4,451,074
5,522,406
Information Support
79,528
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Palay Procurement
Total*
4,307,255 4,478,414 3,144,823
*Excluding NFA buffer stocking and distribution
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7.3 Cagayan Valley

Table 30.Cagayan Valley by the Numbers
Region II
Land Area (has)
Population
Major Commodities
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coffee
Production (mt)
Squash
Production (mt)
Okra
Production (mt)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)

2,687,517
540,812
3,229,163.00
18.80
National
8.96% of national
5.59% of national
3.50% of national
26.50
1,745,722.00
3.45
11.07% of national
3.62
1,263,614.00
3.46
19.82% of national
2.55
368,074.23
15.56
4.04% of national
20.25
1040.42
1.1% of national
45635.84
18.6% of national
5213.82
17.5% of national
219,783.65
0.49% of national
7.3.1 Priority Programs and Major Strategies

Rice Development Program
a. Increasing of area planted through sustained irrigation development and proper
management;
b. Increasing of farm production efficiency/productivity through mechanization and
the use of best seeds;
c. Reduction of production losses through the promotion/introduction of modern
postharvest facilities; and
d. Empowerment of rice farmers and other stakeholders.
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Corn Development Program

a. Increasing of yield for white and yellow corn;
b. Extensive promotion of white corn as a cheaper alternative/supplemental food
staple;
c. Advocacy for corn-based farming systems and other climate change adaptation
measures;
d. Organization and strengthening of more corn clusters; and
e. Continuous provision of subsidy for the procurement of farm machinery and
postharvest and processing facilities.
High Value Crops Development Program
a. Establishment of facilities for the production of quality planting materials and
other production inputs;
b. Establishment of post-harvest and processing facilities; and
c. Undertaking of R&D on priority crops.
Livestock Development Program
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Conservation and improvement of genetic materials;

Prevention, control, and eradication of diseases;
Establishment of postharvest facilities;
Development and promotion of alternative nutrition technologies; and
Pursuit of export opportunities.
Fisheries Development Program

a.
b.
c.
d.
Implementation of marine resource protection and conservation measures;

Operation of mariculture parks, hatcheries and nurseries;
Conduct of R&D activities along the value chain; and
Enhancement of food safety and product quality monitoring and management.

Irrigation
the region is apportioned for the years 2014 to 2017. Meanwhile, a total of 167,164
hectares will be for rehabilitation with around 61% of the said service area rehabilitated
from years 2011 to 2013. The remaining service area of more than 64,388 hectares shall be
rehabilitated starting 2014. These interventions target to benefit a total of 287,349 farmers.
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intervention from years 2014 to 2017, and will stand to benefit around 1,167 farmers
therein.
Farm-to-Market Roads
A total of 1,019 kms of FMRs will be constructed in the region during the plan period.
Areas planted to palay, mostly in Isabela, Cagayan and Nueva Vizcaya, will be served by
these roads.
Production, Postharvest and Processing Equipment
Although it is a devolved function, the DA will continue providing production support
during the plan period, especially to producers of priority commodities like corn,
vegetables (e.g., mongo and soybeans) and fruit & other industrial tree crops (e.g., coffee
and mango), that have yet to be produced in the required volumes and quality.
During the plan period, the production equipment and facilities which will be provided include
crop nurseries, fish hatcheries, mariculture parks, and greenhouses. In rice areas, power tillers,
drum seeders, hand tractors, and four-wheel-drive tractors will be made available.
To make harvesting more efficient in the region, the appropriate equipment and facilities,
mainly threshers, rice combine harvesters, and reapers will be provided, especially to
small farmers. To reduce losses due to handling and transporting to trading areas, and due
to marketing, about 49 trading centers will be established in strategic areas in all
provinces. Drying facilities will likewise be made more accessible, these facilities to
include various kinds of dryers, palay sheds, village-type dryers for corn, cassava dryers,
elevated solar fish dryers, and multi-purposes drying pavements. For tobacco farmers, the
NTA will make available curing barns in Cagayan and Isabela, as well as hermetic
cocoons and warehouses all over the region. The PCC, for its part, will put up new milk
collection centers in Cagayan and Isabela, while maintaining and upgrading its 23 existing
ones. The BFAR will also establish 12 smokehouses annually in the coastal municipalities
of Batanes, Cagayan and Isabela. Meanwhile, the PhilMech will put up 8 cold storage
facilities in vegetable areas while the BFAR will establish 48 hatcheries in Batanes,
Cagayan, and Isabela.
These equipment and facilities will be made available as grants, through soft loans, or
under various forms of counter-parting or cost-sharing schemes with LGUs and/or
farmers organizations.
RDE in the region in 2011-2017 will be focused on the following:
a. For the rice sub-sector, varietal improvement, new inbred and hybrid rice
adaptation, integrated nutrient management, evaluation of growth enhancers,
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management of new pests, more appropriate farming systems, better postharvest

technologies, extension modalities, value-adding, and packaging and labelling;
b. For the corn sub-sector, crop improvement (OPV), new hybrid corn adaptation,
site-specific nutrient management/fertilizer calibrations, pest resistance assessment
and management in genetically-modified organisms, management of new pests,
postharvest/aflatoxin management, processing/product transformation, farming
systems, extension modalities, product development/value-adding, and packaging
and labelling;
c. For the HVCC sub-sector, varietal improvement, seed/seedling system, organic
production, indigenous vegetables, off-season/protected vegetable production,
management of major pests, postharvest handling/packaging, processing/value
adding, extension modalities, product development/ value-adding, and packaging
and labelling; and
d. For the livestock sub-sector, genetic improvement/breeding management, breeder
stock supply systems, forage/pasture development, animal nutrition/feeding
management, health management, disease management, production/extension
modalities, product development/value-adding, and packaging and labelling.
mostly of the conduct of research, upgrading of facilities, and the maintenance of R&Dextension networks.
R&D activities will have higher efficiencies with the establishment of an integrated
agricultural laboratory during the plan period. New tissue culture laboratories, scion
gardens /groves, and greenhouses, among others, will also be established, while existing
ones will be maintained and upgraded if needed. The research outreach stations which
are the RDE arm and provincial extension facility of the DA in the region, will be
improved, some of its facilities upgraded, and buildings built, or repaired/rehabilitated.
R&D outputs will be better disseminated through the conduct of appropriate extension
activities in the required manner. These services will mostly be trainings to be conducted
by and under the supervision of, the ATI. IEC materials will also be produced and
distributed, and techno demo farms will the established and maintained. These activities
will be focused on: production and post-production technologies, irrigation management,
product standards, good aquaculture practices, GAP, GMP and HACCP, and organic
agriculture.
increase efficiencies in the value chains for rice, corn, vegetables and livestock. This
assistance will mostly be in the forms of market-related events, market linkages, and the
maintenance of information/communication system like e-trading and AFMIS. Among
the foci of these marketing activities will be the development of markets in Taiwan for
organic products from Batanes, especially red onion and the export outside of the region of
organic garlic and meat from organically-raised livestock, monggo and coffee beans from
Isabela, and coffee and vegetables from Nueva Ecija. Aside from these marketing
activities, price monitoring and bulletins will likewise be undertaken.
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Regulatory Services
Regulatory services in the region for the duration of the plan will be centered on the
prevention/control and eradication of diseases and pests that are of economic importance,
such as brontispa, pulp weevil, rabies, foot-and-mouth disease, and avian influenza.
Consequently, RFU II will maintain and strengthen its eight (8) quarantine points/stations
to help maintain its being an FMD- and AI-free zone, as well as to maintain a database on
food supply and demand in the region. Farms, feed establishments and veterinary drugs
& agricultural products establishments will also be inspected. Moreover, the accreditation,
licensing, certification, issuance of clearance & permits, and feed analysis will be
conducted as regulatory activities.
Policy and Planning
DA RFU II will ensure that the RAFMP 2011-2017 and the Regional Public Investment
Plan 2011-2016 are implemented and monitored. These plans were crafted through
integration of both bottom-up and top-bottom planning processes, with the LGU
(municipal &provincial) and national priorities being considered. Based on these plans,
annual investment plans or work and financial plans will be crafted and executed. In all
phases of plan formulation and monitoring, all stakeholders will be involved, mainly
through the public/stakeholders consultations conducted by the RAFC.
The DA-Regional Office will be conducting periodic program and project evaluations.
Performance reviews will be conducted every quarter to track the status of all program
implementation at the outcome level, in the process identifying operation issues and being
able to amply address them. A new e-reporting system shall be institutionalized for a
better tracking of reports from the field offices. Finally, the database for planning
purposes will be maintained and updated with assistance from ITCAF, AMAS, AFMIS
and PMED of the DA-Central Office.
Farmers and fishers in the region will be assisted to help them cope with the effects of
climate change. If the Quick Response Fund would be available, seeds and other planting
materials will be distributed after calamities or disasters.
Moreover, Agromet stations will be established for each municipality. The LGUs had
proposed for a computerized Agromet Station in each Municipality. It is imperative to
have one for each because a provincial Agromet station no longer approximates or
represents the rainfall data for the whole province due to climate change. These
computerized stations will be used to establish a databank on, and eventually map out, the
effects of climate change on the region. They will also be used for hazard mapping. Once
these maps are available, they will be included in the LGUs CLUPs.
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7.3.3 Inputs
Implementing this RAFMP will cost a total of PhP 32.8 billion. The lions share of this budget will be
for infrastructure and equipment support (89.9%). The rest of the requirement goes to transitory
functions (2.8%), RDE (4.9%), policy and planning (2.1%) and regulatory (0.13%)
Table 31. Productivity Targets, Cagayan Valley
Function
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking
Total *
Budget (P000)
2013
2014
2011
2012
2015
2016
2017
1,423,749
131,867
290,989
130,571
2,455,148
91,562
286,900
383,564
2,337,271
119,868
332,040
313,996
3,261,306
240,571
831,733
532,969
3,575,451
339,032
913,101
435,477
4,410,421
273,650
1,023,909
471,778
3,483,688
219,576
1,124,910
80,313
16,197
80,530
60,905
110,971
83,889
147,078
24,480
255,392
27,490
274,150
32,795
290,419
995
152,424
2,393
2,694
1,649
3,161
3,071
17,373
15,789
0
1,256
16,663
0
1,550
6,178
3,717
2,800
9,079
4,590
1,850
2,304
4,721
2,100
2,419
4,852
2,140
2,540
0
2,140
2,667
24,836
34,695
0
22,480
43,361
1,250
47,668
47,406
1,240
17,852
63,958
1,240
27,527
76,801
1,240
30,500
89,639
1,272
39,271
102,472
1,240
114,033
0
0
2,267,779
171,625
0
118
3,638,188
296,548
73,566
120
3,814,098
86,177
418
123
5,323,411
85,174
535
125
5,763,568
92,677
809
127
6,739,922
62,808
0
0
5,288,293
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Table 32.Priority Value Chains, Cagayan Valley

Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Priority
Commodity(ies)

Domestic or Export)
Rice
Isabela, Cagayan, Nueva

Vizcaya, Quirino
Region 5, NCR
Irrigation, PH Facilities, FTMR, R & D
Corn
Isabela, Cagayan, Nueva

Vizcaya, Quirino
Regions 3, 4, Metro
Manila
Post Harvest & Processing Facilities, R & D, E
Coffee Beans
Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya
Rocky Mountain,
Nestle
R & D, E, Production Support, PH Facilities,

Processing Equipment, Marketing Assistance
Banana
(Cardaba)
Isabela, Cagayan, Quirino
Metro Manila, Regions

1, 3
R & D, E, Production Support, PH Facilities,

Marketing Assistance
Vegetables
Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela,

Cagayan
Regions 1, 3, Metro
Manila
Cold Chain Facilities/Transport, Tramline, R & D,

E, Production Support, PH Equipment/Facilities
Table 33.Summary of Inputs, Cagayan Valley

Function
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking
Total *
Budget (P000)
2013
2014
2011
2012
2015
2016
2017
1,423,749
131,867
290,989
130,571
0
16,197
80,530
2,455,148
91,562
286,900
383,564
0
60,905
110,971
2,337,271
119,868
332,040
313,996
0
83,889
147,078
3,261,306
240,571
831,733
532,969
0
24,480
255,392
3,575,451
339,032
913,100
435,476
0
27,490
274,149
4,410,421
273,650
1,023,909
471,778
0
32,795
290,419
3,483,688
219,576
1,124,910
80,313
0
995
152,424
2,393
2,694
1,649
3,161
3,071
17,373
15,789
0
1,256
16,663
0
24,836
34,695
0
0
114,033
0
0
2,267,779
0
1,550
6,178
0
22,480
43,361
1,250
0
171,625
0
118
3,638,188
3,717
2,800
9,079
0
47,668
47,406
1,240
0
296,548
73,566
120
3,814,098
4,590
1,850
2,304
0
17,852
63,958
1,240
0
86,177
418
123
5,323,411
4,721
2,100
2,419
0
27,527
76,801
1,240
0
85,174
535
125
5,763,565
4,852
2,140
2,540
0
30,500
89,639
1,272
0
92,677
809
127
6,739,922
0
2,140
2,667
0
39,271
102,472
1,240
0
62,808
0
0
5,288,293
*Excluding NFA palay procurement and buffer stocking
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7.4 Central Luzon

Table 34.Central Luzon by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
2,147,036
National
7.16% of national
552,104
5.71% of national
10,137,737.00
10.98% of national
15.30
26.50
2,958,415.00
18.76% of national
4.34
3.62
840,862.99
4.69% of national
47.20
50.52
289,041.00
15.23% of national
219,783.65
8.63% of national
210,442.31
1.36% of national
8.74
4.34
Major Commodities
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Hog
Production (mt)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
7.4.1 Objectives
The Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Program for Central Luzon has the
following as its objectives:
1. To increase the profits and incomes of small farmers and fishers and thus uplift
their quality of living;
2. To modernize the agriculture sector through the extensive promotion of
appropriate technologies;
3. To ensure the accessibility, availability and stable supply of agricultural products;
4. To strengthen rural-based organizations (RBOs);
5. To improve the quality of the agricultural products produced;
6. To provide the necessary production, postharvest and marketing facilities needed
to improve the productivity of farmers and fishers; and
7. To promote value adding activities among small farmers and fishers.
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7.4.2 Productivity Targets

The region aims to reach peak growth in rice production by 2013 and produce 3,682,451
MT and thereafter achieve slight yearly production increases of 3% in 2013-2017. The
rest of the production targets for the priority commodities are contained in Table 37.
Table 35.Productivity Targets, Central Luzon
Commodity
Rice (mt)
Corn
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
3,442,179
3,581,809
3,682,451
3,877,091
3,932,620
3,972,961
4,095,346
188,494
255,704
265,108
272,426
279,771
293,833
301,641
64,066
65,988
67,967
70,006
72,106
74,269
76,497
HVCC
Mango
Coffee (dried berries)
1,792
1,816
1,840
1,865
1,890
1,916
1,942
Banana
60,366
62,595
64,906
67,303
69,789
72,366
75,038
Onion
83,730
93,641
104,724
117,120
130,983
146,487
163,826
Root Crops
Lowland Vegetables
48,422
48,534
48,647
48,761
48,877
48,995
49,114
153,185
153,914
154,668
155,447
156,252
157,082
157,939
309,655
300,784
306,800
313,550
321,388
331,030
341,623
Livestock
Pork
Chevon
8,549
8,291
8,556
8,847
9,165
9,513
9,894
18,424
18,595
18,773
18,957
19,147
19,342
19,543
6,145
5,647
5,726
5,826
5,949
6,097
6,256
Chicken Meat
474,732
505,387
533,689
564,109
596,827
632,637
671,861
Chicken Eggs
77,111
83,225
88,218
93,688
99,778
106,762
114,449
Duck Meat
12,248
11,741
11,817
11,900
11,989
12,085
12,187
Duck Eggs
11,230
10,870
11,001
11,155
11,333
11,537
11,768
4,379
4,568
4,766
4,972
5,195
5,429
40,965
42,735
44,581
46,507
48,600
50,787
230,773
240,742
251,142
261,992
273,781
286,101
Beef
Carabeef
Poultry
Fisheries
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
Production in mt
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7.4.3 Strategies and Priority Programs

Food Security
Rice Program
Expansion of area planted, the planting of these areas with high yielding varieties,
and the application of location-specific interventions;
Generation, rehabilitation and restoration of irrigated areas;
Provision of postharvest facilities;
Construction and rehabilitation of more farm-to-market roads;
Management of the demand for rice; and
Implementation of NFA reforms.
Corn and Cassava Program
Promotion of OPVs;
Promotion of the use of quality planting materials for cassava as food, feed and
fuel substitutes;
Mechanization of farm operations;
Provision of postharvest facilities; and
Promotion of cost-reducing technologies for yellow corn.
HVCC Program
Promotion of the use of quality seeds and planting materials;

Promotion of the use of other crops, such as sweet potato and saba, as staples; and
Construction of production and postharvest facilities
Livestock Program
Improvement of genetic materials;

Prevention, control and eradication of diseases;
Promotion of the establishment of meat centers and other postharvest facilities for
livestock and poultry; and
Strengthening of the regulatory capabilities of LGUs.
Fisheries Program
Maintenance, operation, and expansion of existing mariculture parks;

Maximization of production in mariculture parks through the promotion of the
polyculture technology;
Establishment of seaweed nurseries;
Provision of training and technical assistance;
Implementation of Coastal Resource Management projects; and
Ensuring of compliance with global food safety and fishing standards.
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Public Investments
a. Prioritization of the rehabilitation, repair/restoration, and maintenance of existing
systems and of the construction of more SWIPs;
b. Provision of more durable market access infrastructure like FMRs, fish ports, and
postharvest facilities and equipment;
c. Prioritization of strategically located market access infrastructure that enable small
producers to capture their just share of profits, while lowering prices for
consumers;
d. Provision of increased support to an integrated RDE in coordination with SUCs
and LGUs;
e. Sharpening of the countrys regulatory competence through staff technical and
legal training, alongside improvements in laboratories and equipment; and
f. Wider promotion of high quality genetic materials.
Climate Change
a. Provision of support to investments in climate-resilient equipment and
infrastructures, with improved design standards and construction protocol; and
b. Provision of investments in technology development and extension.
Enabling Farmers Choice and Diversification
a. Empowerment of farmers / producers through RDE systems which will provide
them with technological information and advice on options, from conventional to
organic protocols, and allowing them to intelligently choose the system of
production that suits them;
b. Promotion of diversification, with emphasis on higher value-addition and adequate
marketing support through trading centers; and
c. Empowerment of farmers to engage in other crops and thus increase income and to
be productive in farming other crops.
The Convergence Initiative
Harmonization of DAs support services at the field level with those of DAR and DENR
to eliminate duplication, thus ensuring better quality of service and wider coverage.
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Irrigation
In 2011-2017, a total of 225,497has of service area from NISs and CISs will be added to
the current irrigated area in Central Luzon. The majority of this area will be located in the
provinces of Bulacan, Tarlac, and Zambales, particularly in areas planted to rice and corn.
A total of 52,431 farmers will benefit from this support. In the meantime, SSIPs will
generate an additional 1,299 has, benefiting 1,956 farmers.
A total of 1,033 kms of FMRs will be constructed in the region during the plan period.
The production equipment and facilities for which access will be facilitated, will consist
mainly of combine harvesters, drum seeders, tractors, hatcheries, and nurseries.
Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be made more available
under the plan will mostly be dryers, granulators, hermetic cocoons, threshers,
warehouses, smokehouses, and mills. All these equipment and facilities will be made
available to farmers of rice, corn, and HVCs throughout the region, either under a counterparting scheme between DA and an LGU, a farmers cooperative, or an IA, or as a grant.
By 2017, all rice, corn, vegetables and fisheries area in the region would have been
provided by these production and postharvest equipment and facilities to help them
increase their production and minimize their postharvest losses.
Research and development activities in the region during the plan period will consist of
studies and researches on new technologies for farming, vegetable production, mushroom
production, and vermi-composting, among others, for possible adoption and application by
farmers. To optimize the efficacy of these researches and studies, Research Outreach
Station (ROS) Lowland in Tarlac, ROS Hillyland in Zambales, ROS Upland in Pampanga,
and the Regional Crop Protection Center will be rehabilitated and upgraded. The outputs
of these R&D activities will be disseminated, mostly through various kinds of trainings
and will be focused on the adoption and application of new technologies on farming.
More and better market assistance services will also be provided in the region to complement
efforts to increase efficiencies in the value chains in rice, corn, and high value crops. Organic
trading centers and barangay and municipal food terminals will be established and maintained
region-wide to benefit farmer-cooperatives, LGU-managed food terminals, food terminal
operators, farmers and fishers.
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Regulatory Services
RFU III will focus on maintaining the regions being free of FMD and avian flu, although
appropriate attention will also be given to the prevention and control of other animal
diseases and plant pests and diseases. Toward this end, checkpoints will be established and
operated, while the operation of existing ones will be continued. The quarantine stations
in the Subic Freeport, Clark Economic Zone, the Ports of Limay and Mariveles in Bataan,
and the Port of Masinloc in Zambales will also be upgraded, and the partnership among
the Department, LGUs, famer and fisher organizations, and other government agencies in
implementing surveillance and control measures will be strengthened. Accreditation,
licensing, certification, inspection, clearance, permitting, and other regulatory activities
will also be enhanced. Soils laboratories will be maintained to serve the soil analysis
needs of farmers. Finally, the Regional Animal Diseases and Diagnostics Laboratory will
be upgraded to serve as a diagnosis lab and testing center for different kinds of animal
diseases.
Policy and Planning
All policy formulation and planning activity in the region will benefit from the
participation of farmers and fishers, LGUs, agricultural entrepreneurs, and other
stakeholders. Stakeholders will also be engaged, in the same degree, in the implementation
and then monitoring and evaluation of all programs, projects, and activities of the
Department in the region.
Transitory Support including Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures
During the plan period, production support services will continue to be provided to
farmers and fishers in the region, but will taper down by the end of 2017. This support
includes seeds, planting materials, fingerlings, fishing tools, biologics, vaccines, livestock,
and poultry, as well as crop insurance.
Researches on climate-resilient varieties of rice will continue, as will other efforts to
mitigate climate change effects on the sector. These other efforts include the designing
and construction of all-climate FMRs and irrigation systems, promotion of organic
agriculture, and the establishment of agromet stations in Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and
Bataan. The capacities of stakeholders in risk assessment and disaster management will
likewise be built up, mainly through the UEGIS project of the Department.
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Table 36.Priority Value Chains, Central Luzon

Production Areas (Municipalities or

Provinces)
Market Outlet
Rice
Nueva Ecija (approx. 90%); Tarlac;

Pampanga; Bataan; Bulacan;
Zambales
Local market ( regionwide, other regions,

NCR)
Production and Post harvest machineries and

equipments / seeds for calamities / FMRs
Corn
Pampanga; Tarlac

NCR)
Production and Post harvest machineries and

equipments / seeds for calamities
Livestock ( Chicken, Pork,

Duck)
Bulacan; Pampanga; Bataan

NCR) possible for export
Cold Storage Facilities / Biologics
HVCC ( Onion, Mango,

Pinakbet Vegetables)
Nueva Ecija; Zambales; Pampanga;

Tarlac

NCR) possible for export
Cold Storage Facilities / Seeds and planting

materials/ fertilizer
Coconut
Aurora
Province wide
Planting materials / Biological control agents
Mushroom ( not a priority

commodity for now, but has a
potential)
DA RFU 3 ROS Tarlac Station/ Some

part Nueva Ecija
Local
Market linkage
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7.4.5 Inputs
billion. The majority will go to infrastructure and equipment support (79.3%). The rest of
the requirement goes to regulation (8.2%), transitory functions (6.0%), RDE (5.0%), and
policy and planning (1.5%).
Table 37. Summary of Inputs, Central Luzon
Budget ('000)
Function
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
223,000
5,061
548,490
204,889
-
1,063,289
85,990
476,570
839,642
10,700
1,314,349
110,750
440,000
901,356
3,410
2,158,453
113,755
1,045,120
1,226,084
37,900
1,727,911
50,313
1,198,520
1,056,493
72,000
1,385,500
55,314
1,327,020
1,065,145
94,910
610,081
115,131
1,435,440
1,108,295
-
25,883
102,831
80,854
126,617
6,995
127,796
70,404
134,654
76,195
147,352
73,306
153,237
76,863
160,535
1,726
1,325
3,092
1,234
1,320
1,390
1,466
626
-
1,570
-
2,245
4,838,972
1,261
5,975,177
1,261
6,145,607
1,260
6,316,038
1,255
-
Regulatory
21,562
26,245
22,090
560,416
599,067
505,798
531,822
Policy and Planning

Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
34,381
340
520
36,089
25,633
520
36,569
27,905
520
13,589
37,628
736
13,669
45,151
736
14,120
52,673
730
14,199
60,196
730
Transitional
Production Support
Climate Change
98,015
4,265
57,875
10,098
449,161
19,384
213,227
21,234
227,378
25,548
236,392
30,302
235,615
31,684
1,246,171
5,838,684
6,474,074
6,674,035
6,833,380
1,271,587
2,832,316
3,462,211
5,597,794
5,170,914
4,902,186
4,383,310
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
NFA Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
NFA Buffer Stocking

Total
*Excluding NFA procurement and buffer stocking
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7.5 CALABARZON
Table 38.CALABARZON by the Numbers
Region IV-A
Land Area (has)
Population
Major Commodities
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Hog
Production (mt)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)

1,622,861
588,516
12,609,803.00
13.90
National
5.41% of national
6.09% of national
13.66% of national
26.50
1,665,806.98
57.17
9.29% of national
50.52
1,394,637.70
3.18
8.99% of national
4.34
390,189.00
3.75
2.47% of national
3.62
276,966.00
14.6% of national
200,910.42
7.89% of national
7.5.1 Objectives and Strategies

Objectives
a. To help the country attain self sufficiency in rice and corn and other high value
crops, as well as in livestock and poultry;
b. To increase farm incomes;
c. To sharpen the competitive edge of farming communities and the private sector;
and
d. To ensure the long-term sustainability of the regions agricultural resource base.
Sectoral Strategies
a. Establishment of communitybased facilities;
b. Promotion of the use of superior inputs such as high quality seeds, planting
materials, and animal breeds;
c. Promotion of the production and consumption of white corn, cassava and other
crops as alternative to rice as staple;
d. Promotion of organic agriculture / natural farming;
e. Construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of production facilities and
laboratories;
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f.
Frontloading of investments in irrigation, other infrastructure, FMR,

postharvest/processing facilities, and in mechanization;
g. Allocation of sufficient resources for research and development;
h. Conduct of capability building /training and trainingrelated events;
i. Conduct of marketing promotion and development;
j. Intensification of IEC campaigns on climate change mitigation and adaptation;
k. Conduct of regulatory services; and
l. Strengthening of linkages with the private sector, LGUs, NGOs, POs, SUCs, other
NGAs and other stakeholders.
7.5.2 Priority Programs

Rice Program
The program aims to increase rice yields and farmers incomes, achieve greater food
sufficiency in the country, and generate additional employment in the agriculture sector.
Its major components are production support services, provision of infrastructure and
postharvest facilities and equipment, and extension support services.
Corn Program
This program seeks to: (a) enhance productivity and profitability and, (b) attain selfsufficiency in yellow corn to address the increasing demand for feeds from the livestock
and poultry sector. It also aims to transform Filipino corn farmers into agribusiness
entrepreneurs. For the CALABARZON region, it will provide OPVs, promote the use of
biological control agents, conduct pest and disease surveillance, provide efficient
postharvest equipment and facilities as well as STWs, facilitate marketing tie-ups and
contract growing arrangements, conduct trade and farm machinery fairs and exhibitions,
and conduct production-related research and development activities.
High Value Crops Program
This program aims to help address the need for food security, poverty alleviation, and
sustainable growth. It promotes the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of
high value crops and, in the process, help create increased income and improved
livelihood opportunities.
Livestock Program
This program seeks to help ensure food security while alleviating poverty and enhancing
the incomes of livestock growers. Thus, the region will strive to maintain its status as a
Foot and Mouth Disease-free region. It shall also intensify breeding efforts to increase
livestock populations. As a consequence, it will contribute substantially to Mega Manilas
daily requirement for pork, chicken and eggs.
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Irrigation
Irrigated areas in Region IV-A will be increased by 43,296 has by the end of the plan period.
A total of 60,413 rice farmers will have their respective farms irrigated. In the meantime,
SSIPs will generate 2,298 has benefitting 1,597 farmers.
The length of FMRs in the region will increase by 315 kms during the plan period,
creating higher efficiencies in palay, corn and HVC production areas, primarily in Laguna,
Cavite, and Quezon.
Throughout the period 2011-2017, DA-RFU IVA will improve farmers and fishers access
to production facilities which will mainly be greenhouses /screen houses /rain shelters,
laboratories, nurseries, and community seed banks. These facilities will be constructed
using DA funds and LGUs and NGOs, under MOAs, will be operating and maintaining
them. They will be distributed mostly in Cavite, Quezon and Laguna to support the growing
of vegetables, mango, pineapple, and coffee, and the raising of livestock.
Postharvest facilities and equipment, consisting mostly of dryers, hermetic cocoons,
village-type grain processing centers, seed storage facilities, threshers, combine harvesters,
roasting machines, depulpers, and stripping machines, will also be made available mainly
in Quezon, Laguna, and Cavite where most of the corn, rice, and coffee areas are located.
Access to these facilities will be increased through counter parting schemes.
To give producers better access to markets, the DA will also construct, or shoulder the cost
of the construction of, barangay food terminals and trading posts throughout the region.
These facilities will mainly support the marketing of high value crops (vegetable and
fruits), livestock, and fisheries.
mostly of on-farm verification and commercialization of production-related and postproduction technologies on rice, corn, coffee, lanzones, livestock, and poultry. To support
these activities, the Technology Generation and Dissemination for the Growth and
Development of Vegetable Industry, Regional Crop Protection Center, Southern Tagalog
Integrated Agricultural Research Center, Quezon Agricultural Experiment Station, and
Rizal Agricultural Station will be rehabilitated, upgraded, and maintained. These facilities
will primarily collect, update, and compile different statistical data and research-generated
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technology information; conduct applied researches; maintain, reproduce and distribute

improved genetic planting materials/quality breeding stocks for multiplication; conduct
on-station and farmer-demonstration trials; and propagate planting materials for
distribution. Appropriate and sufficient extension services, mainly in the form of
establishing and operating farmer field schools, conducting training of trainers, and the
disseminating packages of technology will also be undertaken and focused on rice, corn
and vegetable farming, post-harvest handling and marketing of agricultural produce.
Marketing assistance, mostly market matching activities and agri fairs, will also be
strengthened in the region, especially in Quezon and Laguna, to support the efficiency
gains in the value chains in rice, corn, HVCs (coffee, cacao, vegetables, mango, pineapple,
and rambutan), and other root crops.
Regulatory Services
For the duration of plan implementation, regulatory services in the region will be centered
on the prevention/control and eradication of hemorrhagic septicaemia, hog cholera,
liverfluke, and avian influenza in livestock or poultry; and brontispa longisima, bacterial
wilt, black bug, tungro, corn borer, army worm leaf, and leaf holder in various crops.
Consequently, border control interventions, bio security measures, information and
education campaigns, surveillance and prevention measures in seaports, among others,
will be conducted in all provinces of the region. Moreover, the accreditation, licensing,
certification, inspection, clearance, permitting, and other regulatory activities will be
strengthened to record the inflow and outflow of commodities and to prevent the entry of
pests and diseases. Quarantine stations and checkpoints, mostly in Quezon and Batangas,
will also be established, maintained and/or upgraded. The soil and crop laboratories in
Laguna and Batangas will be upgraded. Finally, testing for feeds and diagnostics will be
intensified.
Policy and Planning
RFU IVA will ensure that the RAFMP, Regional Medium Term Development Plan,
Agricultural Investment Plan (AIP), Plan and Budget Proposal (PBP), and Gender and
Development Plan and Budget (GPB) are formulated when and in the manner required.
For the AIP, PBP, GPB, this would mean an annual process of formulation. In all cases,
the substantial participation of all stakeholders will be ensured.
The DAs programs, projects, and activities will likewise be monitored and evaluated,
with the appropriate participation of stakeholders.
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The following will be undertaken to improve the capacity of the sector in the region to
cope with the effects of climate change:
a. Establishment of Agro-met stations in the whole region;
b. Conduct of researches on the effects of, and mitigation and adaptation measures in
response to, climate change;
c. Provision of emergency support such as buffer stocking of palay / certified seeds,
corn and vegetable seeds for distribution and rehabilitation;
d. Provision of assorted planting materials in Cavite, Laguna & Batangas and
assorted fingerlings in Cavite & Laguna;
e. Provision of coconut seedlings/planting materials for replanting in Laguna
province; and
f. Provision of agricultural insurance by the PCIC,
7.5.4 Inputs
billion. The bulk is accounted for by infrastructure and equipment support (71.8%). The
rest of the requirement goes to RDE (11.9%), transitory functions (8.8%), policy and
planning (3.3%), and regulation (4.2%).
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Table 39.Productivity Targets, CALABARZON

2012
Palay
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Corn (mt/ha.)
White
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Yellow
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Livestock (mt)
Swine
Goat
Cattle
Carabao
Chicken
Duck
HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana
Coconut (copra)
Pineapple
Mango
Sugarcane
Coffee
Cacao
Rubber
Vegetables
Eggplant
Tomato
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Fishery (mt)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
2013
2014
2015
2016
3.99
433,917
4.04
481,424
4.27
510,728
4.37
523,163
4.46
556,559
1.79
35,211
1.95
39,223
2.24
45,144
2.24
47,148
2.32
49,550
2.01
26,940
2.28
31,707
2.40
34,443
2.55
37,188
2.64
40,011
288,219
3,370
25,381
6,590
308,204
775
293,983
3,477
25,624
6,682
325,464
780
300,451
3,596
25,875
6,799
344,015
785
307,962
3,725
26,134
6,942
363,968
791
317,201
3,867
26,401
7,115
385,806
797
21.45
0.88
39.24
4.62
58.05
0.85
0.55
3.06
22.07
0.9
40.38
4.75
62.29
0.9
0.58
3.24
22.71
0.92
41.55
4.89
66.52
0.95
0.6
3.36
23.37
0.94
42.76
5.03
70.76
1.01
0.61
3.47
24.05
1
44
5.18
75
1.06
0.7
3.55
10.29
12.25
15.95
11.8
10.59
12.6
16.42
12.14
10.9
12.97
16.9
12.49
11.22
13.35
17.39
12.85
11.54
13.73
17.89
13.23
89,936
133,094
212,297
92,356
136,674
218,008
94,840
140,351
223,873
97,922
144,912
231,148
101,350
149,984
239,239
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Table 40.Priority Value Chains, CALABARZON

Priority Commodity/ties
Vegetables
(upland & lowland)
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces )

Domestic
or Export)
Laguna
Quezon
Local
(specifically supplying Metro
manila when
Northern Luzon was
affected by typhoons or
other calamities.
- Assorted veg. Seeds, fertilizers,

labor,etc
- POT training on cultural
management, IPM, etc.
- Provision of Greenhouses & rain
shelters
- Farm cultivation machineries
(hand tractors)
- Post Harvest /processing
facilities/equipments
- Windmill
- Irrigation FacilitiesRefrigerated
vans
- FMR (Dolores)
Table 41.Summary of Inputs, CALABARZON

Function
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
NFA Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
Information Support
NFA Palay procurement
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Transitional
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking
Total
Budget ('000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
282,851
112,435
59,690
62,633
-
343,935
56,420
509,500
125,423
73,190
687,837
60,648
752,110
188,759
61,700
1,131,711
54,740
159,410
152,847
105,060
1,014,335
49,050
180,450
162,795
145,060
936,817
39,490
201,250
161,849
157,060
614,090
38,540
218,570
166,355
-
130
56,866
20,858
117,555
10,225
91,762
65,878
117,956
6,475
130,564
6,845
146,045
6,845
141,685
26,649
91,823
41,228
81,490
68,290
90,910
86,990
863
-
2,850
-
872
8,082,311
3,250
9,980,061
1,350
10,264,723
1,350
10,549,386
1,350
-
900
23,688
48,430
102,972
101,208
105,373
114,491
5,417
725
-
16,280
3,166
-
19,230
2,654
-
71,153
9,571
-
72,190
12,055
-
72,828
14,499
-
73,207
16,859
-
21,383
-
181,434
6,652
218,088
10,249
137,159
5,857
139,379
5,963
152,954
6,070
156,253
6,179
1,620,907
6,528,669
7,212,871
7,432,455
7,609,307
630,541
1,499,584
2,132,092
2,093,994
1,944,104
1,936,280
1,641,414
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7.6 MIMAROPA
Table 42.MIMAROPA by the Numbers
Region IV-B
Land Area (has)
Population
Major Commodities
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)
Municipal Fisheries
Production (mt)
Marine Municipal Fisheries
Production (mt)

2,745,601
542,218
2,744,671.00
35.00
National
9.15% of national
5.61% of national
2.97% of national
26.50
857,531.55
3.27
5.44% of national
3.62
659,219.26
3.63
4.25% of national
4.34
466,637.73
18.33% of national
211,880.18
15.45% of national
210,977.32
17.82% of national
7.6.1 Development Vision

This RAFMP is founded on the vision of MIMAROPA achieving rapid, inclusive, and
sustainable agriculture and fisheries development,the region having the best agribusiness
climate and the highest climate change resiliency that is enjoyed by empowered farmers,
fishers and all agriculture and fisheries stakeholders through good governance,
transparency and accountability.

MIMAROPA sets for itself the following goals and objectives to be achieved by the end of
2017:
1. Self-sufficiency in various degrees in the following commodities:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
182% in rice,
213% in beef,
199% in pork,
243% in fruits,
51% in vegetables, and
562% in fish.
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2. Improved conditions conducive for a profitable, competitive, and sustainable agrifishery sector with empowered farmers, fishers, and all other stakeholders;
3. Increased income for targeted small farmers and fishers;
4. Increased resiliency of target areas to the risks of climate change;
5. Increased client satisfaction rate for the Department in the region; and
6. Increased agricultural and fisheries productivity in the following manner:
Table 43.Productivity Targets, MIMAROPA
Commodity
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
914,533
1,028,605
1,126,956
1,204,465
1,243,895
1,278,170
1,259,243
3.63
3.79
4.04
4.27
4.37
4.46
4.46
69,735
86,556
8,777
95,297
100,999
107,493
112,857
3.63
3.85
3.79
3.98
4.05
4.18
4.27
14,438
16,693
17,765
18,218
18,294
20,354
21,610
1.98
2.13
2.16
2.07
2.04
2.24
2.30
Banana
7.9
8.13
8.36
8.61
8.86
9.11
9.38
Mango
2.47
2.54
2.61
2.69
2.77
2.85
2.93
Pineapple
3.84
3.96
4.07
4.19
4.31
4.44
4.56
Eggplant
2.57
2.65
2.72
2.8
2.88
2.97
3.05
Tomato
4.26
4.38
4.51
4.64
4.77
4.91
5.05
Coffee
0.23
0.24
0.25
0.27
0.28
0.3
0.32
Cacao
0.64
0.65
0.68
0.69
0.72
0.73
0.83
Hog
68,292
69,056
70,437
71,987
73,787
76,000
78,432
Goat
2,316
2,363
2,439
2,522
2,613
2,712
2,821
Cattle
10,997
11,025
11,131
11,240
11,352
11,468
11,587
Rice
Production
Yield
Corn, Yellow
Production
Yield
Corn, White
Production
Yield
HVCC (yield)
Livestock
Carabao
7,096
7,413
7,517
7,648
7,809
8,004
8,212
Chicken
10,004
10,506
11,095
11,727
12,407
13,152
13,967
325
344
346
348
351
354
357
753,900
778,500
807,900
838,500
869,500
903,600
937,800
Duck
Fisheries
Production in mt (Livestock and Fisheries), Yield in mt/ha (Rice, Corn, HVCC)
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7.6.3 Strategies
1. Promotion of the use of high quality seeds, planting materials, breeds of animals,
and species of fishes & marine plants and animals, as well as the adoption of
balanced fertilization and organic agriculture;
2. Promotion and intensification of the production of commodities with comparative
advantage, progressive/viable markets, and high suitability in the region;
3. Improvement of every segment of the value-chain of priority commodities,
especially the weakest ones;
4. Focused targeting of program/project sites;
5. Development of niche markets for priority commodities;
6. Management of the supply and demand of priority commodities;
7. Promotion of alternatives to rice (white corn, sweet potato, saba, cassava) as food
staples in rice-deficient provinces;
8. Rehabilitation/construction/establishment of new FMRs, bridges, & port facilities,
irrigation systems, postharvest facilities, and agricultural machinery that are
climate change-adapted;
9. Prevention of the entry and exit of agriculture and fishery commodities pests and
diseases through information dissemination and strict enforcement of quarantine
laws and regulations;
10. Strengthening of linkages among research and development and extension
activities;
11. Strengthening of existing rural associations /organizations /cooperatives, especially
the AFCs & FARMCs, and the building up of their management and
entrepreneurial capabilities;
12. Promotion of convergence initiatives with other national government agencies,
SUCs, NGOs & POs; and
13. Strengthening of the technical capabilities of devolved agricultural workers and the
facilitation of coordination with LGUs, SUCs, NGOs, CSOs, and other national
government agencies.

InfrastructureSupport
Irrigation
Agricultural areas receiving irrigation in the region will expand by 39,297has during the
implementation of this AFMP. The majority of the irrigated areas that will be generated
under this plan will be located in Palawan, Oriental Mindoro, and Occidental Mindoro,
where rice output of the region comes mostly from. A total of 35,523 farmers will benefit
from this support. Meanwhile, SSIP will serve a total of 3,350 has wherein 3,027 farmers
will benefit.
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During the plan period, 419 kms of FMRs will be constructed in the region. The majority
of these roads will be located in Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro and Palawan to
make the value chains in rice, corn, high value crops, and other agricultural crops more
efficient.
RFU IVB will make available to as many agricultural producers as possible production
equipment and facilities that will consist mainly of nurseries, scion groves, green houses,
laboratories, seedbanks, composing facilities, multiplier farms, and liquid nitrogen plants.
These facilities and equipment will be made available through public-private partnership
arrangements in the whole region to support the production of rice, corn, banana,
livestock, high value crops as well as vegetables and other agricultural crops. Meanwhile,
the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be made available under the plan will
mostly be dryers, storage facilities, slaughterhouses, processing complexes, stripping
machines, a mango Hot Water Treatment facility, and cassava granulators. The majority
of these facilities will be distributed in Palawan, Oriental Mindoro and Occidental
Mindoro where rice, cassava, onion, copra, abaca, corn, cashew and high value crops are
and will be produced and processed.
The other infrastructure that would be made increasingly available in the region include
trading centers, x-ray machines for mango pulp weevil detection, agromet stations, and
tramlines.
The regions R&D activities will mainly be on-farm verification, researches, and other
studies on production related technologies, organic agriculture, and climate changeadapted farming methods and techniques. To support these activities, demo farms will be
constructed and run and the and the Regional Integrated Agricultural Research Centers,
Palawan Agricultural Experiment Station, Palawan Agricultural Center, Abo abo Rural
Agricultural Center, Oriental Mindoro Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural
Demonstration Center, Murtha Demonstration Farm, Livestock Resource Center, and
Palawan Dairy Demonstration Farm upgraded and/or maintained. These facilities will
serve as venue for research on priority commodities, as demonstration sites for the latest
agricultural methods and techniques, and as sources of superior genetic materials such as
quality vegetable seeds and planting materials, and superior breeds of cattle, goat, and
native chicken.
The needed extension services will also be undertaken to disseminate the outputs of the
R&D activities in the region. These services will mostly be training of trainers, farmer
field schools, and demonstrations of various kinds, and will be focused on climate change
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adaptation, value chain efficiencies, organic farming, and enterprise development and
management.
Marketing assistance will also be enhanced for high value crops and other agricultural
products of the region. This assistance will mostly be in the forms of agri fairs, market
matching, and production programming and will prioritize the value chains of rice, corn,
fisheries, copra, calamansi, cashew, garlic onion, livestock, and poultry. They will be
focused in Oriental Mindoro, Occ. Mindoro, and Palawan.
Regulatory Services
During the plan period, Region IVB will seek to prevent or control and eradicate mango
pulp weevil, brontispa longisima, hemorrhagic septicemia, rabies, hog cholera, avian
influenza, liver fluke, and fasciliosis. Consequently, blood sample collection or negative
monitoring will be intensified to monitor the diseases of interest to the region and prevent
these from spreading. Surveillance will be continued to ensure that the region remains
FMD-free. Moreover, the accreditation, licensing, certification, inspection, clearance,
permitting, and other regulatory activities of producers, transporters and vendors, as
appropriate, will be strengthened. Quarantine stations and checkpoints will also be
established, maintained and/or upgraded for the region to have a more effective disease
surveillance system. These stations will be located mostly in Oriental Mindoro, Romblon,
Marinduque, and Palawan. In addition, existing soils laboratories, tissue culture
laboratories, satellite Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratories, feed laboratories,
and LN2, which are located in Romblon, Palawan, Oriental Mindoro and Occ. Mindoro,
will be maintained, and upgraded, while new ones will be constructed in Palawan, the two
Mindoro provinces, and Batangas. Finally, testing for soil, seed, feed, and blood samples
will likewise be strengthened.
Policy and Planning
The region will ensure that the Regional AFMP, Medium-term Public Investment
Program, Sectoral Committee on Economic Development Plan, Rural Infrastructure Plans,
commodity plans, Annual Work Plan (AWP), Plan and Budget Proposal (PBP), Gender
and Development(GAD) Plan are formulated in the manner and at the time that is required
which, for the AWP, PBP, and GAD would be annually. For the AFMP, it would mean an
annual review and revalidation, and a formulation in 6 years. In the formulation and
review of all these plans, the DA will ensure that substantial participation from all
stakeholders will be secured.
The DA will also ensure that its programs, projects, and activities are monitored and
evaluated, also with the active and substantial participation of all stakeholders. It will
conduct of quarterly monitoring and field validation through either focused group
discussions or one-on-one interviews with the stakeholders. It will also conduct monthly
operational monitoring of programs and projects.
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For the agriculture and fisheries sector in the region to cope more effectively with the
effects of climate change, RFU IVB will, during the plan period:
a. Improve the engineering designs and relocate to safer areas the construction sites
of rural infrastructures to make these climate change-smart;

b. Undertake buffer stocking of certified rice, corn, and vegetable seeds for use in
rehabilitating production areas;

c. Introduce innovative risk-transfer mechanisms such as Area-Based Yield
Insurance;
d. Provide rehabilitation/preparedness assistance such as STWs as well as small farm
implements and equipment;

e. Establish Agro-Met stations throughout the region, where needed;
f. Produce seeds of rice varieties & other crops, and raise stocks of native livestock &
poultry adaptive to climate change;

saline-prone types and varieties of agri-fishery commodities,
submergence varieties, drought-resistant varieties of rice and vegetables, pest and
disease-resistant breeds of animals and varieties of crops;
h. Promote indigenous crops and animals that are acclimatized to the environment;
and
i. Grant insurance cover worth PhP 5.9 billion, mostly for rice and corn crops.
g. Promote
7.6.5 Inputs
billion. The majority of this requirement will go to infrastructure and equipment support
(62.3%). The rest of the requirement goes to transitory functions (19.1%), RDE (9.3%),
policy and planning (7.5%), and regulation (1.7%).
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Table 44.Priority Value Chains, MIMAROPA

Production Areas
Market Outlet
Rice
All provinces
Local, Domestic, MM
Hybrid seeds, irrigation facilities, PHF, FMR, Organic

fertilizer,technical trainings, R & D
Corn
Occidental Mindoro & Palawan
Local, Domestic
Quality seeds, STWs, PHF, FMR, technical trainings, R & D
Fish
All provinces
Local, Domestic, Metro Manila
Technology/processing Trainings, product leveling & packaging,

GMP-HACCP, Establishment of MPA/Sanctuary, habitat
protection, ice plant & cold storage, small-scale fish
port(Marinduque)
Coconut
All provinces
Domestic, export
Seed nuts, biopest control, organic fertilizer, coco fiber & coco
juice processing facilities, market linkages; Coco Peat
production
Banana
Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon
Farm-to-market Roads; Processing Facilities, Trading Centers,

PH Trainings, Trade Fairs, Techno Demo, tissue culture lab
Calamansi
Oriental Mindoro
Rehab existing plantation, processing center, power cost

subsidy, organize commodity board
Cashew
Palawan, Occidental Mindoro
Farm-to-market Roads; Post Harvest Facilities & Processing

Tools & Equipt, Trainings, Quality Planting Materials
Native Pigs (Organik

Baboy)
Marinduque, Or. Mindoro, Romblon
AI services, Technical Trainings, Construction of AA slaughter

house, Meat processing equipt, Cold storage, product devt ,
auction market, biodegradable packaging materials
Seaweeds
Palawan
Domestic, Export
Establishment of nurseries/tissue cultured lab, marine protected

area, PH processing facilities, regulations (quality control)
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Table 45.Summary of Inputs, MIMAROPA

Budget '(000)
Function
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
NFA Other Infra*
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
15,290
15,290
147,590
89,672
-
29,790
49,040
413,725
228,129
-
37,650
64,750
296,646
270,181
-
46,098
87,858
394,610
470,565
-
53,157
100,157
452,060
379,581
-
56,916
109,356
512,390
230,506
-
56,916
109,356
560,590
209,042
-
7,201
54,802
333
861
-
25,167
85,054
720
2,250
-
19,566
101,952
847
2,275
-
26,095
110,979
1,657
1,825
-
23,440
99,367
1,710
1,775
-
23,499
97,638
1,713
1,775
-
24,376
97,513
1,715
1,775
-
7,233
19,066
9,891
38,559
29,725
26,073
22,546
40,467
25,885
558
26,860
34,784
600
38,425
38,529
545
51,556
45,898
600
54,847
54,534
600
54,633
63,224
600
57,113
71,973
600
65,962
16,484
155,655
26,532
197,024
41,448
248,338
53,667
241,425
53,480
234,976
55,688
236,243
56,777
487,628
1,097,370
1,119,728
1,578,304
1,545,858
1,468,986
1,506,535
RDE
Extension
Information Support
NFA Palay Procurement*
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Transitional
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking*
Total
* NFA interventions reflected in RFU 4A
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7.7 Bicol
Table 46.Bicol by the Numbers
Profile and Performance
Land Area (has)

National
1,763,252
5.88% of national
891,955
9.22% of national
Population (2011, projected)
5,354,551
5.87% of national
45.10
26.50
1,269,537.97
8.19% of national
2.80
4.34
1,081,078.00
6.85% of national
3.41
3.62
22,245
25.0% of national
40.56
0.53
174,478.75
2.74% of national
1.71
2.55
147,486.11
10.75% of national
Major Commodities
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Abaca
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Municipal Fisheries
Production (mt)
Source of data: Land Area and Population NSCB V, 2011; Agricultural Area BAS, 2002; Poverty Incidence NSCB, 2009;
7.7.1 Objectives and Strategies

Productivity Targets
The productivity targets for the region are shown in the following table.
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Table 47.Productivity Targets, Bicol

Commodity
Abaca (Y)
Rice
Production
Yield
White corn
Production
Yield
Yellow corn
Production
Yield
HVCC
Pili (P)
Cassava (P)
Banana (Y)
Pineapple (Y)
Mango (Y)
Cacao (Y)
Eggplant (Y)
Tomato (Y)
Livestock
Swine
Chicken
Carabao
Cattle
Goat
Fisheries
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
2011
0.43
2012
0.53
2013
0.59
2014
0.66
2015
0.73
2016
0.8
2017
0.85
1,096,105
3.36
1,174,376
3.79
1,246,397
3.89
1,351,095
4.11
1,411,074
4.18
1,459,527
4.29
1,467,350
4.29
47,208
0.84
49,611
0.87
54,399
0.93
61,147
1.00
64,584
1.04
69,521
1.11
75,634
1.19
167,817
3.23
188,609
3.52
206,624
3.72
218,802
3.86
226,241
3.94
237,553
4.09
250,010
4.26
4.26
37.5
0.54
36
6770.64
125,462
4.39
38.59
0.56
41
5.48
6.49
7109.17
145,712
4.51
39.72
0.58
52
5.64
6.88
7535.72
200,387
4.64
40.87
0.59
69
5.81
6.88
7987.87
270,857
4.78
42.06
0.61
83
5.97
7.07
8467.14
353,933
4.92
43.28
0.63
113
6.15
7.28
8975.17
424,719
5.06
44.53
0.64
118,945
26,969
8,988
13,697
2,666
123,084
28,110
9,548
14,151
2,873
125,546
29,684
9,682
14,287
2,965
128,308
31,376
9,851
14,427
3,065
131,516
33,196
10,058
14,572
3,176
135,461
35,187
10,309
14,720
3,296
139,796
37,369
10,577
14,873
3,428
68,972
143,712
68,972
72,420
150,897
72,420
76,041
158,442
76,041
79,843
166,364
79,843
83,835
174,682
83,835
88,027
183,416
88,027
92,428
192,587
92,428
6.33
7.49
Production in mt (Livestock and Fisheries)), Yield in mt/ha
Major Strategies and Priority Programs

Rice Program
a. Increase the productivity of rice areas and close the yield gap by increasing farmers
access to irrigation and appropriate and high-quality inputs, reducing postharvest
losses, providing adequate market infrastructure, and strengthening RDE;
b. Increase the rice farmers resiliency to risks/hazards and improve climate change
adaptation and mitigation by ensuring access to appropriate varieties, technologies
and infrastructure; and strengthening pest monitoring and surveillance and early
warning systems; and
c. Reduce the demand for rice as staple food in the region by promoting the
consumption of alternative food staples.
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Corn Program
a. Make high-yielding varieties, cost reducing technologies, and the appropriate pest
surveillance and monitoring system more available in major corn producing areas;
b. Promote and increase support to mechanized farm production;
c. Establish more postharvest and storage facilities in corn cluster areas;
d. Promote organized direct marketing of corn to end users; and
e. Expand markets.
High Value Commercial Crops Program
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Mobilize wider participation among the different key players/ stakeholders;

Facilitate and harmonize interventions in the strategic production areas(s)/zone(s);
Deliver appropriate support services;
Facilitate and promote access to local and international markets; and
Proactively manage actions on demand and supply situations.
Livestock Program
a. Provide superior quality breeder stock and implement massive artificial
insemination;
b. Institutionalize disease surveillance and diagnosis;
c. Increase the pasture stocking rate by introducing improved planting materials and
providing SSIPs and tractors for pasturelands; and
d. Disseminate climate change mitigation technologies for livestock.
Organic Agriculture
a. Provide adequate and appropriate support to the various technical committees in
support of the Organic Agriculture System in the region; and
b. Implement the regional comprehensive organic agricultural program.
Fisheries Sector
a.
b.
c.
d.
Increase fish production through resource conservation measures;

Intensify fishery resource protection and law enforcement;
Fast-track fishery infrastructure development;
Facilitate access to new and better technologies, credit, and new markets including
the development of new product standards; and
e. Work towards trade expansion.
Coconut Sector
a. Promote the use of common salt to increase coconut productivity and improve
coconut resistance to pests and diseases;
b. Promote planting and replanting using OPVs as well as intercropping using short
season high value crops;
c. Strengthen coconut cooperatives and coconut farmers organizations;
d. Promote coconut-based farming systems and the use of coconut by-products as
source of additional on-farm income;
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e. Increase and strengthen market development activities; and

f. Ensure the strict implementation of the Coconut Preservation Act of 1995.
Abaca Sector
Promote the integrated development of the fiber industry through intensified RDE
activities, the development and dissemination of appropriate postharvest technologies, and
the efficient and effective implementation of regulatory measures.
a. Adopt the participatory approach in all phases of program formulation and
implementation;
b. Prioritize complementation of resources & expertise among concerned agency &
LGU in program implementation;
c. Mainstream convergence in all phases of programs of NGAs and LGUs; and
d. Promote an enabling environment to encourage private sector investments.

Irrigation
For the plan period, a total of 42,442 has of new service area will be generated and restored,
while 26,548 has will be rehabilitated. These will be generated from NISs and CISs. The
majority of these areas will be located in Camarines Sur and Masbate, specifically in areas
planted to rice. A total of 62,274 farmers will benefit from this support. An additional 2,934
has will be irrigated with SSIPs and from which 2,410 farmers will benefit.
A total of 541kms of FMRs will be constructed in the region during the plan period. The
majority of these roads will be located in Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, and Masbate.
Production, Postharvest and Processing Equipment and Facilities
The production facilities and equipment that will be provided under this plan include
nurseries, rainshelters, screenhouses, and greenhouses. They also include scion
groves/budwood gardens, tissue culture laboratories, organic/biological fertilizer plants,
biological control agent plants, and mariculture parks. These facilities distribute quality
breeder seeds, livestock, bio-control agents, compost fungus activators, vermicomposting
agents, and broodstocks through LGUs, POs and NGOs. All these outputs will be
distributed throughout the region to support production and productivity increases in high
value crops, organically-raised crops, abaca, livestock and fishery products.
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Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities that will be made available to stakeholders include grain
centers, warehouses, storage facilities, drying facilities and equipment, organic trading centers,
and municipal and barangay food terminals. Majority of these facilities will be distributed in
provinces where rice, corn, high value crops, pili, and abaca are produced and processed
commercially. Finally, access to processing equipment and facilities in the form of milling or
processing centers/complexes will be facilitated by the RFU and LGUs through MOAs with
the recipients, i.e., farmers associations. However, private traders/millers/processors can also
avail of these facilities through loan arrangements. Provinces with deficient milling capacities
will be priority destinations for grain centers and mills.
Tissue culture laboratories will be upgraded with the widening of their scope of crops
covered and through cost-sharing arrangements with partner institutions.
mostly of various researches on the priority commodity crops of the region. These
activities will, more specifically, be: (a) documentation of indigenous knowledge on
climate change; (b) development and promotion of technologies for the efficient use of
water in agriculture; (c) promotion and dissemination mechanisms of soil and water
conservation measures; (d) development of a dynamic cropping calendar for major crops;
and (e) development of localized weather-based early warning and forecasting system for
agricultural production. All these activities will be undertaken to ensure enough climate
change resiliency in the agriculture and fisheries sector in the region. Continuous
education and information dissemination on the latest technology and improvement of
farm/manufacturing will also be included.
To complement these R&D activities, tissue culture laboratories and greenhouses will be
established, and R&D facilities will be upgraded and/or maintained during the plan period.
These facilities will primarily support researches on production, irrigation and water,
postharvest handling, and marketing.
Information on latest agricultural technologies resulting from R&D activities will need to be
disseminated and the use of these technologies promoted. Thus, extension support, education,
and training services will be provided in the most effective and efficient manner. These
services include training, production and dissemination of IEC materials, establishment of
technology demonstrations, and provision of support to agricultural extension workers.
increase efficiencies in the value chains of the priority commodities of the region. For rice,
an e-trading system will be established to promote and develop markets, thereby
stabilizing palay prices. Cluster farms and their organizations will be strengthened to
maximize the benefits from organized direct marketing by producers to end-users. To
facilitate and promote access to local and international markets, the region will continue to
support product development, market matching and promotion activities.
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Regulatory Services
prevention/control and eradication of crops, livestock and poultry, and fishery pest and
diseases, e.g., foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, bunchy top, mosaic, abaca bract,
and mango pulp weevil. The regions capacities will be enhanced to ensure the quality and
safety of its products and to prevent the spread of pests and diseases from Luzon to the
Visayas and vice versa because of its role as a gateway region to both areas. Consequently,
animal welfare facilities will be established, feeds and veterinary drugs facilities will
continue to be inspected and monitored, veterinary drugs and products establishments will
continue to be registered, and testing laboratories and quarantine facilities will maintained
and upgraded. These measures will be undertaken to also maintain the regions status as
plant/animal disease free.
For the abaca industry, inspection and permit issuances for transport of fibers will be
strictly implemented and abaca volume and value produced and traded will continuously
monitored, specifically in Catanduanes, Albay, and Sorsogon provinces.
The issuance of regulatory documents, such as seed certifications, accreditations, land use
classifications, and clearances and permits that include plant materials characterization,
and licenses of fertilizer and pesticide handlers and fishing boats, will be strengthened.
The enforcement of regulatory laws will be intensified.
Policy and Planning
Policy and planning activities for 2011-2017 shall include policy reviews/technical
updates, provincial data reviews, regular operational and program monitoring and
evaluation activities. DA REFU V shall coordinate with NEDA, attached agencies,
national agencies, and the provincial and local government units in the formulation of
agri-fishery plans and programs in the region.
Since the region is usually visited by weather disturbances, the provision of access to
weather-based insurance and guarantees will be prioritized. So would the delivery of
emergency support such as the setting up and maintenance of a buffer stock of certified
seeds and chemicals/pesticides. In addition, the appropriate equipment will be distributed
and cloud seeding for vulnerable areas will be conducted when warranted. For better
information on the weather situation to be available, Agro-meteorological stations will be
established and maintained, farm bulletins will be issued when required, and UEGISrelated databases will be maintained.
7.7.3 Inputs
the requirement is allocated for transitory functions (7.1%), RDE (5.6%), policy and
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Table 48.Priority Value Chains, Bicol

Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
Market Outlet
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
(Local, Domestic or
Export)
Abaca
Albay, Camarines
Norte, Camarines
Sur , Catanduanes
Rice
Traders, abaca
farmers
Albay, Camarines
NFA, traders,
Norte, Camarines
millers,
Sur, Catanduanes, cooperatives
Masbate, Sorsogon
Establishment of abaca nurseries
Maintenance of abaca seedbanks, tissue culture, and
diagnostic laboratories
Rehabilitation and rejuvenation of existing abaca farms
Education and training on abaca package of technologies, post
harvest , fiber grading and standard, proper fiber processing,
etc.
Provision of fiber drying facilities
Establishment of collective and direct marketing system
Enhancement of market information system
Promotion of high-yielding variety, and disease-free abaca
planting materials
Construction, repair, and maintenance of farm-to-market
roads
Provision of mechanical fiber stripping machines and hand
stripping devices to farmers cooperatives/associations
Provision of processing machines and weaving looms
Distribution of carabaos to farmers
cooperatives/associations
Organization of farmers cooperatives/associations
Provision of hauling and delivery vehicles
Provision of organic/inorganic fertilizers
Proper timing of harvesting activities
Promotion of abaca value-adding activities
Provision of seeds (inbred highland varieties, high-yielding
varieties, flood/drought resistant varieties, foundation
seeds)
Provision of organic/inorganic fertilizer (balance fertilization)
Seed Banking
Education and training: farmers field school; package of
technologies; integrated pest management
Adoption of cost-reducing technologies (e.g. MRC, tipid
abono, vermin composting, IPM, etc)
Provision of: drum seeders; hand tractors;
threshers/blowers; harvester; cage wheel; trailers; flatbed
dryers; soil test kits; mechanical dryers; pulley carriage;
transport facilities.
roads
Establishment of: multi-purpose drying pavements; milling
facilities; warehouses
Construction, rehabilitation, and restoration of national and
communal irrigation systems
Construction of small water impounding projects
Installation of shallow tube wells
Organization of cooperatives
Strengthening and capability building of irrigators
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
Market Outlet
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
(Local, Domestic or
Export)
associations
Facilitation of access to credit
Expansion of market
Establishment of NFA buying station
Implementation of PCAs fertilization program
Provision of: pesticides and brontispa biological controls;
drying facilities; coco dehuskers; moistures meters
roads
Establishment of coconut nurseries
Establishment of storage facilities
Constant monitoring of coconut pests and diseases
Education and training on afflatoxin control technologies
Provision of incentives to coconut farmers
Regulation of fare rates
Provision of: mechanical dryers; working tables; kitchen
tools; vacuum sealers; packaging materials
Education and training on by-product utilization
Coconut
Albay, Camarines
Norte, Camarines
Sur
Farmers
Organizations/
Cooperatives, oil
millers
Aquamarine,
Dried dilis,
Bagoong
Camarines Norte
Fish Traders,
buying stations
Organic Rice
Camarines Norte
Malls, health
conscious endusers
Provision of: organic fertilizer and compact fertilizer; tractor;

power sprayer
Provision of unmilled ricemill
Accreditation as organic supplier
Certification of merchandise as organic product/s
Dried Pusit
Camarines Norte
Fish traders, fish

vendors, buying
stores
Provision of: mechanical dryers; working tables; vacuum

sealers; packaging materials; lahar
Native Chicken/ Camarines Sur,

Organic
Sorsogon
Chicken
Corn
Camarines Sur,
Masbate
Traders, farmers
Increase the area for growing organic feeds

Use native materials for housing
Provision of: incubators; haulers
Establishment of dressing plant
Facilitation of access to credit
Protection against avian-flu and other diseases
roads
Promote contract growing
Establishment of grain center
Provision of: organic inputs; corn seeders; corn shellers
Education and training on package of technologies and
integrated pest management
Seed banking
Installation of shallow tube wells and construction of small
farm reservois
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Water hyacinth
for handbag
Production Areas
Market Outlet
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
(Local, Domestic or
Export)

roads
Establishment of water hyacinth culture
Coordination with appropriate agencies
Camarines Sur
Gabi Leaves
Camarines Sur
Tilapia/Fishpen
Catanduanes
Crab
Catanduanes
Goat
Masbate
Danggit
Sorsogon
Private farms
Catanduanes
Mainland Bicol,
and Manila
Education and training on package of technology

Provision of marketing assistance
Provision of solar dryer and grading machine
Purchase feeds for the whole cropping
Education and training on postharvest
Made a contract with feed supplier for the regular delivery of
the feeds and crab cage
Construction of Swamp-FMR
Strengthening of peoples organizations
Purchase stock by volume
Strengthening of management capabilities
Introduction of new technologies and upgrading of stocks
Transport of product by volume
Regulation of catching of juvenile (kuyog)
Strengthen law enforcement
Provision of mechanical dryer/dehydrators
Facilitation to access credit for working capital
Capability building
Legislation of necessary laws
Clustering of processors
Marketing assistance (linking) through trade fairs, exhibits,
etc..,
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Table 49.Summary of Inputs, Bicol

Budget (P000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2,261,329 2,200,904 1,203,801
1,262,970
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
371,777
1,056,630 1,273,043
34,968
46,300
37,500
28,160
52,400
52,840
52,840
167,860
538,540
707,617
458,140
528,260
587,900
644,190
79,736
287,456
300,013
312,077
448,671
304,978
348,762
27,801
2,000
133,450
77,440
42,130
24,248
49,868
31,353
30,945
20,712
25,682
25,547
Extension
38,118
71,536
132,117
121,360
128,513
127,653
132,112
1,375
19,884
20,619
19,993
574
647
642
3,264,781
4,031,361 4,146,348 4,261,335
433
2,354
3,006
1,250
1,130
1,228
1,230
2,183
1,660
16,829
799
880
968
612
300
4,050
6,344
13,070
14,110
14,489
14,839
50
19,420
21,200
28,880
34,710
40,430
45,540
450
1,250
1,410
1,602
1,832
2,108
2,441
88,811
68,844
258,976
55,723
226,512
90,886
200,641
348
30,127
95,000
36,687
44,698
48,955
53,518
816,976
5,107,296
5,694,660 5,873,985 6,015,068
810,658 2,127,336 2,853,992
3,454,392 3,661,413 2,495,575
2,733,227
Other Infra
NFA Warehouses etc
RDE

NFA Procurement
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA - Buffer Stocking and Distribution
Total *
*Excluding NFA warehouses, procurement and buffer stocking
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7.8 Western Visayas

Table 50.Western Visayas by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
Major Commodities
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Fisheries
Production (mt)

2,022,311
666,917
7,102,438.00
31.20
National
6.74% of national
6.90% of national
7.69% of national
26.50
9,778,749.17
57.43
54.54% of national
50.52
1,789,693.00
3.31
11.35% of national
3.62
472,744.91
3.94
3.05% of national
4.34
332,177.65
9.65
3.65% of national
20.25
247,997.00
2.20
3.89% of national
2.55
441,557.87
8.56% of national
7.8.1 Goal and Objectives

Goal
The goal of this regional AFMP is to improve agriculture and fisheries production,
productivity, and profitability in Region VI, thus helping ensure an efficient, competitive
and sustainable agriculture and fisheries sector and increased incomes for farming and
fishing families in the region.
Objectives and Measurable Targets
At the end of the plan period, the following objectives are expected to be achieved:
a. Increase productivity in agriculture and fisheries as detailed in table 2; and
b. Improve and sustain self-sufficiency in rice, white corn, beef, pork, chicken meat
and fisheries.
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Table 51.Productivity Targets, Western Visayas

Commodity
Rice
Production (Metric Tons)
Productivity (MT/ha)
Corn
Yellow Corn
Production (Metric
Tons)
White Corn
Production (Metric
Tons)
Cassava
Production (Metric Tons)
High Value Crops
Banana
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Mango
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Coffee
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Vegetables
Ampalaya
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Cabbage
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Cauliflower
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Eggplant
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Okra
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
Squash Fruit
Production (MT)
Yield (MT/ha)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2,077,295
3.43
2,414,253
3.76
2,684,988
4.11
2,857,187
4.28
3,063,375
4.34
3,203,368
4.37
3,203,368
4.37
242,403
3.31
253,403
3.37
259,494
3.39
264,681
3.41
266,425
3.40
270,867
3.42
275,011
3.44
67,512
1.38
71,982
1.43
72,091
1.43
73,803
1.45
74,938
1.46
77,655
1.49
79,122
1.49
64,852
8.96
67,173
9.27
69,547
9.39
72,141
9.62
75,122
9.93
77,985
10.2
80,757
10.39
344,588.49 336,222.65 336,916.61 337,610.57 337,610.57 338,304.53 338,304.53

9.93
9.69
9.71
9.73
9.73
9.75
9.75
45,343.93
4.39
49,569.60
4.8
50,602.30
4.9
52,667.70
5.1
52,667.70
5.1
53,493.86
5.18
53,493.86
5.18
5,915.65
0.59
5,677.83
0.57
5,777.44
0.58
5,877.05
0.59
5,877.05
0.59
5,976.66
0.6
5,976.66
0.6
2720.29
7.15
2729.11
7.17
2736.8
7.19
2736.8
7.19
2744.41
7.21
2744.41
7.21
2752.03
7.23
484.22
7.2
489.1
7.3
495.8
7.4
502.5
7.5
509.2
7.6
515.9
7.7
522.6
7.8
46.5
7.21
42.96
6.66
43.34
6.72
43.67
6.77
44.05
6.83
44.44
6.89
44.83
6.95
15,085.89
10.09
15,024.75
10.05
15,054.65
10.07
15,054.65
10.07
15,129.40
10.12
15,129.40
10.12
15,099.50
10.12
1,562.19
6.37
1,586.57
6.47
1,611.10
6.57
1,635.62
6.67
1,660.14
6.77
1,684.66
6.87
1,709.18
6.97
14,981.39
16.6
15,030.79
16.65
15,030.79
16.65
15,075.93
16.7
15,121.06
16.75
15,121.06
16.75
15,121.06
16.75
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Commodity
2011
Stringbeans
Production (MT)
9,716.19
Yield (MT/ha)
11.24
Tomato
Production (MT)
8,891.86
Yield (MT/ha)
11.32
Livestock
Carabao
Production (MT)
20,524
Incremental production (MT)
Goat
Production (MT)
7,627
Swine
Production (MT)
182,483
Chicken
Production (MT)
85,636
Fishery
Commercial
Production (MT)
103,809
Municipal
Production (MT)
167,228
Aquaculture
Production (MT)
179,850
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
9,760.21
11.29
9,760.21
11.29
9,803.43
11.34
9,846.66
11.39
9,846.66
11.39
9,846.66
11.39
9,148.98
11.65
9,188.24
11.7
9,423.84
12
9,737.97
12.4
9,926.44
12.64
9,926.44
12.64
21,449
925
21,749
300
22,130
381
22,595
465
23,159
565
23,762
600
7,700
114
7,947
115
8,217
117
8,513
119
8,836
120
9,190
121
188,396
5,913
192,164
3,768
196,392
4,228
201,302
4,910
207,341
6,039
213,976
6,635
87,792
3,312
92,708
3,445
97,992
3,583
103,676
3,726
109,897
3,875
116,710
4,030
105,107
1,298
106,431
1,324
107,795
1,364
109,200
1,405
110,647
1,447
112,137
1,490
168,682
1,454
170,180
1,498
171,723
1,543
173,312
1,589
174,948
1,636
176,632
1,684
182,654
2,804
185,627
2,973
188,778
3,151
192,118
3,340
195,659
3,541
199,413
3,754
7.8.2 Strategies and Priorities

Development Strategies
1. Modernization of the sector and transformation of micro-enterprises into small and
medium enterprises using the value-chain approach;
2. Strengthening of the DA-LGU engagement and of convergence initiatives among
rural development agencies, as governed by consistent, transparent and
accountable policies and procedures;
3. Institutionalization of rational and harmonized cost-sharing/counterparting
mechanisms as primary modes of funding programs, projects and activities ;
4. Transitioning of investments towards public goods rather than private goods,
especially in improving rural infrastructure and facilities;
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5. Promotion of organic agriculture and other environmentally-sound practices and

technologies to ensure the sustainability of resources and the safety of communities;
6. Establishment of agricultural communities that are resilient to climatic change
through research and development of climate change sensitive technologies,
establishment of climate-proof infrastructure, and provision of support services to
the most vulnerable and poorest communities; and
7. Institutionalization of technology and market information systems and other
innovations.
Policy and Legislative Agenda
DA-RFU VI will support the following:
1. The National Land Use Act to optimize the use of land based on best uses and the
need to balance economic, environmental and social development objectives;
2. Local ordinances providing incentives for farmers of organic products;
3. Review and, if necessary, updating of the Strategic Agriculture and Fishery
Development Zones; and
4. Inclusion of sugar in the PCICs coverage.
Priority Activities
1. Training of stakeholders on value chain analysis to develop existing focus
commodities and identify potential ones, especially those with competitive advantage;
2. Clustering of farmers and fishers, organizing and federating them through
capability building activities on entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing and
financial management;
3. Harmonization of support services of the DA, DAR, and DENR at the field level
using the ridge-to reef-approach and multi-sectoral and integrated initiatives
towards a more focused and efficient resource utilization;
4. Promotion and support for enhanced community participation and for enhanced
LGU governance capacity as approaches to technology development and locationspecific solutions;
5. Implementation of FMR projects that will link production areas to markets;
6. Rehabilitation and improvement of existing NIs and CISs, restoration of nonoperational systems and development of potential irrigable areas, and prioritization of
the rehabilitation and establishment of SSIPs, the protection of watersheds with
support from the DENR, and the continuous training/capability building of irrigators
associations;
7. Prioritization of the appropriate production, research, and postharvest facilities that
are resilient to the effects of climate change;
8. Enhancement of cost-sharing/counter-parting mechanisms with LGUs and other
stakeholders to finance the construction/establishment and upgrading of infrastructure
facilities;
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9. Conduct of training and other capacity-building initiatives on efficient and

sustainable farm practices; organic agriculture and aquaculture practices; and crop,
livestock and fishery diversification to more climate change resilient crops,
including indigenous crop varieties and animal species;
10. Provision of support services to the most vulnerable communities through the
promotion of climate-change sensitive technologies.
11. Institutionalization and strengthening of the use of information technology for easier
and faster information and feedback exchange to, from and among the farmers and
fishers; the GIS as a tool in planning and decision making; and the e-procurement
system for transparency and cost-efficient and effective resource utilization.

Irrigation
For the plan period, a total of 37,556 has of new service area will be generated, majority of
which will come from CISs. In addition, 42,738has will be rehabilitated. The majority of
these new and rehabilitated service areas will be in Iloilo, Negros Occidental, and Antique,
where the majority of the regions palay rainfed areas are located. A total of 61,313
farmers will benefit from this support.
A total of 901 kms.of FMRs will be constructed/rehabilitated in the region during the plan
period. The largest proportion of the roads that will be constructed will be located in
Negros Occidental, Iloilo and Capiz where wide production areas are located. These roads
will be constructed to link production areas to markets to increase the efficiencies of the
rice, sugarcane, and other vegetable value chains.
Production equipment and facilities will be made available during the implementation of
this plan. These equipment and facilities will mostly be tractors, combine harvesters,
nurseries, biocontrol laboratories, greenhouses, rainshelters, screenhouses, and seed
storage facilities. They will be distributed to DA stations, as well as to LGUs, NGOs, and
POs which can avail of them through a counterparting scheme under which they provide a
set percentage of the equipment or facilitys cost of acquisition. These facilities and
equipment will be distributed mostly in Iloilo and Capiz to support production and
productivity increases in rice, corn and other high value crops.
Postharvest facilities and equipment will also be made available and these will mostly be
threshers and various kinds of dryers. These facilities will be distributed proportionately to
the provinces where rice, corn, mango, sugarcane and other high value crops are produced
and processed. Finally, access to processing equipment and facilities, including
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warehouses, corn mills, rice mills, vegetable processing facilities, cold storage facilities,
and reefer vans will be increased and made available to clusters of farmers and fishers.
Research and development activities in the region during the plan period will be in line
with the regional research agenda crafted by multi sectoral groups. Sixteen R&D facilities
will be upgraded and maintained. The number of research studies conducted will be
increased, these research focusing on production-related technologies, although ample
attention will also be provided on market-related and extension-related researches. In
coordination with the BSWM, DA-RFU VI programmed for implementation soil fertility
assessments and mapping starting CY 2012 to 2013. Likewise, soil/land resource
evaluation studies for SAFDZs/CLUPs will be piloted in some areas in Iloilo and Negros
Occidental. Meanwhile, BFAR has targeted its stock assessment/resource profiling
activities annually during the plan period. There are existing research and development
infrastructures that will be maintained regionwide, such as tissue culture laboratories,
hatcheries, scion gardens as well as clonal gardens.
services will mostly be training activities to be conducted through the ATI on production
and post-production technologies. The said training will benefit the farmers, fishermen as
well as 1,727 LGU technicians and an indefinite number of local farmer technicians. The
latter will augment the existing LGU technicians in the delivery of extension services to
farmers. Training on irrigation management will be conducted through the NIA. Other
training activities include those on good agricultural and aquaculture practices, social
mobilization, provision of farm services, processing, as well as law enforcement.
Continued information services through the quad media will be done. Technology
demonstration farms will likewise be established in various sectors, especially rice, corn,
cassava, high value crops, fisheries, livestock, and poultry.
increase efficiencies in the value chains in organic and traditional rice, as well as in corn,
sugarcane and mango. This assistance will mostly be in the forms of market linkages;
market matching; and conduct of, and participation in, trade fairs. Because the value
chains of the priority commodities (especially sugarcane for muscovado sugar) are located
in these areas, marketing assistance will be focused on Negros Occidental and Antique.
These activities shall target the markets in Metro Manila and other neighboring provinces.
Regulatory Services
Regulatory services in the region for the duration of the plan will be centered on
maintaining Region VIIs foot and mouth disease-free and Avian Influenza-free status.
Moreover, Guimaras province will be maintained as pulp weevil free to make possible the
continued exportation of its mango products to other countries. By 2017, all provinces in
Region VI are targeted to be fin-fish and shell fish disease-free. Moreover, the region is
targeting the islands of Boracay and Guimaras to be rabies-free by 2013 under the Belinda
Gates Foundation Project. Consequently, continued surveillance activities, inspection of
animal farms, blood sampling, strict implementation of quarantine services in all ports of
entry throughout the region, and proper inspection prior to the issuance of licenses and
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clearances will be done as part of the disease and pest control and eradication activities of
the region. The accreditation of fisheries products will be done through BFAR.
The Regional Feed Laboratory, diagnostic laboratories, and soils laboratories will be
maintained and upgraded through the procurement of state of the art equipment and
facilities to ensure accurate laboratory results. These regional facilities serve as testing
laboratories whose results are the basis of the issuance of regulatory certificates,
registrations and licenses.
The region will also be implementing Coastal Resource Management projects specifically
the establishment of artificial reef projects annually. Risk assessment activities will
likewise be programmed yearly.
Policy and Planning
Effective and efficient governance of the agriculture and fisheries sector in the region
demands that appropriate plans are crafted, executed, and monitored and evaluated. For
this purpose, the region shall ensure that the Medium Term Plan, Public Investment Plan,
and the Annual Work and Financial Plan and Annual Plan and Budget Proposals are
formulated when and in the manner required. For the Medium Term Plan and Public
Investment Plan, this would mean a process of formulation for the medium term (in this
case, 2012-2017). On the other hand, Annual WFP and PBP are submitted to the DBM for
the annual budget of the region. Public/stakeholders consultations will be done for
transparency and ensure bottom-up approach in the planning of activities.
Some of the legislation and/or policy changes that would be advocated by the region are
the following:
a. The National Land Use Act, which aims to optimize the use of land based on best
uses and the need to balance economic, environmental and social development
objectives;
b. Local ordinances providing incentives for farmers of organic products;
c. Review and if necessary update the Strategic Agriculture and Fishery Development
Zones; and
d. Inclusion of sugar in the coverage of the PCIC.
Regular field monitoring activities performance and data reviews will be conducted.
Monthly, quarterly and annual reports will be prepared and submitted. Private partnership
in monitoring activities will be tapped through the Regional Agriculture and Fishery
Council.
To ensure increased resiliency to climate change risks, agromet/weather stations will be
established. The PCIC will also introduce innovative risk-transfer mechanisms such as
weather index-based insurance and area-based yield insurance. Rice seeds will also be set
aside as buffer stocks amounting to 10% of the total seed requirement of the region.
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From CY 2012 onwards, foundation, registered and certified seeds of varieties more
adapted to climate change will be produced and distributed. Among these varieties are
submergence, drought and saline-tolerant ones. Organic agriculture demonstration farms
and organic agriculture production farms will also be established to promote various
climate change adaptation and mitigation technologies. Finally, an intensive information
campaign about climate change and agriculture and fisheries will be conducted during the
plan period.
7.8.4 Inputs
This RAFMP, excluding NFA interventions, requires a total cost of PhP 27.8 billion.
The majority of this funding requirement will go to infrastructure and equipment support
(81.4%). The rest is allocated to transitory functions (11.6%), RDE (5.6%), policy and
Table 52.Priority Value Chains, Western Visayas
Livestock and Poultry: 1)
Upgraded/Hybrid live
ruminant 2) Poultry 3) Swine
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Goat traders shipping to

Baguio,Pangasinan,Batangas
and other areas
Improve/upgrade genetic quality

and production thru AI and
natural breeding
Dairy product processing

(fresh milk,etc),fresh and
processed meat
Local Progressive small ruminant

raisers/entrepreneurs
IEC on genetic upgrading and

technology transfer on ruminant
production
Dressed chicken & eggs
Local Hotel/Resorts &

Restaurants
Organize farmers thru LGU and

access to traders for bulk buying
Live hogs and meat products
Local Livestock traders/wet

market
Dispersal program to Provl Govt

employees
Local traders, NFA, export to

other regions especially Cebu,
Bohol, Manila & Mindanao
Improved genetic quality seeds
Rice
Province of Aklan
Market Outlet
Rice producing
provinces of Region
VI
Production and post harvest

facilities and equipment
Irrigation Facilities
Trainings
Conduct of Research and
Demonstration Trials
Pest and Disease Surveillance
and Monitoring
Corn
Iloilo and Negros

Occ.
Improved genetic quality seeds

Local traders, Feed millers

Trainings
Conduct of Research and
Demonstration Trials
Pest and Disease Surveillance
and Monitoring
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Mango
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Market Outlet
Iloilo and Guimaras.
Local traders and processors,

Export to other countries for
processed and fresh fruits
Plant Quarantine Services

Trainings
Conduct of Researches through
NMRDC
Sugarcane for Muscovado

Sugar Production
Antique, Negros Occ.

And Capiz
Local millers and processors,

Local market and Export to
Manila and other countries for
muscovado sugar

Trainings
Conduct of researches through SRA
Marketing Assistance through
attendance in Agri Fairs both
local and abroad
Table 53.Summary of Inputs, Western Visayas

Budget (P000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
389,212 1,120,798 2,256,508 3,569,539 3,718,072 2,016,331

26,959
14,649
175,582
341,090
422,610
735,200
930,700 1,106,670 1,267,420 1,402,580
Other Infra
121,887
320,366
385,148
442,963
438,403
440,133
463,248
8,650
94,158
8,680
13,000
10,032
63,358
64,718
68,140
70,140
77,450
84,450
133,320
137,166
144,906
137,794
157,335
156,743
169,864
1,505
19,334
17,774
16,844
2,980
3,060
3,285
- 2,526,312 3,119,498 3,208,476 3,297,454
NFA warehouses, etc
52,740
55,076
55,965
212,077
55,990
RDE
Extension
NFA Procurement
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
458
900
985
1,190
1,190
1,190
1,190
3,363
3,958
4,363
5,173
5,513
5,888
6,298
12,980
24,141
32,016
39,247
42,502
46,380
49,441
110
21,691
23,640
31,680
38,070
44,460
50,830
118,628
107,627
435,878
414,939
499,301
528,758
528,590
20,198
70,152
59,784
82,657
103,468
118,335
147,258
767,878 2,787,875 3,071,002 3,163,662 3,238,602
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA - Buffer Stocking and Distribution
Total*
1,179,743 2,326,752 4,336,503 5,793,606 6,238,720 4,762,114 3,175,101
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7.9 Central Visayas

Table 54.Central Visayas by the Numbers
Land Area (has)

Population
National
1,489,077
4.96% of national
522,433
5.40% of national
6,800,180.00
7.36% of national
35.50
26.50
1,497,816.81
8.35% of national
35.76
50.52
429,717.04
2.77% of national
3.34
4.34
270,449.00
1.71% of national
2.65
3.62
182,323.07
2.00% of national
2.00
20.25
178,413.00
2.8% of national
0.83
2.55
Major Commodities
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
7.9.1 Objectives and Targets

The region aims to improve the productivity and increase the production of various
commodities in the manner reflected in Table 57.
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Table 55.Productivity Targets, Central Visayas

Commodity
Palay
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Corn (mt/ha.)
White
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Yellow
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Livestock (mt)
Swine ( Pork )
Goat
Cattle
Carabao
Chicken (meat )
Chicken Egg
Duck
HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana ( Saba )
Coconut (copra)
Mango
Sugarcane
sweet potato
Jackfruit
Guyabano
Vegetables
Eggplant
Tomato
Cabbage
Carrots
Ampalaya
Squash
Fishery (mt)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2.96
293,865
3.14
319,290
3.29
338,603
3.33
344,886
3.35
350,489
3.39
359,383
0.88
202,776
0.87
203,683
0.86
204,891
0.86
208,200
0.89
220,194
0.92
232,447
2.30
1,446
2.35
1,515
2.41
1,577
2.46
1,639
2.52
1,703
2.57
1,770
154,363
8,779
25,010
6,549
86,569
43,108
222
157,450
9,060
25,250
6,640
91,417
45,695
224
160,914
9,368
25,497
6,756
96,628
48,528
225
164,937
9,705
25,752
6,898
102,232
51,682
227
169,885
10,074
26,015
7,071
108,366
55,300
229
175,321
10,477
26,286
7,255
115,084
59,282
231
10.08
0.88
5.88
58.05
3.68
3.01
2.08
10.37
0.9
5.99
62.29
3.75
3.2
2.14
10.66
0.92
6.11
66.52
3.82
3.42
2.21
10.95
0.94
6.23
70.76
3.89
3.68
2.31
11.26
1
6.35
75
3.97
3.97
2.42
11.57
4.63
2.86
10.88
6.11
5.13
20.52
4.74
2.93
11.14
6.31
5.27
21.15
4.85
3
11.4
6.51
5.42
21.86
4.96
3.07
11.66
6.71
5.57
22.59
5.08
3.15
11.92
6.92
5.73
23.3
5.2
3.22
12.2
7.14
5.88
24.09
46,559
57,873
152,553
48,115
59,805
157,648
49,722
61,803
162,913
51,462
63,966
168,615
53,263
66,205
174,517
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7.16
4.05
4.31
2.64
7.9.2 Directions and Strategies

1. Focusing on commodities in which the region has comparative advantage. Among
crops, these commodities are rice, corn, mango, and ornamentals & other fruit trees.
Among livestock commodities, these are cattle; carabao; goat; swine & poultry; and
dairy & dairy products from cattle, goat & poultry. Among fisheries commodities,
these are aquaculture & marine fisheries.
2. Proper resource management by promoting mixed-commodity farming, demanddriven production, and appropriate climate-resilient farm practices and the sustained
practice of organic agriculture; focusing efforts on the SAFDZs; and conserving
fisheries resources;
3. Integrated area development through the formulation & execution of AIPs in priority
SAFDZ areas to harmonize investment & climate resilient infrastructure requirements;
the provision of support for capital formation; and the building up of capability to
enhance credit worthiness of rural-based organizations;
4. Use of the convergence approach in sustainable rural development, specifically the
pooling of resources & specialized functions of government instrumentalities involved
in the development of the agriculture sector to achieve desired impacts; the
implementation of participatory program planning & implementation schemes; and
the provision of support to national and regional agricultural priorities;
5. Strengthening of training and extension services by retooling technicians and
upgrading their competencies in climate change-sensitive technologies; enhancing the
capability of ATI as the training arm of the DA; and ensuring the sustainability of the
participation of farmer-volunteers in extension initiatives;
6. Increasing of market access by providing effective market assistance and marketing
support and information, product development services, market intelligence and
participation in product promotion activities and using the value chain framework in
selecting priority commodities and in formulating strategies; and
7. Development of support service institutions by strengthening the planning and M&E
capability of the agriculture sector in the region; building up the capability of
institutions and organizations in support of production and marketing efforts, and
strengthening the capabilities of regulatory agencies.

Irrigation
For the plan period, a total of 33,600 has of service area will be generated (from new and
restored irrigation systems). In addition to this, o total of 6,640 has will be rehabilitated.
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The majority of these new and rehabilitated service areas are located in Bohol and Negros
Oriental. These areas will be planted to rice and vegetable crops like eggplant, tomato,
and pepper. A total of 88,280 farmers will be beneficiaries of this support.
A total of 221 kms of FMRs will be constructed/rehabilitated in the region in 2011-2017.
The majority of these roads will be located in provinces of Bohol and Cebu, and are
expected to boost the value chains in rice, corn, high value crops- vegetables, fruits,
sugarcane, coconut, and livestock.
To support the production efforts, mostly of small producers, access to tractors,
cultivators, power sprayers, pruners, depulpers, granulators cum shredders, and different
mills will be facilitated. Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be
made available under the plan will mostly be seed storage facilities, village-level dryers
and processing plants, milk collection centers, biogas digesters, dairy plants, and abattoirs
and slaughterhouses. These facilities and equipment will be made more accessible to
farmers and fishers in production areas with comparative advantage in rice, corn, high
value crops, cassava, and mango. They will be distributed under counter-parting
arrangements under which the beneficiaries will need to pay for part of the cost of
acquiring them.
Ice plants/cold storage facilities, mariculture parks, tramlines, and feed laboratories will
likewise be distributed to support efforts to enhance productivity in the region.
Research and development activities in the region will consist mostly of the conduct of
production and extension-related researches and the setting up of technology
demonstrations, mainly in the areas where climate change adaptation, organic agriculture,
pest disease surveillance and control, and geo-tagging are promoted.
Extension services provided in the appropriate form and degree will complement R&D in
the region. These services will mostly be the conduct of training and training-related
activities, farmer field schools, and field days. They also include the dissemination of
information through print and broadcast media, focused on corn and cassava production,
coconut preservation, entrepreneurship, and postharvest technologies.
increase efficiencies in the value chains in mango, banana, livestock, rice, corn, and root
crops. This assistance will mostly be in the forms of facilitating the establishment of
market infrastructure such as trading centers and food terminals, as well as conducting
market-related trainings. These will be provided region-wide and shall target markets in
China, USA, and Europe for the priority commodities.
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Regulatory Services
Regulatory services in the region under the plan will be focused on the prevention/control
and eradication of pulp or weevil, fruit fly, rice black bug, witches brown, abaca
bondritop, aflatoxin, brontispa, FMD, AI, and rabies. Toward this end, periodic
surveillance and monitoring, and blood collection and analysis for livestock and poultry
will be conducted. These activities will be conducted mostly in Cebu, Bohol, Negros
Oriental, and Siquijor. Moreover, the accreditation, licensing, certification, inspection,
clearance, permitting, and other regulatory activities of or for producers, breeders,
exterminators, and fumigators will be strengthened. Quarantine stations will also be
established, maintained and/or upgraded to prevent the entry of various diseases into the
region. These stations are in all the provinces of the region, these provinces being islands.
Regional animal disease diagnostic laboratories, feed laboratories/control facilities,
vaccine production laboratories, soils laboratories, the Regional Crop Protection Center,
pesticide analytical laboratories, seed testing laboratories, bio-control laboratories and
plant quarantine laboratories will also be constructed, operated maintained, and upgraded.
Finally, testing laboratories will be maintained by the BFAR, with 3 of these facilities
being programmed for upgrading during the plan period.
Policy and Planning
To improve the governance of the sector in the region, plan and budget proposals and
work and financial plans will be formulated annually. The regional investment plan and
medium-term plan would require a formulation process every six years.
The regions agriculture and fisheries sector will be more capable of coping with the
effects of climate change with the implementation of a number of vital interventions
during the plan period. One of these interventions is the procurement and operation of an
Automatic Weather Station to help the farmers determine the best timing for their planting
and harvesting. The use of varieties that can withstand sudden changes in climatic
conditions, including water supply conditions, will be promoted. Moreover, advocacy
against the use of pesticides, insecticides and the like and for the practice of IPM will also
be intensified.
7.9.4 Inputs
The budgetary requirements for the implementation of this RAFMP, excluding NFA
interventions, total PhP 19.5 billion. More than three-fourths (76.4%) will go to
infrastructure and equipment support. The rest is allocated to policy and planning (8.5%),
RDE (8.5%), transitory functions (5.0%), and regulatory functions (1.7%).
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Table 56.Priority Value Chains, Central Visayas

Priority
Commodity(ies)
Rice
Production Areas
Cebu, Negros Oriental Siquijor.

Domestic or Export)
Domestic market
Construction/Establishment/Repair and
rehabilitation of National/Communal
Irrigation Projects, Small scale Irrigation
Projects, Farm-to-market Roads and
Multipurpose Drying Pavement.
Provision of 4wd tractor and farm
equipment and machineries.
Provision of high yielding and resilient
varieties to climate change.
Improved organic farming technology in
the region.
Establishment of Village - Level Grain
Drying Centers, flat bed dryers, palay shed
and rice mill.
Capability building of AEWs and farmers.
Research on the development through
conduct of adaptation of location - specific
technologies researches.
Establishment of UEGIS of farmers.
Corn
Bohol Cebu,Negros Oriental

Siquijor
Local markets in
Central Visayas
Establishment of Mini Corn Mill, Village

Type Dryer, Hermetic Cocoon, corn mill
and provision of farm machineries and
equipment such as 4wd tractor, sheller
among others.
Capability building/retooling of AWEs and
farmers.
Mango
Bohol, Cebu, Negros Or.and

Siquijor
Local:
Carbon market local
fruit processors,
hotel chains, supermarkets
Export:
Japan, Hongkong,
Australia, USA,
Canada, China,
Switzerland and
European countries
Banana

Siquijor
Local:
Carbon market local
fruit processors,
hotel chains, supermarkets
Export:
Establishment of tramline, cold and seed

storage facilities and provision of the
different processing equipment and
machineries.
Continuous surveillance of mango pest
and diseases in region.
Research and development.
Production support through provision of

improved production technology and
assistance.
Establishment of tramline, cold and seed
storage facilities and provision of the
different processing equipment and
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas

Domestic or Export)
Middle East, Japan,
New Zealand,
Hongkong
machineries.
Cassava

Siquijor
Local:
Carbon market,
San Miguel Corp.
Phil. Starch Corp.
Production support
Market infra
Improved production technology
Processing facilities
RDE
Coconut

Siquijor
Local:
International
Pharmaceuticals
Inc. (IPI),
Bambi Oil, Ludo &
Luym Corp.
Distribution of sodium chloride (salt

fertilizer) for coconut.
Market infra
Improved production technology
Weather - based insurance coverage.
Export:
Japan, Taiwan
Export:
Japan, China,
Australia, USA
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Table 57.Summary of Inputs, Central Visayas

Budget (in (P'000)
Function
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
269,100
815,885
717,389
2,557,395
2,361,403
2,734,400
2,224,545
3,314
25,594
36,235
32,430
37,736
35,281
39,124
55,090
204,500
339,000
150,890
171,340
191,470
209,090
Other Infra
RDE
Research and
Development
66,204
-
142,343
-
101,565
-
314,667
-
314,717
-
360,793
-
351,742
-
94,432
96,756
76,249
97,504
103,920
111,532
177,946
Extension
Assistance
33,679
65,517
92,905
107,507
92,224
102,663
132,145
581
20,061
20,261
28,863
26,322
29,913
34,413
2,489
11,332
9,814
20,243
19,752
21,668
22,482
14,422
1,788
18,316
18,824
Regulatory
24,900
31,783
37,249
46,863
53,922
58,334
68,928
Policy and Planning
95,110
149,115
182,003
219,918
259,509
286,117
316,142
4,497
13,631
14,807
20,172
24,207
28,241
32,276
500
-
500
-
500
-
1,500
-
2,000
-
2,500
-
3,000
-
34,628
65,396
105,881
136,897
142,548
136,204
134,089
Climate Change
19,327
18,679
37,946
41,032
44,385
48,222
NFA Buffer Stocking
1,134,633
1,157,862
1,181,091
1,205,511
1,229,931
659,624
1,629,957
1,715,287
3,725,932
3,596,709
4,085,167
3,725,216
Infrastructure
NIS/CIS
constructed/restored
SSIPs constructed
(including rehab)
Information Support
NFA Procurement
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Total (Net of NFA)
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7.10 Eastern Visayas

Table 58.Eastern Visayas by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
Major Commodities
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Abaca
Production (mt)
Corn
Production (mt)

2,143,169
723,048
4,101,322.00
41.4
National
7.14% of national
7.48% of national
4.44% of national
26.5
1,769,081.84
4.07
11.41% of national
4.34
964,145.00
3.5
6.11% of national
3.62
352,948.50
41.96
1.97% of national
50.52
278,305.78
9.11
3.06% of national
20.25
20326.42
30.56% of national
90215
1.41% of national
Source of data:Land Area NSCB, 2006; Agricultural Area BAS, 2002; Population NSO, 2010; Poverty Incidence NSCB, 2009;
7.10.1 Goals, Objectives and Strategies

Goals
The Eastern Visayas Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan envisions an
agriculture and fisheries sector in Region VIII that is supportive of the national goals of (a)
increased farmers and fishers incomes, (b) food sufficiency by 2013 and beyond, (c) crop
diversification, especially of high value crops and organic products, (d) market
development of crops with revealed comparative advantage, and (e) increased climate
change resiliency index of Philippine agriculture, especially palay, to 0.9.
Regional objectives
The Plan aims to enable the agriculture and fisheries sector in Eastern Visayas to, by 2017:
a. contribute to the gross regional domestic product growth target of 5.4%;
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b. increase rice production to achieve a 150% self-sufficiency level for the region and
to increase the regions share in the national rice output from the current 5% to
6.5%; and
c. attain higher productivity levels for the following commodities of the region.
Table 61. Productivity Targets, Eastern Visayas
Baseline
Palay
Yield in mt/ha
Total production(mt)
Corn (mt/ha.)
White
Yield in mt/ha
Yellow
Yield in mt/ha
Livestock (mt increase)
Carabao
Cattle
Hog
Goat
Chicken
HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana
Coconut (copra)
Pineapple
Mango
Sweet Potato
Coffee
Jackfruit
Abaca
Vegetables
Fishery (mt increase)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
3.45
924,979
3.84
1,039,739
4.08
1,151,628
4.27
1,222,818
4.32
1,253,400
4.35
1,276,227
4.40
1,304,251
1.33
71,228
1.38
78,410
1.89
107,311
1.94
110,375
2.02
114,704
2.16
122,606
3.57
203,099
1.77
12,764
1.77
13,454
2.97
2,977
2.34
39,301
3.46
40,702
3.58
42,045
3.69
43,347
10,838
2,394
101,228
1,448
41,675
10,112
2,307
108,289
1,437
47,723
10,253
2,329
110,455
1,483
50,396
10,433
2,352
112,885
1,534
53,268
10,652
2,375
115,707
1,589
56,358
10,918
2,400
119,178
1,649
59,739
11,202
2,425
122,992
1,715
63,443
9.26
0.88
12.31
5.02
4.58
0.76
11.50
0.41
6.97
9.54
1.00
12.62
5.07
4.61
0.77
11.53
0.43
7.17
9.82
1.20
12.96
5.09
4.64
0.78
11.58
0.44
7.37
10.10
1.40
13.31
5.16
4.67
0.80
12.50
0.46
7.57
10.40
1.60
13.66
5.29
4.70
0.82
13.50
0.48
7.78
10.70
2.00
14.03
5.37
4.75
0.85
15.00
0.50
8.00
69,184
103,871
42,150
71,204
106,904
43,381
73,284
110,026
44,648
75,423
113,239
45,951
78,063
117,202
47,560
80,795
121,304
49,224
Strategies
In pursuit of these objectives, the Plan provides for the implementation of the following
strategies under the priority programs:
Rice Banner Program
a. Expansion of irrigated area;
b. Reduction of post harvest losses;
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c.
d.
e.
f.
Building up of capacities of AEWs and Rice Specialists;

Building up of the capabilities of rice farmers in rice farm management;
Increasing of stakeholders access to real time data, information and knowledge;
Institutionalization of risk reduction strategies in rice (e.g. seed buffer stocking and
risk transfer mechanisms); and
g. Focusing of R&D on location-specific technologies for climate change adaptation
and sustainable organic farming.
High Value Commercial Crop Development Program
a. Increasing of productivity in identified high value crops and the expansion of
consumers access to more affordable and healthy foods;
b. Development/maintenance of the plantation areas of the priority crops and the
promotion of value adding activities;
c. Increasing of support for RDE for high value crops, particularly in organic farming
technologies;
d. Strengthening of partnership/collaborations with LGUs through counter-parting
schemes;
e. Strengthening of partnership with stakeholders in the sub-sector, particularly
players in the value chain; and
f. Organization/strengthening of rural based organizations, peoples organizations,
and cooperatives, and provision of technical assistance to them to improve their
capabilities in agricultural production, processing and entrepreneurship.
Corn Banner Program
a. Increasing of production of quality yellow and white corn as well as cassava to
achieve self-sufficiency in feed crops in support of the livestock and poultry subsector, as well as to ensure a steady supply of white corn grains and cassava and
expand the market for high quality white corn grits to help ease the pressure on rice
demand; and
b. Promotion of productivity-enhancing and cost-reducing measures/technologies to
aid corn and cassava farmers earn better incomes.
Livestock Banner Development Program
a.
b.
c.
d.
Strengthening of disease control and eradication interventions;

Strengthening of RDE activities in genetic resources improvement;
Ensuring of better meat safety and quality;
Development of the capabilities of the players in the various value chains in the
sub-sector; and
e. Strengthening of public-private partnerships.
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Irrigation
For the plan period, a total of 40,691 has of new service area will be generated (from new
and restored irrigation systems), of which 60% will come from CISs and 40% from NISs.
In addition to this, a total of 14,236 has.will be rehabilitated mostly from NISs (66%).
The majority of these new and rehabilitated service areas will be in Leyte, Northern
Samar, and Eastern Samar, where the majority of the regions rice areas are located. A
total of 55,990 farmers will benefit from this support.
A total of 495 km of FMRs will be constructed/concreted in the region during the plan
period. The majority of these FMRs will be located in provinces of Leyte, Samar,
Northern Samar, and Eastern Samar to increase the efficiencies of commodity value chains
(rice, corn, high value crops, livestock and poultry, and fisheries).
Improved access to production, postharvest and processing equipment and facilities will
also be facilitated under this plan. Production facilities and equipment for which access
will be facilitated will consist mainly of organic fertilizer plants, leaf tissue analysis
laboratories, improved hand stripping device, knapsack sprayers, tractors, cultivators,
harvesters, and reapers. Mariculture parks, hatcheries, and sea cages will also be
established, maintained, and upgraded in support of the fisheries sector. All these will be
made more accessible across all provinces to farmers and fishers through LGUs to support
efforts at production and productivity increases in rice, corn, high value crops, livestock
and poultry, and fisheries.
Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be made more easily
available under the plan will mostly consist of drying facilities (e.g., MPDPs and solar
dryers), community-based seedbanks, processing plants, drying equipment (e.g.,
retrofitting of recirculating dryers and flatbed dryers), milling equipment, stripping
machines, and hermetic cocoons. The turn-over of the said facilities and equipment will
be facilitated by the RFU and LGUs to its intended beneficiaries (i.e. farmers, fisherfolk,
community organizations, and other stakeholders) for operation and maintenance.
mostly of production and irrigation-related research. To support these activities, RDE
facilities will be constructed, rehabilitated, upgraded, and/or maintained during the plan
period.
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Extension services will be provided to ensure that the results of the R&D activities in the
region reach their intended users at the right time and in the right form, thus increasing the
adoption rate of these innovations. These services will mostly be training and training-related
activities such as training of trainers, schools-on-air, and farmers/climate field schools, as well
as the dissemination of information, education, and communication materials.
Market assistance will likewise be strengthened in the region to improve the priority
commodity value chains of the region. This assistance will mostly be in the forms of
facilitation in the establishment/maintenance/strengthening of market-related
infrastructures such as trading centers, food terminals, and auction markets. About 5,400
farmers and/or fishers are expected to benefit directly from these services.
Regulatory Services
prevention/control and eradication of crops, livestock, and fishery diseases such as
brontispa, abaca diseases, avian influenza, and seaweeds, fin fish and shellfish diseases.
Inspections, monitoring, and verification/ investigation of reported violations of sanitary
and phytosanitary regulations will therefore be conducted to determine the hazard status in
a particular locality.
Moreover, accreditation, licensing, issuance of certifications, inspection, clearance, and
permitting for transporters (such as for fiber), foreign vessels, domestic shipping, and fertilizer
and pesticide handlers, and other regulatory entities and activities, will be strengthened to
ensure that establishments and products satisfy relevant technical regulations.
Quarantine stations and checkpoints will also be maintained to prevent the entry, establishment
and spread of pests and diseases. Testing laboratories will also be operated, maintained, and
upgraded to provide analytical services to farmers, fishers, and other stakeholders.
Policy and Planning
The region shall ensure that its plans are formulated efficiently and effectively, within a
given timeframe. For Plan and Budget Proposals and Work and Financial Plans, this
would mean an annual formulation, subject to the approval of the Office of the DA
Secretary and then DBM. Meanwhile, the formulation of strategic plans such as MediumTerm Development Plans and Public Investment Plans is undertaken every six years.
Public consultations, dialogues, and other relevant activities will be conducted to ensure
transparency and the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the planning process.
To assure that the abovementioned plans are implemented as designed and desired,
monitoring and evaluation of the regions programs, projects, and activities will be
conducted quarterly, semi-annually, and annually.
During the plan period, the region will implement initiatives aiming at enhancing the
resiliency of the region against climate change risks. As an adaptation measure, the region,
through the PCIC, will develop risk transfer mechanisms, such as weather-based
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insurance, and expand insurance coverage for crops, livestock and poultry, and
aquaculture. Buffer seed stocking of inbred certified seeds will also be conducted to
ensure its availability and accessibility, especially during calamities and emergencies.
7.10.3 Inputs
A total of PhP 20.1 billion would be needed to implementing this RAFMP, excluding
NFA interventions. More than three-quarters of this requirement is accounted for by
infrastructure and equipment support (74.9%) while RDE (13.4%), transitory functions
(8.2%), policy and planning (2.0%), and regulatory services (1.5%) account for the rest.
Table 59.Priority Value Chains, Eastern Visayas
Priority
Commodity(ies)
Banana
Production Areas
Samar

Domestic or Export)
Domestic, Export
In-vitro produced planting

material
Market infra
Domestic
In-vitro produced planting

material
Market infra
South Leyte (
Domestic
Leyte
Domestic
Jackfruit
, Leyte
Domestic, export
Production support
RDE
Market infra
Vegetables
Leyte
Local, domestic
Protected culture technology

RDE
Market infra
Goats (small
ruminants)
Villaba, Matag-ob, Tabango, Calubian,

San Isidro, Leyte
Local, domestic
Stock improvement
Improved production
technology
RDE
Market infra
Coconut
Hernani Cluster (E.Samar)

Catarman Cluster (N.Samar)
Liloan Cluster (S.Leyte)
Tacloban Cluster
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Figure 4. Value Chain Map (Banana) in Southern Samar Banana Cluster
Production
Interventions
Product
First Fry
Actors
1st level
Processing
farmers
processors
Marketing
3
consolidators
(SC Global)
Support
institution
Budget
Final Product
Dev't
Trading
Processors
NABCOR
P20m.
Table 60.Summary of Inputs, Eastern Visayas

Budget (P000)
Function
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
NIS/CIS
constructed/restored
SSIPs constructed
FMRs
constructed/repaired
Other Infra
1,462,521
2,148,495
1,845,813
1,806,030
1,398,415
842,030
505,270
40,672
44,814
100,296
46,200
52,887
52,665
68,069
167,140
114,908
529,340
238,044
353,190
188,513
427,640
231,010
481,420
254,043
533,030
248,219
573,900
274,625
RDE
Research and
Development
Extension
Agribusiness and
Market Assistance
NFA Procurement
Information Support
86,697
156,163
4,132
122,487
258,703
18,527
94,997
280,269
17,346
124,998
256,082
19,267
113,174
312,493
5,171
116,592
269,594
5,235
117,947
273,535
3,178
3,654
4,817
81,173
6,387
100,232
4,883
103,091
4,875
105,950
5,107
5,188
Regulatory
10,666
31,426
56,426
41,119
48,547
51,751
53,399
Policy and Planning
13,460
17,087
30,108
23,696
25,996
28,443
29,042
14,247
375
29,015
375
31,294
455
33,882
375
36,714
375
39,814
375
41,133
375
61,153
14,001
211,845
40,408
477,797
289,478
37,830
488,240
200,286
34,550
497,551
208,210
37,630
507,478
212,281
41,170
518,040
212,457
45,240
2,149,789
3,695,382
3,332,402
3,250,018
2,979,950
2,446,305
2,203,357
Infrastructure
Policy and Planning

Credit Facilitation
Transitional Functions
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking
Total
7.11 Zamboanga Peninsula

Table 61.Zamboanga Peninsula by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
National
1,413,774
5.33% of national
655,670.19
8.12% of national
3,407,353.00
3.69% of national
40.2
26.5
1,713,018.00
11.04% of national
4.59
4.34
622,203
3.5% of national
3.93
3.62
171,125.70
43.3% of national
2.62
2.85
302,644
11.05% of national
362,512
11.4% of national

Major Commodities
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Rubber (cuplump)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)
Commercial Fisheries
Production (mt)
7.11.1 Objectives and Productivity Targets

The specific objectives for the plan period are:
1. Promotion of diversification of production and livelihood opportunities;
2. Completion of the delineation of municipal waters for better fishery resource
management and the harnessing of the active involvement of LGUs in
implementing fishery laws;
3. Priority implementation of improved rural infrastructure and facilities that will be
conducive to rural economic activities;
4. Development of markets and sharpening of regulatory competence;
5. Strengthening of RDE;
6. Increasing of the sectors access to credit;
7. Increasing of food staple production;
8. Increasing of investments and employment across efficient value chains;
9. Reduction of climate change-related risks and vulnerability of natural ecosystems;
10. Development of the capabilities of communities to respond effectively to climate
risks and natural hazard; and
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11. Enhancement of the policy environment and governance of the sector.

Table 62. Productivity Targets, Zamboanga Peninsula
Commodity
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
556,979
3.93
619,461
4.07
685,740
4.32
726,991
4.52
743,798
4.57
759,668
4.61
50,141
3.21
55,655
3.24
56,131
2.96
57,048
2.91
58,147
2.85
59,438
2.88
149,950
1.28
159,458
1.24
209,647
1.56
214,750
1.59
239,494
1.76
250,907
1.83
13.38
5.00
4.44
3.05
3.45
2.88
1.52
2.63
0.92
0.29
13.77
5.15
4.57
3.14
3.55
2.97
1.54
2.69
0.96
0.29
14.17
5.30
4.70
3.23
3.65
3.05
1.59
2.82
1.00
0.30
14.58
5.45
4.84
3.32
3.76
3.14
1.64
2.99
1.06
0.31
15.00
5.61
4.98
3.42
3.87
3.23
1.68
3.10
1.13
0.33
15.44
5.78
5.12
3.52
3.98
3.33
1.73
3.20
1.20
0.33
343,147
141,509
303,910
357,010
147,226
316,188
371,790
153,322
329,278
387,182
159,669
342,911
402,669
166,056
356,627
418,776
172,698
370,892
8,942
684
1,385
772
2,823
945
35
94
9,789
715
1,450
702
2,809
1,067
49
113
9,985
738
1,464
712
2,966
1,131
49
114
10,205
763
1,478
724
3,135
1,201
50
116
10,460
791
1,493
739
3,317
1,279
50
118
10,774
821
1,508
758
3,516
1,369
50
120
Rice
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Yellow
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
White
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
HVCC (mt/ha)
Banana
Pineapple
Mango
Eggplant
Tomato
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Rubber
Coffee
Cacao
Fisheries (mt)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
Livestock (mt)
Hog
Goat
Cattle
Carabao
Chicken
Chicken egg
Duck
Duck egg
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7.11.2 Strategies and Priorities

Support will be focused on commodities counted among the top contributors, flagship
products with export potential, and emerging commodities.
Table 63. Priority Commodities, by Economic Contribution, Zamboanga Peninsula
Category
Commodities
Market
Top Contributors
coconut, rice, corn, rubber, banana, assorted vegetables,

poultry, swine, seaweeds, and marine fish products
Domestic
Flagship with export

potential
rubber, coconut, banana, mango, vegetables, abaca,

seaweeds, and sardines/exotic fishes.
BIMP-EAGA Regions,
China, Vietnam, Korea
Emerging
abaca, calamansi, goat, sheep, ducks, mango (juani)
Local, domestic, export

Irrigation
The area receiving irrigation in the region will increase by 24,101has by the end of the
plan period. In addition, 15,343has of the service areas of NISs and CISs will be
rehabilitated. The largest share in the irrigated areas that will be generated under this plan
will be located in Zamboanga del Sur followed by Zamboanga Sibugay and then
Zamboanga del Norte. A total of 19,911 farmers will benefit from these interventions.
A total of 1,160 kms of FMRs will be constructed, repaired, and rehabilitated in the region
during the plan period. The bulk of these FMRs will be located in Zamboanga del Norte
followed by Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Sur.These roads will support the
value chains in rice, corn, rubber, coconut, banana, mango, vegetables, livestock,
seaweeds, and mariculture fishing.
The production, postharvest and processing equipment and facilities which will be made
more accessible in the region will consist mainly of nurseries, mariculture parks, livestock
stations, threshers, shellers, banana chippers, cassava granulators, coffee dehullers, coffee
depulpers, coffee roasters, silos, vacuum pack seavers, various dryers, various storage
facilities, and milling equipment. These will be distributed in the SAFDZ areas, especially
to FAs/FARMCs, CSOs, cooperatives, NGOs, RICs, and 4-H club members, mainly
through counter-parting schemes.
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RDE activities during the plan period will consist mostly of technology generation,
production research on crops and livestock, technology commercialization, post-harvest
research and development, and extension- and market-related research. These research
activities will mostly be location-specific, particularly those on rice and corn. To support
these activities, some facilities will be established, maintained, and upgraded. Among
these are crops, livestock, and fisheries research facilities/stations as well as tissue culture
laboratories.
Meanwhile, several extension services will be undertaken to complement R&D activities
in the region. These services will be trainings of trainers; e-learning courses; trainingrelated events such as schools-on-air, field days, and farmer field schools; distribution of
IEC materials; grant of scholarships; and the establishment of technology demonstrations.
Marketing assistance will also be provided. This assistance will be in the forms of marketmatching efforts, the conduct of trade fairs, and the gathering and dissemination of market
information.
Regulatory Services
The regulatory services that will be rendered in the region during the plan period will be
geared toward the prevention, control and/or eradication of FMD, avian influenza,
brontispa, seaweeds diseases, fin fish and shellfish diseases, red tide, and bunchy top
disease, among others. Quarantine stations in all airports and ports of entry in the region
will be maintained and upgraded to prevent pests and diseases from getting into the region.
Movements of agriculture products going in and out of the region will be monitored, the
issuance of permits and clearances will strengthened, and the inspection of pertinent
establishments intensified.
Policy and Planning
The DA will spearhead in the formulation of the regions agriculture development plans
and ensure that appropriate related plans are crafted, executed, monitored, and evaluated.
The following plans are being formulated regularly: (a) annual operational plans, (b)
regional expenditure plans, (c) convergence plans, and (d) the RAFMP.
In the formulation of these plans and in the implementation and monitoring of programs
and projects, all stakeholders will be provided the opportunity to fully participate.
Numerous consultations will be conducted.
The interventions that will be undertaken to allow the agriculture and fisheries sector in
the region to cope better with the effects of climate change will include the production of
submergence-tolerant, early-maturing, saline-tolerant, and cool-elevated rice varieties.
These will also include the construction of climate change-adapted infrastructure, and the
provision of crop insurance coverage.
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7.11.4 Inputs
Except for the interventions of the NFA, this whole RAFMPwill cost a total of PhP 18.7
the requirement will be spent on implementing policy and planning (3.2%), RDE (13.9%),
transitory (5.1%), and regulatory (0.6%) interventions.
Table 64.Priority Value Chains, Zamboanga Peninsula
Priority
Commodity(ies)
1. Rice
2. Corn
3. Coconut
4. Rubber
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Market Outlet
Zamboanga del
Sur
Local markets, ZamboangaCity,

Irrigation Facilities, STWs, Hand tractors,
CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, and Manila Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Rice Mills, FMRs,
- milled rice
RD&E,etc
Zamboanga Del
Norte
Local market and Cebu City-milled rice
Zamboanga
Sibugay

CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, and Manila Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Rice Mills, FMRs,
-milled rice
RD&E,etc
ZamboangaCity
Local market -milled rice

Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Rice Mills,
FMRS,RD&E, etc
IsabelaCity
Local market -milled rice

Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Rice Mills, FMRs,
RD&E,etc
Zamboanga del Sur
Local market and CebuCity-corn grits
Tractors, Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Corn

Mills, FMRs, RD&E, etc
Zamboanga Del
Norte
Local market and CebuCitycorn grits

Mills, FMRs, etc
Zamboanga
Sibugay
Local market , ZamboangaCity and

CebuCity -corn grits

Mills, FMRs, RD&E, etc
ZamboangaCity
Local market

Mills, FMRs, etc
Zamboanga del
Sur
ZamboangaCity, CebuCity, and

Cagayan de Oro - -meal & pellets
STW, drying facilities, PHF, nurseries,RD&E
Zamboanga Del
Norte
ZamboangaCity and CebuCity- -meal &

pellets
STW, drying facilities, PHF, nurseries,

FMRs,RD&E
Zamboanga
Sibugay
ZamboangaCity- -meal & pellets

FMRs,RD&E
ZamboangaCity
Hanoi, Vietnam, Rotterdam, Singapore,

Malaysia Korea, QuincyNew York,
USA, and China- -meal & pellets

FMRs,RD&E
IsabelaCity
ZamboangaCity -- -meal & pellets

FMRs,RD&E

Bodega, MPDP, Dryers, Rice Mills, FMRs,
RD&E, etc
Zamboanga del Sur ZamboangaCity and CebuCity- cup

lumps/crumb rubber latex
Processing Facilities, FMRs, Nurseries
Zamboanga Del
Norte
ZamboangaCity and CebuCity -cup

Processing Facilities, FMRs, Nurseries,

RD&E
Zamboanga
ZamboangaCity and CebuCity-cup
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
5. Swine
6. Goat
7. Seaweeds
Production Areas
(Municipalities or
Provinces)
Market Outlet
Sibugay
RD&E
ZamboangaCity
Korea, Japan, and China-cup


RD&E
IsabelaCity
ZamboangaCity- cup lumps
Processing Facilities, FMRs, Nurseries, RD&E
Zamboanga del Sur

CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis
Occidental, and Manila - process
meat/choice cuts
Breeder-Based Animals, Slaughter houses,

weighing scales, bagsakan centers, RD&E
Zamboanga Del
Norte
CebuCity- process meat/choice cuts

weighing scales, bagsakan centers,RD&E
Zamboanga
Sibugay

CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, and Manila weighing scales, bagsakan centers, RD&E
- processed meat/choice cuts
ZamboangaCity
Local market, ARMM, and Manilaprocessed meat/choice cuts

IsabelaCity
Local market - processed meat/choice

cuts

Zamboanga del Sur

Production Support for Breeder-Based
CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, and Manila Animals, RD&E
- increased chevon production
Zamboanga Del
Norte
Local market and CebuCity - increased Production Support-Breeder-Based Animals,

chevon production
RD&E
Zamboanga
Sibugay
Local market, ZamboangaCity,

CebuCity, Cagayan de Oro, and
Manila- increased chevon production
Production Support-Breeder-Based Animals,

RD&E
ZamboangaCity
Local market, ARMM, and Malaysia increased halal chevon production
Production Support-Breeder-Based Animals,

RD&E, Accredited HalalSlaughterCenter
IsabelaCity
Local market - increased halal chevon Production Support-Breeder-Based Animals,

production
RD&E, Accredited HalalSlaughterCenter
Zamboanga del Sur ZamboangaCity, CebuCity, Cagayan de Bodega, Dryers, nurseries, market centers
Oro, and Manila-Dried Seaweeds
Zamboanga Del
Norte
ZamboangaCity and CebuCity -Dried

Seaweeds
Bodega, Dryers, nurseries, market centers
Zamboanga
Sibugay
ZamboangaCity and CebuCity -Dried

Seaweeds
ZamboangaCity
CebuCity, Manila, Ontario, Canada and

China -Dried Seaweeds
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Table 65.Summary of Inputs, Zamboanga Peninsula

Particulars
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
RDE
Extension
Assistance
NFA Palay procurement
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking
Total *
Budget (P000)
2013
2014
2011
2012
2015
2016
2017
116,841
6,016
82,290
35,471
1,492,885
24,960
1,526,885
219,533
399,244
92,900
994,626
151,321
689,997
31,860
792,837
574,109
1,094,090
28,610
829,660
583,714
457,449
65,410
917,341
637,218
872,539
65,160
1,006,732
653,513
15,304
41,296
847,090
63,439
980,984
62,927
23,466
90,278
26,147
101,512
32,211
116,780
37,736
130,110
1,115
950
3,600
2,450
3,536
2,830
3,143
1,196
7,690
1,947
10,562
481,932
5,053
13,250
595,091
2,037
10,757
612,064
2,071
13,017
629,038
2,145
19,231
2,438
33,989
10,825
19,739
400
21,433
24,894
1,080
21,166
27,383
1,000
66,329
36,727
700
69,459
44,124
750
72,923
51,516
800
74,698
58,903
820
44,557
382,739
117,698
363,797
4,353,356
143,718
2,104,705
2,897,173
140,008
517
2,343,036
2,462,071
155,505
568
2,416,852
2,952,764
173,918
625
2,474,829
2,550,398
184,918
688
3,125,387
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7.12 Northern Mindanao

Table 66.Northern Mindanao by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
National
1,405,599
4.69% of national
746,901
7.72% of national
4,297,323.00
4.65% of national
39.6
26.5
2,549,196.79
14.22% of national
46.1
50.52
1,757,164.52
11.33% of national
5.83
4.34
1,702,391.84
18.7% of national
33.04
20.25
585,842.00
3.51% of the national

Major Commodities
Sugarcane
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Rice
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
4.10
Corn
Production (mt)
1,153,239.00
18.08% of national
3.15
2.55
1,117,121.00
24.28% of national
66.87
57.77
1,067,607.50
49.12% of national
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana (Cavendish)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Pineapple
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
49.50
Hog
Production (mt)
136,518.00
7.19% of national
118,789.00
8.77% of national
Chicken
Production (mt)
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The RAFMP for Region X seeks to:
1. Improve food self-sufficiency levels in the region, as reflected in Table 70, by
improving yields and increasing production as reflected in Table 71;
2. Increase farm incomes by 2%-4%; and
3. Reduce farm losses due to climate change.
Table 67.Sufficiency Targets, Northern Mindanao
Commodity
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
72.00
74.22
79.99
86.94
92.61
97.48
101.52
385.83
406.76
427.31
448.31
469.83
491.88
514.65
Vegetables
81.00
88.00
91.00
94.00
97.00
100.00
103.00
Rootcrops(s.potato)
79.00
81.00
84.00
87.00
90.00
93.00
96.00
Carabao
106.33
107.72
109.13
110.56
112.01
113.47
114.96
Cattle
121.82
124.61
127.47
130.39
133.38
136.43
139.56
Goat
198.18
200.51
223.62
237.54
252.33
268.04
284.73
Hog
279.81
297.24
315.74
335.40
356.28
378.46
402.03
Chicken
439.01
483.62
532.75
586.88
646.51
712.20
784.56
Duck
379.34
376.84
374.35
371.89
369.44
367.00
364.58
Chicken Eggs
254.38
275.23
297.78
322.17
348.57
377.13
408.03
Duck Eggs
157.15
156.11
155.08
154.06
153.05
152.04
151.03
79.00
74.22
79.99
96.94
92.61
97.48
101.52
687.00
709.00
732.00
756.00
781.00
807.00
833.00
Rice
Corn(excl. feed reqt) )
Livestock & Poultry
Fishery
Fruits
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Table 68.Production and productivity targets, Northern Mindanao

Commodity
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
577,280
647,051
721,135
780,000
807,928
838,104
843,225
4.01
4.35
4.62
4.84
4.9
4.85
4.88
349,754
318,427
360,828
380,269
400,757
422,444
433,566
1.98
2.56
2.69
2.82
2.97
3.11
3.17
862,454
973,801
1,084,998
1,141,749
1,200,982
1,262,811
1,325,952
4.61
4.46
4.67
4.90
5.14
5.39
5.64
Banana
33
33.7
34.4
35
35.7
36
37
Coconut
(copra)
1.28
1.29
1.29
1.3
1.3
1.31
1.34
Pineapple
Rice
Production
Yield
Corn
White
Production
Yield
Yellow
Production
Yield
HVCC
49.5
50
51
52
53
54
55
Mango
3.9
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.5
Coffee
0.51
0.52
0.54
0.56
0.58
1.2
Eggplant
10
11
Tomato
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
11.7
12
13
14
15
16
18
10
11
12
13
15
7.64
8.02
8.42
8.84
9.29
9.75
10.24
8,326
7,915
8,026
8,166
8,338
8,546
8,769
Cattle
35,224
35,363
35,703
36,052
36,413
36,784
37,167
Goat
6,726
6,464
6,671
6,898
7,146
7,418
7,714
Swine
144,473
142,064
144,906
148,094
151,796
156,350
161,353
Chicken
127,929
130,987
138,323
146,207
154,687
163,968
174,134
1,548
1,604
1,614
1,626
1,638
1,651
1,665
Commercial
47,841
48,798
49,774
50,769
51,785
52,821
53,877
Municipal
47,819
50,892
54,251
57,931
61,979
66,448
67,777
Aquaculture
35,536
37,312
41,178
41,137
43,194
45,353
46,260
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Livestock
Carabao
Duck
Fishery
Production in mt (Livestock and Fisheries),Yield in mt/ha (Rice, Corn, HVCC)
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7.12.2 Strategies and Priority Programs

To spur the desired agricultural and fisheries development for the region, the following
strategies will be followed:
1. Increasing of production and productivity to improve food self-sufficiency;
2. Increasing of farmers and fishers profitability and incomes by:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
reducing postharvest losses,

using farm wastes,
intensifying market-related interventions,
improving accessibility of farms and market centers, and
providing rural infrastructure;
3. Provision of appropriate rural infrastructure, mainly FMRs and irrigation facilities;

4. Strengthening of RDE and the promotion of sustainable/organic farming
technologies;
5. Improving of the capability of the LGUs to perform devolved agricultural services;
6. Improving of the agriculture sectors resilience to climate change through the
development and promotion of climate change-sensitive technologies and the
establishment of climate resilient infrastructure;
7. Intensification of crop and livestock protection through pest surveillance and
intensified regulatory activities; and
8. Preparation of the next generation of farmers by involving the youths in farming
activities

Irrigation
For the plan period, irrigation support through NISs, CISs, SSIPs, as well as alternative
irrigation systems will generate 20,344 has or 31% of the remaining irrigable area of
65,252 has in the region. A total of 13,583 has will be rehabilitated. SSIPs will provide
602 has or 3% of the total area.
The largest proportion of the irrigated areas which will be generated under this plan will
be located in Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, and Lanao del Norte, and
will be planted mostly to palay and high value crops. A total of 80,715farmers will benefit
from this support.
A total of 721 kms will be constructed/rehabilitated under the Mindanao Rural
Development Program and other special programs that will be implemented by the DA.
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The largest proportion of these FMRs will be located in Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte,
Misamis Occidental, and Misamis Oriental. These roads will support the value chains in
rice, corn and other high value crops such as coconut, banana, and vegetables. They will
be provided under a counter-parting scheme with the LGUs.
Production, postharvest and processing equipment and facilities will be provided under
various counter-parting schemes involving LGUs, NGOs and POs. These equipment
include tractors, sprayers, reapers, shredders, threshers, shellers, cassava chippers and
graters, harvesters, drum seeders, corn planters, vacuum pack sealers, and various dryers.
A number of small farm implements will also be provided to facilitate activities in farms.
Facilities such as community seedbanks (lowland and upland), abaca nurseries, palay
sheds, seed strorage, cold chain centers and school gardens (in coordination with DepEd),
will be made more accessible to farmers and fishers following the specific guidelines set
by different programs (i.e. letter of intent, project proposals, MOA, proof of equity for
counterparting scheme).
Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be made available under the
plan will include threshers, reapers, shellers, cassava chippers, cassava granulators-cumshredders, cassava graters, banana chippers, coffee depulpers/coffee dehullers, rice
cutters/harvesters, combine harvesters, mini combine harvesters, seed cleaners, drum
seeders, and moisture meters. Most of these facilities will be distributed in the major
production areas of priority commodities in the region. They will be made available
through a number of counter-parting agreements with the LGUs, NGOs and POs.
Various other infrastructure and facilities will be established and/or maintained to support
various agriculture and fishery activities. An organic/biological fertilizer plant will be
established and maintained to promote organic agriculture. This facility as well as the
existing efforts of various groups and institutions will be complemented with an upgraded
Compost Fungus Activator laboratory to produce trichoderma. On the other hand,
nurseries for high value crops, planting materials production laboratories, and
screenhouses will also be established/ maintained/rehabilitated. For the fisheries subsector, the mariculture parks in Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Lanao del
Norte will be optimized and maintained while another will be established in Camiguin.
mostly of the commercialization of production-related and post-production technologies,
production-related R&D, studies on irrigation and water management, studies on postharvest and processing, market-related R&D, and extension-related R&D. To support
these R&D activities optimally, R&D facilities will be established/maintained. These
include tissue culture laboratories for banana and other crops, clonal gardens for coffee
and greenhouses for vegetables. Hatcheries for tilapia and bangus will be maintained
while a hatchery for blue swimming crab will be established. The outputs of these
facilities will be distributed to farmers and fishers.
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Appropriate and adequate extension services will complement R&D in the region. These
services will mostly be trainings; e-learning programs; training-related activities such as
schools-on-air, field days, educational tours, and AFC days; production and distribution of
IEC materials; study grants; technology demonstrations; and accreditation of extension
service providers, especially for trainings.
increase efficiencies in the value chains in rice, corn, vegetables, banana, lanzones, durian,
calamansi, mango, virgin coconut oil, coconut sugar, other important crops, livestock, and
fisheries. This assistance will mostly be market matching/linking, investment
promotion/fora, agri-aqua fairs/exhibits, and market information generation and
dissemination.
A total of 5,902 individuals and groups of farmers and/or fishers are expected to benefit
from these services.
Regulatory
During the plan period, the DA will focus its regulatory programs/services in the region on
the prevention, control and eradication of the following pests and diseases:
1. On animals - rabies of dogs, foot and mouth disease of cattle/hogs/carabao, avian
influenza;
2. On crops - black bug, bacterial leaf blight, grain bug, stemborer, tungro virus of
rice; cornborer, planthopper, stalk rot, leaf blight of corn; cadangcadang and
brontispa disease of coconut; chlorotic ringspot virus of oil palm; papaya ring spot
virus; mussel scale insects of lanzones; pulp/seed weevil and fruitfly of
mango/fruits; fusarium wilt, mosaic virus and bunchy top of banana/abaca;
diamond back moth, leaf blight, bacterial wilt of vegetable/tomato/potato; and
3. On fishery - taura syndrome and infectious myonecrosis in shrimps, koi herpes
virus disease and spring viraemia in carp/finfish, and marine biotoxin-paralytic
shellfish poison.
Toward this end, the following regulatory services/activities will be implemented:
1. Conduct of inspection and issuance of regulatory documents, such as
plant/veterinary/fishery certifications of good agricultural practices/ good
manufacturing practices/ sanitation standard operating procedures;
2. Registration and accreditation issuances to pre-qualify products for use in
regulated activities or business;
3. Implementation of regular monitoring and surveillance and the operation of a
warning system to prevent the occurrence of pests and diseases, and to assess the
situation should an outbreak come;
4. Intensification of quarantine activities/services; and
5. Building up of the capacities of existing laboratories to better support the
regulatory objectives.
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Policy and Planning

Throughout the plan period, and beyond it, plans would need to be formulated so that the
delivery of agricultural and fisheries services to the DAs clients will be efficient and
effective. These plans are the program plans; AFMP; municipal, provincial, and
commodity plans/roadmaps; the GAD Plan; and public investment plans. AFMPs,
commodity plans/roadmaps and public investment plans are medium-term plans and are
formulated every five or six years, while the rest are formulated annually. In all cases, the
substantial participation of all stakeholders will be assured.
The region will likewise conduct monitoring/evaluation activities using the Results-Based
Monitoring and Evaluation System. This system is participatory in nature, tapping the
Agriculture and Fishery Councils in respective provinces/municipalities/ cities to conduct
monitoring and evaluation activities yearly, with focus on the major interventions that would
be implemented in the region. The DA will also strengthen the DA-LGU Monitoring and
Information System.
Under the plan, the DA will ensure that the agriculture and fisheries sector in the region is
able to meet the challenges posed by the climate change phenomenon adequately. It will,
therefore, establish small-scale irrigation facilities such as the small farm reservoir, drip
irrigation, small water impounding projects. It will also install water pumps and
rehabilitate watershed areas. Moreover, the planting of trees and drought-, saline-, pestand disease-resistant varieties of crops as well as organic farming will be promoted; agrometeorological stations and rain gauges will be established in highly vulnerable and
strategic areas; and mangrove reforestation projects will be implemented. Research on the
development of climate change resistant and adaptable breeds of livestock and poultry will
also be conducted and peoples awareness of the impacts of climate change will be
increased. Finally farmers and fishers will be enjoined to avail of insurance coverage for
crops, livestock and fisheries through the PCIC.
7.12.4 Inputs
The implementation of this whole RAFMP, with the exception of the interventions of the
NFA, will cost a total of PhP 23.7 billion. Almost half of this budgetary requirement will
be spent on infrastructure and equipment support (50.4%). The rest of the requirement
goes to transitory functions (29.4%), policy and planning (16.3%), RDE (3.7%), and
regulatory services (0.1%).
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Table 69.Priority Value Chains, Northern Mindanao

Production Areas
Market Outlet
Rice
Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis

Occidental, Misamis Oriental
Local
Basic Breeder Seed Distribution, Biological Agents Distribution,

Irrigation facilities, Distribution of Farm Equipment and Post
Harvest and Processing Facilities, Soil Laboratory Services,
Research and Extension
Corn

Local and other regions
Community/LGU Seed Production System, Production, Biological

Crop Protection, Post harvest and Processing Equipment
Distribution, Research and Extension
HVCC -Banana-Lakatan,
Vegetables (ampalaya,
eggplant, squash, carrot,
cabbage, sweet pepper, mango
and lanzones)

Seed Production and Distribution, Distribution of Production,

Postharvest and Processing Equipment and Facilities, Provision
of Market/Agribusiness Development Assistance, Regulatory
Services
Livestock - Cattle, Carabao,

Goats

Production Support- Semen Processing for AI Services, Breeder

Production and Distribution, Animal Disease Diagnostic Services,
Pasture Development, Feed Laboratory and Quality Control
Services,
Fisheries (Bangus and Tilapia,

Seaweeds, Municipal Fisheries)

Production and Distribution of Fingerlings, Mariculture Park

Establishment , Coastal Resource Mgt., Regulatory Services, RDE
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Table 70.Summary of Inputs, Northern Mindanao

Function
Budget (P000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
610,434
1,525,383
784,167
1,148,246
1,179,887
1,151,900
136,700
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
9,785
19,071
80,797
7,424
11,776
11,766
11,766
154,837
569,533
638,607
602,340
639,470
681,110
713,640
67,114
157,743
236,644
219,655
172,130
197,976
206,986
18,272
39,284
39,900
40,865
43,383
44,359
43,302
Extension
39,343
57,622
66,691
85,327
86,700
91,948
93,212
3,947
6,818
7,557
4,654
7,597
8,357
6,636
619,645
765,139
786,963
808,787
2,269
8,344
10,844
5,455
6,224
6,511
6,816
1,618
1,799
2,890
3,772
3,926
3,734
15,480
27,455
42,252
55,811
87,420
76,605
78,345
80,414
288
355,899
421,553
509,278
604,933
701,206
798,161
1,850
6,855
7,295
2,394
2,563
2,750
2,955
116,091
141,521
140,904
182,099
198,231
195,895
211,863
2,728
671,204
729,170
886,833
1,018,297
1,168,482
1,292,149
531,203
1,882,759
2,073,498
2,135,424
2,185,565
1,056,031
3,603,327
3,222,830
3,785,760
4,051,722
4,344,340
3,620,079
Other Infra
RDE

Assistance
NFA palay procurement
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Transitional
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA buffer stocking
Total
Formulation of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan, 2011-2017
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7.13 Davao Region

Table 71.Davao by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
National
2,714,059
9.05% of national
758,335
7.84% of national
4,468,563.00
4.84% of national
31.3
26.5
3,804,459.99
41.8% of national
43.57
20.25
2,927,246.74
63.63% of national
60.79
57.77
2,635,866.63
16.99% of national
7.01
4.34
579,464.55
22.01% of national
26.41
14.17
402,811.00
2.55% of national
4.2
3.62
3,506.33
69.85% of national
Major Commodities
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana (Cavendish)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana (Saba)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Cacao
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
0.69
Source of data:Land Area NSCB, 2006; Agricultural Area BAS, 2002; Population NSO, 2010; Poverty Incidence NSCB, 2009;

Objectives
1. To sustain the average annual growth rate of the GVA in Agriculture, Fishery &
Forestry of 1.5% 4.5%;
2. To increase the average rice sufficiency level to 76%;
3. To decrease post-harvest losses in major products; and
4. To minimize the damage to agri-fishery production of climate change.
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Targets
The productivity targets under the RAFMP are:
Table 72.Productivity Targets, Davao Region
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
4.45
4.55
4.81
4.92
5.00
436,913
466,576
510,191
538,108
565,221
1.24
1.24
1.23
1.23
1.23
196,386
197,619
198,116
198,511
199,349
3.26
3.25
3.26
3.20
3.20
61,427
62,404
63,853
64,147
65,393
Cattle
11,747
11,860
11,976
12,096
12,219
Carabeef
12,725
12,903
13,129
13,405
13,740
132,890
135,548
138,530
141,993
146,253
Palay (mt/ha.)
Yield
Production
Corn (mt/ha.)
White
Yield
Production
Yellow
Yield
Production
Livestock (mt increase)
Swine
Goat
7,153
7,382
7,633
7,908
8,208
66,978
70,729
74,761
79,097
83,843
1,544
1,554
1,565
1,577
1,589
23,653
25,072
26,627
28,357
30,342
1,488
1,505
1,527
1,551
1,579
Banana
46.15
47.49
48.81
50.29
51.74
Durian
5.81
6.69
7.72
8.91
10.27
Mango
2.06
2.11
2.18
2.24
1.37
1.45
1.55
1.64
1.75
11.19
11.28
11.38
11.47
11.54
Abaca
0.96
0.99
1.02
1.05
1.09
Cacao
0.74
0.77
0.81
0.81
0.093
Coconut
7.32
7.38
7.44
7.5
7.56
Coffee
0.96
1.01
1.07
1.14
1.2
Rubber
2.65
2.8
2.9
3.07
Commercial
13,810
14,510
15,210
15,910
16,610
Municipal
30,370
31,680
33,030
34,390
35,770
Aquaculture
32,020
33,820
35,770
37,920
40,250
Chicken
Duck
Chicken Eggs
Duck Eggs
HVCC (mt/ha.)
FRUITS
Mangosteen
Pineapple
INDUSTRIAL
Fishery (mt)
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7.13.2 Strategies
The objectives and targets shall be achieved by pursuing agri-industrialization, which
involves developing the agri-based rural industries (MSMEs) and adding value to
agricultural export products. The pre-requisites that have to be satisfied for the agriculture
and fisheries sector to evolve into an agro-industrialized one are: efficient logistics
support, increased technology adoption, and development of the agro-ecozones and
SAFDZs. Agri-industrialization shall be complemented by improved local capacities for
agricultural development as well as reduced vulnerabilities to disaster risks, climate
change impacts, and uncertainties brought by international market conditions. Agroindustrialization shall be pursued in a sustainable framework for long-term sustainability.
1. Attaining sustainable agri-industrial development by achieving efficiency in
logistical support to production, increased market connectivity, and improved
access to rural infrastructure services; as well as by increasing technology
adoption.
2. Developing the agro-industrial economic zones and SAFDZs which will facilitate
closer linkage between the agriculture and industry sectors and between local
production and national and international markets; and
3. Improving capacities for agriculture sector governance by increasing investments
in the agriculture sector, particularly at the sub-national level, fully implementing
the CARP, reducing vulnerabilities to disaster risks and climate change impacts,
increasing resilience to international market conditions, and upscaling the
implementation of the industry clustering strategy.
7.13.3 Priority Programs, Projects and Activities

Efficient Logistics Support
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Construction and improvement of farm-to-market roads;

Integration of irrigation and water supply services;
Construction of municipal fish ports along the eastern seaboard;
Provision of postharvest facilities;
Provision of information communication technology services in agricultural areas;
Improvement of electricity supply and conversion of agricultural wastes to
renewable energy; and
7. Establishment and operation of the Davao Food Exchange Complex and its
provincial components.
Increased Technology Adoption
1.
2.
3.
4.
Use of the Unified R&D Framework;

Implementation of the High Value Crops Program;
Implementation of the Livestock Development Program;
Implementation of the Aquaculture Development Program;
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5. Promotion of energy-efficient farming systems and of organic and environmentfriendly technologies;

6. Training and certification of agricultural technicians and operators; and
7. Promotion of agri-fisheries education system.
Developed agri-ecozones, agri-industrial corridor, and SAFDZs
1. Provision of infrastructure support to agro-ecozones and the agri-industrial
corridor;
2. Development and promotion of SAFDZs;
3. Identification of rice cluster areas; and
4. Updating and implementation of the Davao Region Industry Cluster Plan.
Improved agriculture sector governance
1. Conduct of a disaster risk assessment for the agriculture sector;
2. Implementation of crops and livestock insurance and other risk-transfer
mechanisms;
3. Improvement of credit facilitation services;
4. Maximization of the benefits of convergence initiatives of DA, DAR, and DENR;
5. Provision of incentives to financing institutions lending credit to high-risk
agricultural crops and livestock;
6. Implementation of measures to maintain an FMD- and avian-flu free zone;
7. Implementation of the Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise Development Program;
8. Full implementation of the CARP; and
9. Implementation of a Technical Skills Development Program in the rural areas.
Reduced risks from climate change
1. Implementation of the ecosystem-based management approach to agricultural and
fisheries production systems;
2. Implementation of the Davao Gulf Management Program;
3. Implementation of conservation efforts;
4. Development of climate-responsive technologies in production systems;
5. Establishment of climate-proof agricultural infrastructure;
6. Rehabilitation of watersheds and fishing grounds;
7. Promotion of climate-responsive fishing technologies and products; and
8. Conduct of a disaster risk assessments of agricultural areas integrated in the
Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plans and Investment Programs.
Reduced trade export barriers and increased resilience to international market
conditions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Implementation of certification programs for agri-fishery products;

Implementation of Halal international certification systems;
Promotion of product diversification;
Promotion of multiple cropping systems / programs; and
Increasing of the countrys share of International agricultural and fisheries markets.
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Irrigation
A total of 31,767 has of new service area will be generated. The largest proportion of this
area will be located in Davao del Norte and will be areas planted to rice. A total of
22,136farmers will benefit from this support. The SSIPs will irrigate a total of 3,018 has
benefiting 2,951 farmers.
A total of 960 kms of FMRs will be constructed and rehabilitated in the region during the
plan period. The majority of the FMRs that will be constructed will be located in Davao
Oriental, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao City. These roads will increase the
efficiencies of the cacao, corn, rice, coconut, mango, durian value chains by providing
easier and cheaper access to inputs and markets.
Access to production, postharvest and processing equipment and facilities will also be
facilitated under this plan. The production equipment and facilities that will be provided
will consist mostly of swine breeding stations, animal production centers, and artificial
insemination centers which will be made more accessible to farmers and fishers through
counter-parting schemes involving LGUs and, when warranted, NGOs and farmer and
fisher cooperatives. These will be distributed mostly in Davao City, Davao del Norte, and
Davao Oriental to support production and productivity increases in hog, goat, cattle,
chicken and duck.
Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be made more accessible
will mostly be various dryers, combine harvesters, different mills, warehouses, cassava
granulators, and shredders. They will support the value chains in rice, corn, cassava, and
vegetables and will be accessible to beneficiaries also through counterparting schemes
involving LGUs and producers groups.
Research and development will focus on production-related researches on rice; studies on the
establishment, maintenance and development of post-harvest and processing technologies; the
development of a biological control strategy against Foc Tropical Race 4(TR4), and
adaptability trials of somaclones against Fusarium (Foc). To maximize the benefits from these
activities, the region will maintain four research extension facilities, the Research Outreach
Stations and three units of greenhouses. Two other greenhouses will be rehabilitated.
Appropriate and sufficient extension services will ensure that the results of R&D activities
are fully taken advantage of in the region. These services will mostly be technology
demonstrations, trainings, Farmers Field Schools, information caravans, and the
maintenance of information and communication systems.
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Market assistance will likewise be strengthened in the region, mainly to support the value
chains in banana, coconut, cocoa, rubber, abaca, pomelo, durian, and coffee. This assistance
will mostly be in the forms of forging of market linkages, conduct of agri-aqua fairs, putting
up of exhibits, as well as the strengthening of the operations of food terminal and trading
centers. These activities shall target the international markets like those in Japan, Korea,
China, the Middle East, and European countries for the priority commodities, mainly
cavendish banana. As for the local market, Region XI sells its cardaba, lakatan, and
latundan in Manila and Cebu. It will exert efforts to exploit other markets.
Regulatory Services
control and eradication of rabies and Banana Fusarium Wilt disease. Consequently,
surveillance monitoring will be intensified while the accreditation of nursery owners and
the inspection, permitting and clearance of domestic and foreign vessels will be
strengthened. Quarantine stations and checkpoints will also be maintained. These stations
are located in Sasa, Davao City and Mati, Davao Oriental. Finally, different laboratories,
such as soil laboratories, the Regional Animal Disease Laboratory, and vaccine
laboratories will be maintained and, if needed, upgraded.
Policy and Planning
For a more effective and efficient delivery of support to the agriculture and fisheries sector
in the region, DA RFU XI will ensure that the Regional AFMP, Annual Plan and Budget
of the Banner Programs, Annual Investment Plan and Annual Budget Proposal are
reviewed, revised and/or formulated when and in the manner required. It will likewise
monitor and evaluate its programs and projects to ensure that these are truly responsive to
the needs of their beneficiaries in the most efficient and effective manner. In both
planning and monitoring, the full and meaningful participation of the sector stakeholders is
ensured and streamlined.
The region is vulnerable to natural hazards and disaster such as the La Nia and El Nio
phenomena. Major crops such as rice, corn, banana, coconut, sugarcane and even livestock
are highly sensitive to these climatic conditions. Thus, agrometeorogical stations will be
established per province to determine rainfall volumes, humidity, temperature, and other
information related to climate. Once disseminated, these information will help farmers
decide better what crops to plant on a particular season. Community seed banks will also be
established to secure the availability of seeds of the required varieties in the event of
disasters and calamities. Established seed banks have been identified throughout the region.
Commercialized varietal seeds for climate change adaptation will likewise be distributed to
ensure that production of rice and other staple food will continue despite adverse conditions.
Finally, buffer stocking operations will be conducted to ensure that any locality could
immediately purchase seeds in the required quantities in case of emergency.
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7.13.5 Inputs
A total amount of PhP 21.6 billion will be needed to implement this RAFMP, excluding
NFA interventions. The great majority (79.8%) will be allocated for the provision of
infrastructure and equipment. The rest will be spent on the fulfillment of transitory
functions (12.3%), the conduct of RDE activities (5.8%),policy and planning (1.6%), and
regulation (0.6%).
Table 73.Priority Value Chains, Davao Region
Priority
Commodity(ies)
Cacao
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Compostela Valley Province;
Davao City; Davao Norte,
Davao Oriental, Davao Sur
Market Outlet
Consolidators (Subasta cocoa

Farmers ; Puentespina Farms);
Mars Chocolate
Fermentation, Drying &

Processing Facilities; Beangrading Tool Kit
Main importing countries of cocoa

are China, US, Europe, Thailand &
Malaysia
Expansion of production areas

through planting and replanting
Nursery development with
superior varieties
Improvement of FMR
Improved linkage between
smallholders with major buyers in
the mkt chain.
Coconut
Compostela ValleyDavao
Oriental;, Davao City
China, Korea (coco fiber/ coco coir)

Copra meal (Australia, Japan,
Korea) Desiccated coconut
(Australia, Israel Germany,
Netherlands, New Zealand, USA)
Copra dryers, decorticating

machines/plants, processing
facilities for virgin coconut oil,
desiccated jam, coco charcoal
powder & others
Coconut Acid Oil (China) Coconut

chips natural (Denmark) Coconut
charcoal powder (Japan)

Maintenance of seed farm
Training on pest control;
technology-based training and
quality copra production
Improvement of FMR
the mkt chain.
Durian
Davao City
Major destination: Indonesia,

Malaysia & Singapore
Processing facilities, cold storage

facilities ( in collaboration with
LGU, NEDA & DTI)
Domestic Market: Manila, Palawan,

Zamboanga, Cebu, Nueva Ecija,
Bohol, Bacolod & Iloilo
Training on pest control; food

handling & safety measures
Promotion of durian consumption
the mkt chain.
Improvement of FMR
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Mango
Davao Sur;, Davao Oriental
Market Outlet
Major destination: Hongkong &

Japan
Processing facilities for dried

mango, mango jam, mango
concentrate, mango puree
Existing Markets: USA, Singapore,

Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand,
Canada
Support on the small farm

equipment such as power
sprayers.
Domestic: Manila, Zamboanga,

Cebu, iloilo, Bohol, Bacolod
Training on pest control, FFS;

food handling & safety measures
the mkt chain. Link with DOST &
DTI
Improvement of FMR & bridges
Coffee
, Davao Oriental; Talaingod,

Davao del Sur;, Compostella,
Valley Davao City
Existing market for coffee beans:

Thailand & Korea
Processing plant, warehouse

Provision of seedlings, technology
transfer
and rejuvenation
Improvement of FMR
Access to credit
Cattle and Carabao Davao City
Enhancement of forage and

pasture development and
promotion of ensiling
Regulate land conversion (legislative functions)
Improve Animnal Health Care
Program
Strict implementation of
quarantine laws
Establish & improve facilities of
diagnostic lab.
Promote insurance for animals
Coordination with Brgy. Official &
PNP
Conduct info dissemination and
improve technology transfer
through trainings and seminars (
e.g. promote A.I.)
Strengthen farmer
organizations/cooperatives to
make them viable for financial
assistance.
Develop data bank system
Tap private-public partnership to
upgrade existing slaughterhouses.
Capability building
Intensify monitoring and
surveillance of illegal slaughter
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Maintain and expand hatcheries

Tilapia
Davao City; Davao del Norte;

Davao Oriental; Compostella
Valley
BFAR should provide upgraded

fingerlings in terms of breed or
strain; Adopt natural feeding and
water fertilization ;Provision of
fishery insurance
Conduct research on fast growing
strain
Trainings on fish processing
Promotion on processed tilapia
establishment of freshwater
nurseries to far flung areas
Access to funding institution
Provision of post harvest facilities;
conduct training on post harvest
technology
Improve information dissemination
on various marketing strategies
Observe and improve packaging
techniques
Seaweeds
Compostella Valley; Davao

City
IEC at district level

Expansion of production area
Introduce better handling &
storage technologies
Conduct training on seaweed
culture and processing
Financial support from
government institution
Processing and Post-harvest
facilities, Dryers etc.
Organize Cooperatives
Provision of mooring blocks
Rubber
Compostella Valley; Davao

Oriental
Encourage private sectors to

establish rubber nurseries to be
assisted by the LGU
Strengthen the extension
enhancement program through
FITS Center
Increase efficiency through
adoption of new technologies
Establishment of Crumb Rubber
Processing Plant
Encourage farmers to be
members of cooperatives (e.g.
RIMFABEMCO and
SACARBEMCO)
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Establish clonal garden/
Encourage farmers to establish
rubber nurseries and be
accredited; Expansion &
maintenance certified clones
Promote common service facilities
with support from traders
Reinforce cooperative movement
at local level
Disseminate & promote
homegrown technologies
developed by private individuals
and institutions
Improved market visibility by
creating product trademark
Develop technology in the
preservation & utilization of rubber
wood; packages of technologies in
nursery management, propagation
technologies, tapping systems,
methods of yield stimulation &
processing techniques
Develop &evaluate rubber-based
farming
Expansion of production area
Improvement of FMR
Organize smallholders to improve
their bargaining power.
Improved linkages between
smallfarmers or smallholders with
the major buyers & players in the
marketing chain
Improved market & price
information
Entrepreneurial training
Strengthen cooperatives
Establishment of Demo
areas/sites
Techno transfer on proper crop
management & related activities
Provide show window on GAP
Provision of quality materials for
new rubber clones through plantnow-pay-later program
Access to credit contract
marketing
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Abaca
Market Outlet
Compostella Valley
Production of virus free planting
material
Shift new farming system with
extensive intercropping Improve
ongoing technology
Improve ongoing technology
transfer program
at local level
Introduce better handling &
storage technologies
EO 502 ( Limits/ prohibits umbak
trading)
Introducing grading for umbak/
formalizing umbak trade
Streamline grading system
Introduce new varieties with more
consistent grades
Enhance cooperative structure
Increase & improve extension
program
Increase support for handicraft
industry
New Product development
Promote high yielding varieties;
improve on going Technology
transfer Program/ Expansion on
the production area
Introduce better handling, PostHarvest facility and Storage
technologies
Improvements of farm-to-market
road (Cabuyoan-MascaregBucana Road Section)
Improved linkages between
smallfarmers or smallholders with
the major buyers & players in the
market chain
Improved market & price
information
Shift to new farming systems with
extensive intercropping.
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Banana
Market Outlet
Davao del Norte; Davao

Oriental; Compostella Valley
R&D (including IEC, technology
transfer): varieties that are high
resistant to pests and diseases;
bugtok and other banana
diseases
Provide postharvest technologies
to small farmers
Review policies and regulation
(e.g. JPEPA)
Produce organic fertilizers;
distribution of suckers
Access to financing institutions
plant-now-pay-later program
Rehabilitation of FMR
FFS on Banana Integrated Pest
Management
Seminars/Trainings on Banana
flour making
Tap private investors to pur up
processing plant and concerned
agencies in BFAD compliance
Establish Village-type facility and
processing plant
Road repair
Introduce proper handling and
storage system streamlines
grading system
Increase and improve extension
program
Adoption of new technologies to
increase efficiency
Promote value thinking by
agencies, government and lead
companies
improve on going technology
Combine tradition, health and
convenience into high quality new
food solutions produced efficiency
Develop local markets
Corn

Expand use of High Yielding

Varieties (HYVs)
Adaptation of Cost-Reduction
Technology
Intensify support on Farm
Mechanization
Expand production areas
Commercialization of Corn Cob
Charcoal
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Production of Organic Fertilizer
using Corn Cobs
Direct linkage with Industrial
Users-Initiate direct marketing and
forward contracting between corn
producers, processors, feed
millers and livestock raisers to
minimize the gap between corn
producers and end-users
RD Production of Pest Diseases
resistant/tolerant varieties
Adopt improve ongoing
technology transfer program
increase and improve extension
program
Tap communities to educate on
recycling farm waste
Increase government support to
handicraft industry and organic
farming
Training/seminars and conference
on recent applicable farming
technology in order to cope up
high demand of supply
Encourage the farmer to produce
their own seeds
Practice the contouring system/
SALT
To avail loan to the bank or
lending institution and and avail
also in Crop insurance; provision
of credit facilities
To promote multi-storey cropping
system among farmers
Provide technical assistance &
seminar/training for the
prevention of occurrence of
aflatoxin
Counterparting of MLGU, PLGU &
DA
Establish market market linkages
Training on corn production and
management;
enhancement/upgrading corn
production technology
Introduce the importance of
proper post production technology
for the attainment of quality grains
and high yield as a result of the
reduction of waste grains
Establish post-harvest facilities
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
such as solar dryer/ multi-purpose
drier pavement (MPDP); Miniwarehouse; mini-corn mill and
shellers
Provide financial assistance to
Pos and encourage them to group
marketing
Establishment of Demo
areas/sites
Techno transfer on proper crop
management & related activities
Provide show window on GAP;
adoption of GAP
Vegetables

Seed Subsidy; Consolidated

buying of seeds from group of
farmers;
Strengthening of People's
Organization and encourage to
market produce
More farmer-owned demo farm
Updating of DATA
Production of Organic fertilizers
Shallow Tube Well; Shredding
Machine
Empowerment of Bagsakan
Centers in transforming it to Food
Terminal
Establishment of green houses
Improve technology transfer
Increase and improve extension
program
Improve the capabilities of
middlemen to access market
Increase efficiency in adoption of
new technology
Construct/Improve access to
production areas
Introduce better post harvest
handling
Enhance cooperatives and
strengthen their structure
Increase gov't. support in
marketing of raw materials
Operationalize MAETC (Municipal
Agri-Enterprise and Trading
center)
Strengthen the extension
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Enhancement program through
FITS Center
Establishment of Control
Checkpoints
Planting of pest & disease
resistant vegetable species
Adoption of organic farming
technology
Construction of trading post
Conduct product matching
Rejuvenation
Planting of high yielding variety
Establishment of nursery (LGUMAGRO & Farmers)
Tap concern agencies for the
provision of depulping facility
Shift new farming system with
extensive intercropping
Encourage farmers to adopt
proper PH handling/procedures
Introduce vegetable
preparation/preservation
techniques to POs (RICs, etc.)
Strengthen farmers
association/organizations
Planting of pest & disease
resistant vegetable species
Adoption of organic farming
technology
Conduct product matching
Rice/Organic Rice

Production of locally-produced
organic fertilizer; Organic
pesticide (IPM); Promotion of
Organic farming
Rehabilitation of Irrigation
Facilities
Linkage to government financial
institution
Availment of Farm Mechanization
Program of DA; Crop Insurance
Synchronous planting/Observe
biodynamic planting schedule
Utilization of organic farming
technology
Introduction of submergence rice
variety
Availability of Master Drainage
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Plan & Construction
Construction of FMR & small
bridges
Availment of Modern/Appropriate
postharvest facilities
Increase Budget for support price
Continue PALGO
Minimize/Regulate importation
Tap NGA/NGO for value adding
technology
Introduce root crops as rice
substitutes
Composting to promote organic
fertilizer production out of rice
straw
Provision of composting facilities
(vermin & shredder)
Establishment of Trichoderma
Production Center
Strong technical support from DA,
IRRI, PhilRice for R&D of modern
& improved varieties
Provide registered seeds to seed
cooperatives
Availability of seed inspectors as
LGU counterpart for the program
accessibility of BPI laboratory in
Davao City for seed certification
Government buy from the coops
the seeds needed for the subsidy
program in Davao Oriental and for
some municipalities I Davao
Oriental and Region 11, also they
sell to Ais, Fas, and LGUs in
Mindanao, Luzon, and Visayas
Use high yielding varieties
Disseminate & promote home
grown technologies developed by
private individual institutions
Seed subsidy program Post
Harvest facility rehabilitation of
irrigation
Provide technical assistance &
trainings/seminars
Adopt the technology of Seed
Banking & improve the technology
of Seed Growers
Preserve the Watershed Areas &
regulate the mining activities
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Counterparting of MLGU, PLGU &

DA
Provide Mechanical Dryer to NFA
Establishment of
electric/Mechanical Dryers in NFA
Warehouses
PLGU to legislate policies on
minimum buying price for fresh
palay by traders
Bangus (Milk Fish)
Davao City; Davao Oriental;

Compostella Valley
Acquisition of feeds supply

through
Financial institution in a form of
loan to feed suppliers
Assistance from PCIC
Training on fish deboning
Establish feedmill and bangus
hatcheries and nurseries
Disseminate and upgrade fishing
and post harvest technologies
Establish fish landing
Implementation of GMP and
sanitation
Information dissemination of
technology transfer on fish
processing
Improve processing technology;
prepare storage facility
Organize women group for
marketing
Regular Monitoring of prices and
quality
Strict implementation of fishery
laws
Strengthen MFARMC
Strengthen Bangus growers
association/coop
Establishment of nurseries in the
locality; Fosh Hatcheries linkaging
with other players (i.e. feed miller,
hatcheries, operators, fertilizer
dealer)
Enhancement trainings for bangus
production
RDs for biological and
environmental aspects for bangus
Strengthen MFARMCs
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Promotion of proper handling and
management practices
Establishment of post-harvest
(fertilizer, processing plant)
establishment of processing plant
Streamline and rationalize
marketing conditions and
transportation agreements
Monitor the food quality and safety
of processed bangus
Regular Monitoring of prices and
quality
BFAR should provide breeders
provide trainings on hatchery
production; maintain hatcheries
Provide additional trainings on
bangus production; Adopt
alternative feeding scheme;
Provision of fishery insurance
Intensive market promotion
Buffalo&Goat

Oriental
(Meat and Dairy)
Intensify AI program for local

breeders
Establishment of forage nurseries
and seed bank
Rehabilitate and operationalize
existing LGU-owned feedmill
Strengthen of existing
organizations
Conduct advance training on dairy
Orgnize dairy buffalo
raisers/farmers; Organize goat
raisers into a cooperative
Tie-up with PSWD-Pantawid
Pamilya Program
Accredit Davao Del Norte Credit
Surety Fund
Tie-up with National Dairy
Authority (NDA); Department of
Science and Technology (DOST);
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA); PVO and DA for research
and development training
Establishment of AA slaughter
house
Organize City/Municipal livestock
handler association
Upgrading locally breed/
provision of quality breed
Conduct periodic immunization
and vaccination
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Adoption of improved
management prices
Provision of milk production
technology to goat raiser
Educate/train goat raisers on goat
milk processing
Increase goat population in the
locality
Swine
Davao Oriental
Establish feedmill and bangus

hatcheries and nurseries
Disseminate and upgrade fishing
and post harvest technologies
Establish fish landing
Implementing of GMP and
sanitation
Encourage buyers from outside
the locality
access to financing institutions
Tap Private firm to venture swine
production
Seminars/training on swine
production and animal healthcare
& management
Capacitate investors (individual &
PO raisers)
FMR Rehab
Establish quarantine measure
Skills training in butchering
Hire and train meat inspectors
Craft Ordinance to support meat
inspection service
Establishment of accredited NMIS
food processing center
Provision of meat van,
Law Enforcement (Bantay Karne)
improve on going technology
technology transfer for the
program
upgrading livestock
establishment of double "A"
slaughterhouse
conduct training for meat
inspector
regular monitoring of prices,
coordinate with AMAD office
Duck/Chicken Egg
Davao del Norte
Capability building
Technology on Duck production,
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
processing, production and
handling
Enhance marketing
strategies/packaging
Issuance of Shipping permits
Chicken
(Broiler/Layer)
Davao Oriental
Access to financing institutions

Tap private firm like B-Meg,
Vitarich, etc.
Seminars/Training on Poultry
production
Rehabilitation of FMR
Establishment of poultry dressing
plant,
Hire and train meat inspectors
Conduct seminars on food safety
and proper handling
Provision of meat van; Operation
of cold chain facility (LQF)
Marine Fishing
Davao Oriental
Establishment of payaw
Law enforcement
Procurement of fishing vessel with
ring net food preservation
Fish processing technology
establishment of storage facilities
Linkage with AMAD office
Hito
Compostella Valley
Include in the priority program of

BFAR; Provide trainings on
hatchery production; Maintain
hatcheries; Hito production
Adopt alternative feeding scheme
Pangasius
Compostella Valley
Include in the priority program of

BFAR; trainings on hatchery
production; Maintain hatcheries
Promotion for pangasius culture
Establishment of processing
facilities
Conduct research to improve
technologies for hatcheries
Trainings on fish processing
Promotion on processed
pangasius
Fresh water Prawn
Compostella Valley
Trainings on hatchery production;

maintain hatcheries
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
Provide training on freshwater
prawn production
Promotion for freshwater prawn
culture
Intensive market promotion
Mariculture
Compostella Valley

Adopt new technologies on
durable cage assembly and
mooring system
Lower the production cost and
look for other market outside the
region
Prawn
Compostella Valley
Provide trainings on hatchery

production; maintain hatcheries
Marine Fishing
Davao Oriental
Establishment of payaw
Law enforcement
Procurement of fishing vessel with
ring net food preservation
Fish processing technology
establishment of storage facilities
Linkage with AMAD office
procurement of fish car for
delivery
Watermelon
Davao Oriental
MRDP to extend funding for

melon production to famers'
association engaged in the
venture
Mudcrab
Davao del Norte
Funding from DA & BFAR for

establishment of hatcheries
Oil Palm
Compostella Valley
Construction of FMR on strategic

areas
Mangosteen/
Guyavano
Davao del Norte
Availment of postharvest facilities

Availability of price support and
technicians on call for pest and
disease control
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Table 74.Summary of Inputs, Davao Region

Budget (P000)
2011
2012
719,918
971,538
6,441
17,926
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
628,220 2,476,419 1,401,394
758,587 1,091,970
149,105
213,011
167,461
170,769
171,862
320,437
578,444 2,310,735
263,580
290,470
331,455
338,875
Other Infra
228,987
417,281
389,583
877,889
513,809
959,901
494,195
5,100
81,590
35,100
21,140
NFA
RDE
13,357
18,537
29,099
26,164
21,054
20,321
17,121
Extension
71,237
151,632
101,976
174,995
178,088
189,716
206,086
1,530
4,162
4,722
4,399
5,026
5,210
6,086
913,577 1,128,088 1,160,264 1,192,441
562
1,050
1,611
825
825
825
825
12,419
12,470
18,087
18,412
19,970
20,629
22,489

Assistance
Palay Procurement (NFA)
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
18,701
19,932
25,098
76,953
57,484
54,784
55,832
Credit Facilitation
242
700
383
505
601
694
790
Information Support
924
10,790
3,666
2,738
2,969
2,974
3,231
158,681
248,740
362,518
322,157
351,290
332,088
336,948
36
28,096
52,650
114,497
130,081
105,421
109,949
790,670 3,750,044 4,159,359 4,287,841 4,390,567
Transitory
Production Support
Climate Change
Buffer Stocking/Rice Distribution
(NFA)
Total *
1,553,471 2,481,298 4,077,452 4,572,543 3,140,522 2,953,372 2,856,257
*Excluding other infra, palay procurement and buffer stocking/rice distribution of NFA
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7.14 SOCCSKSARGEN
Table 75.SOCCSKSARGEN by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
Regional Total/Average
National Comparison
1,437,274
4.79% of national
775,309
8.02% of national
4,109,571.00
4.45% of national
35.7
26.5
1,185,196.00
7.51% of national
3.59
3.62
1,064,447.99
16.69% of national
2.62
2.55
1,043,811.31
11.47% of national
35.69
20.25
864,270.35
5.57% of national
4.67
4.34
813,250.64
37.49% of national
34.95
37.05
27,761.44
29.4% of national

Major Commodities
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Pineapple
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Coffee (dried beans)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
1.09
Rubber (cuplump)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
149,964.88
38% of national
4.45
Sources of data: Land Area NSCB, 2006; Agricultural Area BAS, 2002; Population NSO, 2010; Poverty Incidence NSCB,
2009; Production and Yield BAS, 2010.

The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan 2011-2017 of Region XII seeks to
encourage the growth of agro-industries in the region based on the increased availability of
agriculture and fisheries products. It thus seeks to achieve the following productivity and
production targets in various commodities.
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Table 76.Productivity Targets, SOCCSKSARGEN

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Palay
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
3.86
4.12
4.32
4.36
4.38
1,353,666
1,514,198
1,637,723
1,659,620
1,671,474
Corn (mt/ha.)
White
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
2.32
2.71
2.78
2.87
2.94
334,530
432,238
472,004
521,564
573,721
3.34
3.42
3.60
3.72
3.81
979,804
1,040,754
1,165,575
1,287,961
1,416,757
124,036
126,516
129,300
132,532
136,508
Yellow
Yield (mt/ha)
Production (mt)
Livestock (mt)
Swine
Goat
6,683
6,897
7,131
7,388
7,669
Cattle
19,012
19,194
19,382
19,576
19,776
Carabao
12,941
13,122
13,352
13,632
13,973
Chicken
37,212
39,296
41,536
43,945
46,582
3,741
3,765
3,791
3,820
3,850
21.45
22.07
22.71
23.37
24.05
0.88
0.9
0.92
0.94
39.24
40.38
41.55
42.76
44
4.62
4.75
4.89
5.03
5.18
58.05
62.29
66.52
70.76
75
Duck
HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana
Coconut (copra)
Pineapple
Mango
Sugarcane
Coffee
0.85
0.9
0.95
1.01
1.06
Cacao
0.55
0.58
0.6
0.61
0.7
Rubber
3.06
3.24
3.36
3.47
3.55
Eggplant
10.29
10.59
10.9
11.22
11.54
Tomato
12.25
12.6
12.97
13.35
13.73
Cabbage
15.95
16.42
16.9
17.39
17.89
11.8
12.14
12.49
12.85
13.23
216,178
219,269
222,405
229,077
235,949
Municipal
47,380
48,057
48,744
50,207
51,713
Aquaculture
26,291
26,667
27,048
27,859
28,695
Vegetables
Cauliflower
Fishery (mt)
Commercial
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7.14.2 Strategies
In pursuit of these production and productivity targets, the following strategies will be
implemented:
1. Focusing of interventions/initiatives that enhance competitiveness of the regions
priority commodities by:
a. Adopting the value chain cluster strategy involving firms and institutions that
produce related/linked products or services;
b. Using the Value Chain Framework in selecting priority commodities and in
identifying strategies/upgrading options to enhance the productivity, value, and
competitiveness of agricultural and food products in the region;
c. Strengthening the link between research and extension and activating and
capacitating the research and extension networks throughout the region; and
d. Expanding the priority researchable areas to include the value chain approach.
2. Implementation of the rationalization plan of the DA, with the personnel
requirement of the Department being based on its steering functions and with the
RFUs being provided enough staff and resources to fulfill their rowing functions.

Irrigation
Region XII will have 38,896 has more of irrigated area during the plan period, benefitting
85,067 farmers. In addition, a total of 29,681has will be rehabilitated. Among the four
provinces of the region, North Cotabato will benefit most from the generation of new
service areas.
Meanwhile, 1,610 SSIPs will be installed mostly in the rice and HVC areas of Cotabato.
The farm-to-market network in the region will be expanded by 1,857 km. Sultan Kudarat
and Cotabato will get the bulk of these roads. These infrastructures will contribute to
poverty reduction in the region while helping improve the efficiencies of the value chains
of rice, corn, fisheries and high value crops.
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Production, Postharvest and Processing Equipment and Facilities

The production equipment and facilities to which farmers will be provided easier access in
the region will mostly be hand tractors, drum seeders, transplanters, rain shelters, and
tillers. Rice and corn farm clusters will be the main beneficiaries of these equipment and
facilities. These will be available under various counterparting schemes involving LGUs,
the DA, and the farm clusters.
Post-harvest and processing equipment and facilities will also be made available. These
will mostly be dryers, mills, storage facilities, corn shellers, and smoke houses and will be
available for rice and corn clusters, as well as NGOs and POs.
Tramlines, trading centers, and agro-meteorology stations will also be established in the
region.
RDE activities in the region will consist mostly of research on climate change-adapted
varieties; research and development on, and promotion of, organic agriculture; trainings;
commercialization of drought and submerge tolerant rice varieties; and the promotion of
GAP, GAHP, and HACCP. Among the facilities that will be maintained and upgraded to
support these activities are the five research stations which cater to the needs of different
priority commodities. The continuous updating of the registry of farmers adopting organic
agriculture practices will also be undertaken.
Regulatory Services
Region XII will intensify its regulatory activities to retain its FMD-free status. The
livestock and poultry councils shall maintain their strong partnership with each other and
with the DA, especially in conducting monitoring and surveillance activities. Quarantine
services will also be intensified to prevent the entry into the region, not only of FMD but
also of other pests and diseases. Quarantine stations and check points (ports and airports)
and other entry points will be maintained and upgraded. Furthermore, soil laboratories, the
Regional Animal Disease and Diagnostic Laboratory and the Regional Animal Feed
analysis Laboratory will be maintained and upgraded, and their staffs provided appropriate
technical training.
Policy and Planning
RFU XII will formulate various plans when these are needed, in the process making
possible the full and meaningful participation of all stakeholders, especially small
agriculture and fisheries producers. It will also advocate wider and deeper acceptance of
the various reforms that it had been and will be instituted. In compliance with the
principles of good governance and transparency, the various policies, plans, programs,
projects, and activities of RFU XII will be disseminated to the general public.
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RFU XII will also continuously monitor the implementation of its programs and projects
so that its plans and the implementation modalities it would adopt in future programs and
plans would be more efficient, effective, and relevant. Among the monitoring strategies it
would follow are the geo-tagging of all projects before, during and after completion,
establishment of baseline data before implementation, conduct of regular impact
assessments, and documentation.
Among the initiatives RFU XII will undertake to help the agriculture and fisheries in the
region cope better with the effects of climate change are the massive dissemination of all
climate change-related information, identification and mapping out of climate changevulnerable areas, establishment of a climate information system which includes the
installation of agro meteorological stations and weather early warning devices, and the
development and promotion of approaches that would enable target communities to adapt
to the potential impacts of climate variability and change. RFU XII will also engage in the
buffer stocking of seeds, especially those of climatechange-adaptive varieties; the repair
and improvement of irrigation systems; and the conduct of continuous research on, and
development of, adaptive tools, technologies, and practices.
7.14.4 Inputs
The financial resources that are needed to implement this RAFMP, excluding the
interventions to be undertaken by the NFA, total PhP 31.1 billion. About 78.4% of these
resources will be expended on infrastructure and equipment support. Meanwhile, 14.9%
will go to the fulfillment of transitory functions, 4% to RDE, 2.3% to policy and planning
activities, and 0.5% to regulatory activities.
Table 77.Priority Value Chains, SOCCSKSARGEN
Priority
Commodity(ies)
Organic Rice
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
, South Cotabato
Local Market
Post Harvest Facilities
, Cotabato
Bios Dynamis
Info, Educ & Camp. Mat
KSN
TOT, Techno Demo
Tiangge Organika
Certification/Registration
Global Wellness Corp

UMFI
Quality Rice
White & Yellow Corn
North Cotabato
Region Feedmillers
4WD Tractor
Sultan Kudarat
Local/Domestic
Village Type Drier
South Cotabato
Corn Grits
Sarangani
Aflatoxin Analysis
Hermetic Cocoon
Rubber (Cup Lump)
North Cotabato
Kid. City
Village type processing
Sultan Kudarat
Makilala, Cot
Tramlines
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Robusta Coffee (Dried

Beans)
Market Outlet
South Cotabato
Training (TOT)
Sarangani
Laboratory
Sultan Kudarat
Local/Domestic
Nurseries
North Cotabato
Coffee shops
Processing Equipment
Roasted coffee
Sarangani
FMR
Ground Coffee
South Cotabato
Demo Farms
Coffee Vending
GAP
LPRAP
Vegetables-Pinakbet
M.T.
Squash
Sultan Kudarat
Local
Plastic Drum
Okra
Seeds
Ampalaya
Rainshelter
Eggplant
Greenhouses
String Beans
Trainers Training
GAP
Squash
South Cotabato
Okra
Ampalaya
Eggplant
String Beans
Squash
North Cotabato
Okra
Ampalaya
Eggplant
String Beans
Squash
Sarangani
Okra
Ampalaya
Eggplant
String Beans
Meat In A Box
Pork, Goat, Poultry
Mega Manila
Market Matching
Carabeef
Saudi Arabia
Quarantine Services
Research & Development
Animal Dispersal
Drugs & Biologics
Artificial Insemination
LPRAP
Aquaculture(Bangus &
North Cotabato
Local/ Domestic
LPRAP
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Tilapia)
Market Outlet
Sultan Kudarat
Smoke House
South Cotabato
Sarangani
Table 78.Summary of Inputs, SOCCSKSARGEN

Function
Budget (P000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Infrastructure
1,019,761 2,127,179 1,012,427 2,840,828 2,387,078 1,345,051 2,963,632
SSIPs constructed
117,254
652,276
Other Infra
NFA
96,750
71,000
73,550
73,275
73,275
59,968
467,980 1,120,510 1,059,340 1,185,360 1,352,420 1,296,140
90,153
310,780
574,399
479,474
484,122
494,277
519,103
5,100
81,590
35,100
21,140
31,748
47,696
43,515
50,090
57,670
71.230
66,909
82,181
88,073
130,803
137,451
144,701
154,258
2,341
3,212
4,242
4,600
5,820
6,920
8,370
2,550,817 3,149,757 3,239,598 3,329,439
RDE
Extension
4,830
Palay Procurement (NFA)

Information Support
Regulatory
8,454
9,180
10,199
12,300
16,450
22,655
25,355
10,556
14,274
17,428
20,812
24,889
30,109
33,918
16,791
22,150
24,478
77,127
89,764
104,135
118,511
15,4077
20,944
22,862
32374
,
41,051
48,722
60,138
700
700
1,350
1,350
1,350
1,430
1,430
66,738
145,638
191,147
217,437
222,156
171,185
154,193
54,413
751,544
846,172
875,737
897,351
21,866
44,353
736,304
829,463
856,661
877,686
Policy and Planning

Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Transitory
Production Support
Climate Change
Buffer Stocking/Rice Distribution
(NFA)
Total*
4,300
-
2,076,470 3,387,129 3,937,355 5,839,683 5,593,594 4,749,899 5,488,111
*Excluding other infra, palay procurement and buffer stocking/rice distribution of NFA
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7.15 Caraga
Table 79.Caraga by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
National
1,884,697
6.28% of national
523,407
5.41% of national
2,429,224.00
2.63% of national
47.80
26.50
974,213.35
6.28% of national
4.45
4.34
405,871.00
2.57% of national
3.10
3.62
372,363.61
65.85% of national
Major Commodities
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Oil Palm (fresh fruit bunch)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
22.30
Banana
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
210,392.94
2.31% of national
8.07
20.25
114,201.17
4.34% of national
12.13
14.17
Banana (Saba)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
7.15.1 Objectives
The following are the objectives of the Regional Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization
Plan of the Caraga Region:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Increase palay production from 428,025 mt in 2011 to 641,298 mt in 2017;

Increase productivity of other crops by 3% by the end of 2017;
Increase productivity of livestock and poultry by 3% by 2017;
Increase production of fishery by 10% in 2012-2013 and by 15% in 2014-2017;
and
5. Develop 44% of the regions irrigable lands by the end of 2017.
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Table 80.Productivity Targets, Caraga

Commodity
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
484,674
547,484
591,862
616,380
636,830
641,298
2.94
3.62
3.81
3.87
3.88
3.91
47,547
52,421
57,663
63,429
69,772
76,750
4.61
4.84
5.07
5.07
5.08
5.07
40,712
44,885
49,373
54,311
59,742
65,716
1.64
1.75
1.83
1.83
1.83
1.83
Rice
Production
Yield
Corn
Yellow
Production
Yield
White
Production
Yield
HVCC
Cassava
Production
50,684
55,752
61,328
67,460
74,206
81,627
Yield
11
12
13
14
15
16
Banana
8.55
8.8
9.05
9.32
9.59
9.9
Coconut (copra)
1.12
1.17
1.23
1.29
1.36
1.42
Pineapple
10.26
10.55
10.86
11.18
11.5
11.82
Mango
4.86
5.15
5.29
5.45
5.8
Coffee
0.61
0.64
0.68
0.72
0.76
0.8
Cacao
0.15
0.16
0.17
0.17
0.19
0.2
Rubber
2.29
2.43
2.52
2.6
2.66
2.77
Abaca
0.27
0.27
0.3
0.32
0.34
0.36
Eggplant
7.64
7.86
8.09
8.32
8.56
8.82
Tomato
4.46
4.59
4.73
4.86
5.15
Swine
50,714
51,728
52,866
54,188
55,814
57,600
Cattle
1,403
1,416
1,430
1,445
1,459
1,475
Carabao
4,473
4,536
4,615
4,712
4,830
4,955
Goat
1,510
1,559
1,612
1,670
1,733
1,802
12,796
13,512
14,282
15,111
16,017
17,010
Livestock
Chicken
Chicken eggs
2,562
2,716
2,884
3,072
3,287
3,523
Duck
233
234
236
238
239
241
Duck eggs
549
556
563
572
583
594
Fisheries
Commercial
7,810
8,040
8,290
8,540
8,810
9,080
Municipal
71,860
74,020
76,250
78,540
81,100
83,660
Aquaculture
27,700
28,500
29,400
30,280
31,240
32,200
Production in mt (Livestock and Fisheries), Yield in mt/ha (HVCC)
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7.15.2 Programs and Strategies

The Rice Program
Caraga aims to attain a 102% self sufficiency level by 2013 on the basis of a 128-kilogram
per capita consumption and an annual population growth rate of 1.25%. To pursue this
goal, the following strategies shall be executed:
a. Enhancement of LGU participation towards an LGU-led rice production program
by crafting and implementing local rice sufficiency plans;
b. Consolidation of farms into production clusters to facilitate production
management and delivery of customized extension and support services;
c. Provision of interventions on the production and distribution of seeds of rice
varieties adapted to adverse conditions and the promotion of location-specific
nutrient management anchored on PalayCheck;
d. Intensification of extension support towards farmers empowerment through
capacity building and improved access to technology and support services with the
end in view of transforming them into self-reliant and progressive farmers. The
technical capability and proficiency of agricultural extension workers (AEWs)
should also be enhanced through continuous trainings and improved access to
latest agri-fishery trends through information technology;
e. Improvement of production efficiencies through farm mechanization and
developments in post-harvest and irrigation;
f. Enhancement of market and credit support through the conduct of market
matching/forum for the Rice Consolidation Center, and linking of farmers/farmers
associations to credit institutions for the acquisition of farm machinery and
equipment for land preparation, planting, and harvesting; and
g. Development of a dynamic, demand-driven and need-oriented R&D agenda that
focuses on the generation of location-specific technologies anchored on
PalayCheck, addressing risks associated with climate change, and the utilization of
high-end technologies such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote
sensing in rice production.
The Corn and Cassava Program
The primary objective of this program is to empower farmers to become entrepreneurs by
increasing the production of cost-quality competitive corn and cassava for food and feeds.
In attaining the targets, the following strategies will be employed:
a. Strengthening of the cluster areas and facilitation of the delivery of locationspecific production and support services;
b. Promotion of the use of high quality seeds and planting materials and the
establishment of the organic based farming system;
c. Increasing sources of quality planting materials for commercial scale planting
through the provision of registered seeds to identified or trained seed growers;
d. Upgrading of existing trichogramma laboratories through the provision of supplies
and materials for the rearing and production of trichogramma;
e. Enhancement of the capacities of AEWs and farmers through conduct of season-long
farmers field schools, training of trainers, and other capability building activities;
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f. Development of commodity-related research studies as evaluated and approved by

the Regional Research and Development, and Extension Network;
g. Improvement of the efficiency of production and postharvest activities through
counterpart sharing on the acquisition of agricultural machineries and equipment;
and
h. Enhancement of database management through the use of the latest information
technology systems.
The High Value Commercial Crops Program
The High Value Crops Development Program aims to make Caraga a producer of quality
high value commercial crops through strong and dynamic private sector-led organizations.
To achieve this goal, the following strategies will be implemented during the plan period:
a. Facilitation of the delivery of appropriate development support services by
building strong coordination and partnership among DA attached agencies,
producers, LGUs, NGOs, and other major stakeholders in crafting a local high
value crops development agenda and supporting LGU initiatives on local priorities;
b. Harmonization of development interventions in the strategic production areas by
supporting participatory technology development and promotion activities and the
advancement of sustainable farming technologies, the provision of production
inputs and improvement of efficiency levels in farm operation and management,
the establishment of post harvest facilities, the conduct of value adding and product
development initiatives, and the pursuit of local and national research and
development agenda;
c. Promotion and improvement of access to local and international markets by
enhancing farmers competitiveness; promoting investment opportunities in highly
viable project initiatives; and engaging in product development, matching and
promotion activities;
d. Proactive management of demand and supply situations through the maximum
utilization of local and indigenous crop species.
The Livestock and Poultry Program
The program envisions the growth of livestock- and poultry-based agribusiness enterprises
anchored on livestock and poultry farmers profitability and public health safety. Toward
this end, the following strategies will be undertaken:
a. Strengthening of networking among industry players and encouraging of private
sector to venture into commercial livestock farming;
b. Acceleration of genetic improvement through the infusion of superior breeder
stocks and the massive implementation of artificial insemination;
c. Maintaining of the FMD- and avian influenza-free status of the region and
containing of the infestation of other emerging and reemerging diseases by
enforcing quarantine and regulatory laws, especially in the identified entry and exit
points of the region;
d. Intensification of the enforcement of the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act and
Administrative Order No. 8 of 2004 on the orderly marketing of livestock and
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e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
poultry and its by-products, and the implementation of the Rabies Control and
Eradication Program;
Improvement and development of the existing pasture demonstration areas and the
validation of more potential areas for the establishment of forage and pasture
demonstration sites as sources of planting materials;
Upgrading of the capacity of regional animal disease diagnostic, feed analytical,
and rabies examination laboratories as well as the provincial facilities through the
acquisition of additional equipment and reagents;
Enhancement of the utilization and value-adding of animals and animal byproducts, including wastes, through the establishment of meat processing centers
and the increasing of the awareness of the biogas technology;
Strengthening of livestock-based organizations and AEWs through the conduct of
capability building activities and the provision of technical services and other
logistics support;
Improving of the access of small-scale livestock stakeholders to credit; and
Conduct of livestock and poultry-related researches.
The Fisheries Program

With the abundant and rich open seas abutting Caraga, there is no reason why the
productivity and income of the fishery sector should not increase during the 2012-2017
period. The following strategies will be implemented to increase the fishery production in
the region:
a. Establishment of fish sanctuaries to substantially improve fish catch and ensure a
sustainable supply of fish population;
b. Enforcement of fishery laws and the implementation of integrated coastal resource
management programs and projects to appropriately manage fishery resources and
support the thrust of food security and protection of fishers;
c. Strengthening of advocacy for aquaculture to attract more investors into
aquaculture enterprises in the region;
d. Advocacy for the maximum use of existing fishpond areas to save mangroves from
conversion to fishing areas;
e. Establishment of a fish port and fish processing facilities in strategic areas of the
region;
f. Increasing of investments for the conduct of appropriate research and development
to improve the growth of fishery sector;
g. Improvement of the resiliency of the fishery sector through the restoration of
fishing grounds, stocks and habitats and the promotion of sustainable and climatechange responsive fishing technologies and products; and
h. Expansion of the fisheries insurance system as an important risk sharing
mechanism.
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Irrigation
For the plan period, a total of 48,100 has of irrigated new service area will be generated.
Of this area, the majority (97.0%) will be serviced by NISs and CISs, while 3.0% will be
serviced by SSIPs.
The largest proportion of the newly irrigated areas that will be generated under this plan
will be located in Agusan del Sur, followed by Surigao del Sur and then Agusan del Norte.
The areas generated by NISs and CISs will be planted to rice while those by SSIPs will be
planted to vegetables and other priority commodities.
A total of 1,019 kms of FMRs will be constructed and rehabilitated in the region during
the plan period. In 2012, majority of the FMRs that will be constructed will be located in
Agusan del Sur.
Access to production, postharvest and processing equipment and facilities will be facilitated
under this plan. These production equipment and facilities will consist mainly of hand
tractors, sprayers, rice combine harvesters, seed cleaners, and rice drum seeders, all of which
will be made more accessible to farmers through memoranda of agreement between the RFU
and the requesting municipality/ cooperative/farmers organization. Under these memoranda,
the requesting party shall assume responsibility for managing and maintaining the equipment
or facility. These equipment and facilities will support production and productivity increases
in rice, corn, palm oil, rubber, banana, coconut and coffee value chains.
Meanwhile, the postharvest facilities and equipment that will be distributed will mostly be
harvesting and processing facilities such as mechanical and solar dryers, decorticating
machines, baling machines, twining and weaving machines, depulpers, dehullers, roasters,
storage facilities, and village type processing centers. These facilities will be distributed
mostly in Agusan del Sur, Agusan del Norte, and Surigao del Sur, where rice, corn,
rubber, abaca, banana, coconut and coffee are produced and processed.
mostly of R&D on farm production and postharvest technologies for existing and potential
export products. These activities will be focused on the identification of crops to be
cultivated given soil and terrain suitability, availability of raw materials, cost of inputs,
and the crops marketability. Similar attention will be given to developing betterengineered food crops that could withstand the devastating effects of climate change.
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To be able to conduct R&D activities optimally, two tissue culture laboratories and
metarhizium laboratories will be maintained and upgraded during the plan period. These
facilities will serve primarily as research centers for the development of new varieties and
the identification of new diseases. Among their outputs would be crop varieties that
would be suitable to the agro-climatic conditions present in the area, which will be more
resistant to pests and diseases as well as be climate resilient.
services will mostly be trainings and be focused on crop production and management,
especially for commodities identified in the FSSP. Market assistance will likewise be
strengthened in the region to complement efforts to increase efficiencies in the value chains in
rice, corn, rubber, palm oil, abaca, coconut, banana, vegetables, livestock and poultry, fisheries
and coffee. This assistance will mostly be in the forms of trade fairs, market-matching
activities, and congresses, and the dissemination of market-related information.
Regulatory Services
prevention/control and eradication of brontispa, cadang-cadang in coconut, and abaca
diseases such as bunchytop mosaic. Also of concern is the maintenance of the FMD- and
avian influenza-free status of the region. As a consequence, quarantine measures will be
undertaken and regulatory laws implemented vigorously. Quarantine stations and checkpoints
will also be established, maintained and/or upgraded for the conduct of massive surveillance
on the movements of agricultural products and by-products coming in and out of the region.
These stations will be strategically located in Nasipit, Agusan del Norte; Surigao City; Tandag
City; Butuan City; Lipata, Surigao City; and Trento, Agusan del Sur.
Soil laboratories will also be maintained to serve the needs of rice, corn, coconut, palm oil,
abaca, banana, rubber, mango, and cassava farmers. Animal disease diagnostics
laboratories will be maintained, and/or upgraded to help identify animal diseases. Feed
laboratories will also be maintained to detect aflatoxin content in feed products. These will
be located in Barangay Taguibo, Butuan City, Agusan Norte (within the RIARC Station).
Finally, testing for aflatoxin and other chemical content in seeds and testing for moisture
content will be strengthened through the seed laboratories maintained in compliance with
sanitary and photosanitary standards.
Policy and Planning
RFU XIII will ensure that the Regional Development and Investment Plan and Medium
Term Public Investment Plan are formulated when and in the manner required. It will also
prepare its annual plans and budget proposal in compliance with the requirements of DAcentral office. In all cases of plan formulation, all stakeholders will be consulted.
To enable the region, specifically its agriculture and fisheries sector, to cope with the risks
and effects of climate change, RFU XIII will enhance its monitoring and early warning
systems for climate change events and its emergency response capacity. It will improve
water storage management and water-saving irrigation management practices and promote
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contour farming. It will also prioritize the construction of climate-change resilient

infrastructure and, should it be warranted, relocate the production of particular crops.
7.15.4 Inputs
This RAFMP, excluding NFA interventions, requires the budget of PhP20.6 billion. The
great majority (75.9%) of this requirement will pay for infrastructure and equipment
support while 17.9% will go to transitory activities, 5.2% to RDE initiatives, 0.8% to
policy and planning, 0.3% to regulatory activities.
Table 81.Priority Value Chains, Caraga
Priority
Commodity(ies)
Rice
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
(Local, Domestic
or Export)
Agusan del Norte
Davao City
Construction/rehabilitation/restoration of irrigation
facilities
Agusan del Sur
Local
Construction/rehabilitation of FMR
Surigao del Norte
Lanao
Construction of production and postharvest facilities
Surigao del Sur

Corn
Agusan del Norte
Strengthening of irrigators/farmers associations

Local
Agusan del Sur

Surigao del Sur
Agusan del Norte
Expansion of new cluster areas

Production and postharvest of equipment and
facilities: farm tractor, corn mill, village type
processing facilities
Surigao del Norte

Coconut
Local
Participatory coconut planting and fertilization
Agusan del Sur
Construction/rehabilitation of production and

postharvest facilities
Surigao del Norte

Surigao del Sur
Postharvest of equipment and facilities:

decorticating machine, baling machine, twining and
weaving machines
Dinagat Islands
Expansion of storage facilities

Skills training
Abaca
Rubber
Agusan del Norte
Iligan City
Establishment/Expansion of abaca nurseries
Agusan del Sur:
Cagayan de Oro
City
Construction/rehabilitation of access road/FMR
Surigao del Sur
Davao City
Installation of Tramline
Surigao del Norte
Leyte
Postharvest Facilities/Equipment:
Expansion/Construction of warehouse/drying shed,
stripping machines, baling machine
Bicol
Training: fiber classification, stripping, sinamay and

handicraft
Local
Capability building of abaca farmers/associations
Agusan del Norte
Davao City
Agusan del Sur
Local
Construction/rehabilitation of warehouse
Surigao del Su
Establishment of rubber processing facility

Skills training
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
(Local, Domestic
or Export)
Postharvest Equipment: Tapping and budding
equipment
Coffee
Vegetable
Banana
Surigao del
Nestle Philippines
Agusan del
Local
Establishment of processing facility
Surigao del Norte
Postharvest equipment and facilities: depulper,

dehuller, roaster, storage facilities
Agusan del Sur: Esperanza,

Loreto, Veruela, Sibagat and
Bayugan
Strengthening of coffee farmers/association
Agusan del Norte
Local
Establishment of small scale irrigation facilities
Agusan del Sur
Leyte
Establishment of production and postharvest

facilities
Cebu
Provision of seeds
Agusan del Norte
Manila
Provision of planting materials
Agusandel Sur
Cebu
Surigao del Norte
Leyte
Establishment of production and postharvest

facilities
Local
Livestock and
Poultry
Agusan del Norte
Local
Upgrading of breeder stocks
Agusandel Sur
Expansion of forage and pasture through provision

of seeds and planting materials
Surigao del Norte
Upgrading of production centers
Surigao del Sur
Establishment of meat processing facility

Strengthening of livestock based organization
Fisheries
Surigao del Norte
Manila
Establishment of fish sanctuaries
Dinagat Islands
Cebu
Production and postharvest of equipment and

facilities: cold storage, dryer, feed mill, mini
processing plant, etc
Surigao del Sur
Local
Skills training on fish processing

Restoration of fishing grounds, stocks and habitats
and the promotion of sustainable and climatechange responsive fishing technologies and
products
Mangrove reforestation
Cassava
Surigao del Sur
Dinagat Islands
Surigao del Norte
Local
Cagayan de
Oro City
Construction/rehabilitation of access
road/FMR
Construction/rehabilitation of
warehouse
Skills training
Postharvest Equipment: granulator,
chipping machine, etc
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Priority
Commodity(ies)
Soybean
Production Areas
(Provinces)
Market Outlet
(Local, Domestic
or Export)
Agusan del Sur
Local
Surigao del Sur

Surigao del Norte
Province of Dinagat
Islands
Davao
road/FMR
warehouse
Skills training
Provision of Postharvest Equipment
Mango
Agusan del Norte
Cebu
Local
Manila
Cacao
Agusan del Norte
Local
warehouse
Skills training
Provision of Postharvest Equipment
Provision of planting materials

road/FMR
warehouse
Skills training
Agusan del Sur

Surigao del Norte
Surigao del Sur
Province of Dinagat
Islands
Table 82.Summary of Inputs, Caraga

Function
Budget (P000)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
323,416
2,444,567
1,332,090
1,850,922
1,654,968
1,295,190
901,800
6,196
8,936
38,165
35,500
35,500
35,500
45,500
149,456
682,824
1,628,791
254,940
249,770
283,450
314,750
14,990
203,200
1,131,479
165,904
165,129
175,729
205,009
10,500
22,000
22,500
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
NFA (Storage Facilities
and PH Equipment
RDE
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55,054
80,636
62,643
65,099
69,045
70,379
108,590
Extension
40,349
66,559
77,342
61,903
75,779
62,379
86,522
922
1,737
4,573
2,031
8,076
2,143
2,215
429,930
438,765
447,699
456,534
466,063

Assistance
NFA Procurement
Information Support
6,196
12,474
9,463
8,191
8,639
6,924
7,269
4,237
4,358
7,332
10,845
10,946
11,443
12,028
13,665
21,651
29,212
26,353
23,579
23,969
20,715
165
290
1,345
1,345
1,345
1,345
1,345
Production Support
180,341
198,633
310,047
238,637
221,665
231,146
186,085
Climate Change
248,000
264,278
274,500
308,937
324,788
339,287
351,676
429,930
1,363,349
1,495,764
1,539,663
1,576,103
3,990,142
4,906,981
3,030,607
2,849,229
2,538,884
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
NFA Buffer Stocking &

Distribution
Total
1,042,987
2,243,504
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7.16 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

Table 83.ARMM by the Numbers
Land Area (has)
Population
National
1,160,829
3.87% of national
533,410
5.52% of national
3,256,140.00
3.53% of national
45.90
26.50
1,254,755.49
8.09% of national
3.98
4.34
1,008,867.31
48.91% of national
10.73
9.66
855,666.00
13.42% of national
2.74
2.55
695,717.06
27.33% of national
623,343.00
3.95% of national
3.00
3.62
Major Commodities
Coconut (with husk)
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Cassava
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Corn
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
Aquaculture
Production (mt)
Palay
Production (mt)
Yield (mt/ha)
7.16.1 Priorities and Strategies

Priorities
1. To construct farm-to-market roads and irrigation facilities, and provide postharvest
facilities in the main production, value-addition, and marketing areas of
commodities in which the region has comparative advantage;
2. To promote farm mechanization through the provision of modern farm equipment
for the production, preservation, and marketing of key commodities; and
3. To establish strategic market centers to achieve optimal value chain efficiency.
Strategy
To achieve its objectives, the RAFMP of the ARMM focuses public and private
investments on commodities where the region has comparative advantage in, and on areas
where the production, processing and marketing of these commodities are concentrated.
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Operationally, this means that the provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur will serve as
convergence zone for rice, corn, livestock and plantation commercial crops. The surplus
production of corn in these provinces makes them ideal destinations for investments in the
livestock industry. Polloc Port in Parang, Maguindanao has a container and bulk services to
meet the transport requirements of various industries that serve the Cebu and Manila markets.
Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, on the other hand, shall be the growth areas for fisheries and other high
value commercial crops such as fruits. Bongao shall be the transshipment and market point.
Basilan, for its part, shall be the center for the rubber industry. Although Isabela City is
not a component of ARMM, its port, together with that in Lamitan City, would serve as an
important transshipment point of the provinces agri-fisheries products.

Irrigation
A total of 13,138 has of irrigated area will be generated in the region for the period 20122017. In addition, 5,562has will be rehabilitated.
Postharvest Facilities
The plan aims to make available to farmers in the region hermetic cocoons, village type
dryers, hammer mills, mechanical corn shellers, and corn mills.
Farm Mechanization
A total of 133 units of modern equipment will likewise be made available.
During the plan period, a total of 350 kms of farm-to-market roads will be constructed in
the ARMM.
7.16.3 Inputs
Implementing this RAFMP, excluding NFA interventions, will require that PhP 6.06
billion be made available. The great majority (86.9%) of this funding requirement will go
to infrastructure and equipment support. Four percent will be accounted for by RDE, 1%
each by regulatory services and policy and planning. Transitory functions will account for
the rest.
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Table 84. Productivity Targets, ARMM

Palay
Yield in metric tons/hectare
Total production in tons
Corn
White
Yellow
Livestock (000mt)
Goat
Chicken
HVCC (mt/ha.)
Banana
Coconut (copra)
Pineapple
Mango
Sugarcane
Coffee
Cacao
Rubber
Vegetables
Eggplant
Tomato
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Fishery (mt)
Commercial
Municipal
Aquaculture
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
3.12
563,761
3.12
634,969
3.32
704,154
3.50
754,435
3.54
771,497
3.61
803,605
2.55
777,598
2.69
823,535
2.88
891,525
3.08
920,288
3.17
1,051,410
3.27
1,142,184
3.40
185,675
3.57
201,374
3.94
226,908
4.08
255,546
4.18
284,694
4.28
322,344
6.38
6.58
6.80
7.05
7.32
7.61
7.11
7.51
7.94
8.40
8.90
9.45
20.01
0.85
20.2
4.5
25
0.7
0.3
4.5
21.3
0.88
23.5
4.65
27.2
0.75
0.4
5.2
21.5
0.9
26.8
4.8
29.5
0.8
0.45
5.6
22.3
0.92
28.3
5.01
30.25
0.82
0.48
5.8
23.24
0.98
30
5.2
32.5
0.85
0.51
6.2
10.29
12.25
15.95
11.8
10.59
12.6
16.42
12.14
10.9
12.97
16.9
12.49
11.22
13.35
17.39
12.85
11.54
13.73
17.89
13.23
1,298
1,454
2,804
1,324
1,498
2,973
1,364
1,543
3,151
1,405
1,589
3,340
1,447
1,636
3,541
2017
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Table 85.Priority Value Chains, ARMM

Production Areas
(Provinces)

Domestic or Export)
Rice
Maguindanao,Lanao Del Sur,

Basilan,Tawi -Tawi,Sulu
Local
Organic Fertilizer
Maguindanao,Lanao Del Sur,

Basilan, Tawi -Tawi,Sulu
Local
Corn
Maguindanao,Lanao Del
Sur,Basilan
Local
RDE, training, capability building,

irrigation facilities, FMRs, credit
facilities, production loan, crop
insurance, hand tractor, draft
animals, farm equipment,
provision of farm tractors
Organic Cassava
Lanao Del Sur,Basilan, Sulu,

Tawi-Tawi
Local,Domestic
RDE, training, capability building,

irrigation facilities, FMRs, credit
facilities, production loan, crop
insurance, hand tractor, draft
animals, farm equipment,
provision of farm tractors
Native Chicken (for Halal

Meat Production
Mag.,Lanao Del
Sur,Basilan,Sulu, Tawi-Tawi
Local
R&D, Extension, Capability

Building, Market Info, Linkage
Goat
Maguindanao,Lanao Del
Sur,Basilan,Sulu,Tawi-Tawi
Local
R& D, Extension, Capability

Building, Training, Market Info,
Linkage
Coffee
Lanao Del Sur, Basilan, Sulu,

Tawi-Tawi
Local,Domestic
Establishment of Tissue Culture

Laboratories, Conduct of R&D,
Technology Transfer, Credit
Facility, Packaging
Seaweeds
Maguindanao, Basilan, Sulu,

Tawi-Tawi
Local,Domestic
Input Assistance, Seaweed

Nurseries, Post Harvest Facilities,
Maintenance of Seaweed Culture
Laboratory, Maintenance of
Seaweed Processing Plant,
Extension & Training, Institutional
Dev't
A. Short Term (for Halal

Meat Production with
Halal Certification
Board)
Research Development and

Extension (RDE), e.g. vermin
compost, biofertilizer and
biopesticides, Conduct of training,
capability building, construction of
irrigation, FMRs, Credit Facilities,
Provision of Grain PH Complex
B. Long-Term (Goat Meat

Production)
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Table 86. Summary of Inputs, ARMM

Function
Infrastructure
SSIPs constructed
Other Infra
RDE
Extension
NFA Procurement
Information Support
Regulatory
Policy and Planning
Policy and Planning
Credit Facilitation
Information Support
Production Support
Climate Change
NFA Buffer Stocking and
Distribution
Total*
2011
2012
410,277 1,074,931
5,171
71,950
109,599 212,922
34,664
73,740
Budget (P000)
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
437,092
78,500
298,330
122,281
122,500
300,164
106,534
118,000
340,954
140,614
121,250
380,909
145,611
415,968
142,145
7,018
33,501
672
327
6,379
6,405
30,826
720
750
6,083
6,675
35,405
496
339,496
1,600
9,003
19,615
11,869
496
419,211
2,100
11,653
22,565
11,080
200
431,168
2,100
10,353
23,545
11,400
200
443,126
2,100
10,203
11,400
200
2,100
9,503
7,300
85
400
7,328
60
400
7,523
400
8,625
400
9,375
400
9,535
400
10,375
400
46,255
-
69,557
15,760
119,509
-
50,869
-
61,609
-
28,569
-
28,569
-
618,360 1,929,004 2,115,380 2,177,006 2,228,372
661,648 1,571,431 1,116,813
*Excluding NFA warehouses, palay procurement, buffer stocking and distribution
634,825
717,250
733,722
620,660
June 2012
CHAPTER8
Plan Implementation
8.1 AFMP-Driven Annual Budget
This AFMP will provide the basis for bringing together strategic planning and annual
budgeting activities at the DA. It provides the logical framework for ensuring that the
annual budget will finance a coherent set of technological, capacity-building and other
inputs adequate to achieve the production, productivity and other targets specified in the
Plan. This will mean that during annual budget preparation, DA planners and budget
personnel will jointly lead in: assessing performance during the previous budget year;
confirming measurable output targets for the coming budget year; and preparing the
corresponding performance budget based on this Plan.
With the DAs annual budgets being based on this Plan, the agriculture and fishery sector
will move towards sustainable modernization. This AFMP adopts a number of
modernization strategies, including: functional planning and budgeting (as opposed to
purely commodity-based planning and budgeting); gendered value-chain; climate change
adaptation/climate risk reduction; and RFU-led spatial integration, including DA-LGU
engagement and private sector partnership. These strategies are meant to enable the DA to
break out of maintaining long-standing programs, projects and activities, and more
rationally and therefore effectively pursue both food self-reliance and global
competitiveness objectives. The planning innovation of extending the Plan horizon
through to Year 2017 is meant to sustain longer-term modernization strategies. Indeed, the
broad range of stakeholders engaged by the DA during the course of plan preparation
advocated for a workplan and budget that supports modernization as envisioned by the
visionaries who crafted the AFMA a decade and a half ago in 1997.
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8.2 Plan Monitoring and Evaluation

The plan preparation process does not end with the finalization of the AFMP for 20112017. It will continue with the identification of a predictable set of activities to be
contained in an annual planning calendar that will be issued by the Department. Such
calendar will make plan monitoring and evaluation, as well as annual budgeting, as
described earlier, regular parts of the plan preparation process.
The objectives of plan monitoring and evaluation are to: (a) validate that the Plan
continues to be relevant within the context of a dynamic sector facing vibrant domestic
and foreign markets; (b) firm up the culture of performance within the Department
because the outputs, results, and socio-economic impact of programs, projects and
activities on the well-being of sector stakeholders, particularly small farmers and fishers,
are objectively assessed; and (c) report back to the broad range of stakeholders who
shared their time and ideas during the plan preparation stage.
Plan monitoring and evaluation will involve a thorough review of plan accomplishments
versus targets and a re-confirmation or re-adjustment of targets and implementation
modalities. Apart from internal monitoring and evaluation, and the DA will, as it had
done in the past, also commission periodic external, independent assessments of the
relevance, effectiveness and impact of plan implementation. Such assessments will be
conducted by experts coming from highly reputable Philippine and/or international
research organizations such as those based in StateColleges and Universities.
Plan monitoring and evaluation will also involve re-engaging the stakeholders, not only to
report back on accomplishments and assessments, but also to obtain fresh and updated
feedback and inputs through area-wide and central level forums that will be publicly
announced in advance. Such re-engaging will promote not only continuing, substantial
and meaningful stakeholder participation, but also transparent and accountable.
8.3 Institutional Arrangements

A horizontally and vertically integrated matrix structure is required for plan implementation.
For this purpose, the entire DA family has been organized in accordance with the
Departments four core functions, namely: research and development, and extension;
infrastructure and equipment support; regulation; and policy and planning, for which focals
were assigned. The effective leadership demonstrated by the function focals during plan
preparation is expected to continue during plan implementation. Throughout the life of the
Plan, each of the same functional groupings will continue to be mainly responsible for
maintaining effective and efficient coordination of all implementation activities between and
among the concerned bureaus, agencies and offices at the central level.
These function focals will help the Planning, Financial Management, and Field Operations
Services (PS, FMS, and FOS) steer the preparation of the annual plans and budgets based on
this Plan. Operating units will translate the annual plan and budget into quarterly physical and
financial plans (PFPs) and the monthly work and financial plans (WFPs). Assisted by function
focals, PS will then lead in the consolidation of the PFPs while FOS will take responsibility
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for the consolidation of the WFPs. With respect to monitoring and evaluation, PS will ensure
both external and in-house evaluation of the AFMP are undertaken. FOS and function focals
will lead in the monitoring of WFP implementation while PS will consolidate the quarterly
Budget Accountability Report (BAR) required by the oversight agencies. PS will also
commission periodic external, independent assessments of the relevance, effectiveness, and
impact of Plan implementation.
At the sub-national level, the RFUs will continue to serve as first among equals in plan
implementation, to ensure the integration of DA-wide programs, projects and activities
into the regional plan. Such primus inter pares role will extend, however, beyond the DAwide structure. Considering the vital role being assigned by the Plan to the LGUs in the
formulation, implementation and monitoring of the regional AFMP, the RFUs will need to
serve as interlocutors between the DA and the LGUs. The Plan envisions that costsharing will be the primary mode of funding agriculture and fishery programs, projects
and activities.
The RFUs will also serve as the operational bridge to the DAR and DENR, in line with the
Departments support of the NCI, which is aimed at reducing the sector-wide transactions
costs for inter-agency delivery of responsive, timely and quality public goods and services
and investments to farmers and fishers. This is strategic given the anticipated completion
in 2014 of Land Acquisition and Distribution under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program and the plan to fold in the DARs support services with the DAs.
Finally, the RFUs will continue to engage with the farmers, fishers, private sector, NGOs, and
POs at the provincial and municipal levels in compliance with Section 13 of the AFMA.
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FORMULATION OF THE AGRICULTURE

AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION PLAN, 2011 2017

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES

FORMULATION OF THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION PLAN, 2011 - 2017

Where We Are: The State of Philippine Agriculture and

Contribution to the Economy..................................................................... 5

Productivity Constraints ............................................................................ 8

Growth below target ...................................................................... 5

High cost of production inputs ....................................................... 8

Institutional and Policy Issues.................................................................. 11

Weak agricultural extension service ............................................. 11

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Vision and Commitment .......................................................................... 15

Where We Want to Go: Our Vision, Goals and Targets ...... 15

How We Shall Achieve Our Vision: Our Planning

Sustainable Modernization ...................................................................... 17

What We Shall Do: Priority Interventions

Research and Development, and Extension .............................................. 30

Regulatory Services ................................................................................. 46

Policy and Planning ................................................................................. 51

Climate Change ....................................................................................... 61

What We Shall Do: Plan of Action by Subsector ................ 66

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High Value Crops .................................................................................... 80

Livestock and Poultry .............................................................................. 89

What We Shall Do in the Regions..................................... 102

Cordillera Administrative Region .......................................................... 102

Ilocos Region ........................................................................................ 112

Cagayan Valley ..................................................................................... 119

Central Luzon........................................................................................ 126

CALABARZON ................................................................................... 134

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Bicol ..................................................................................................... 150

Western Visayas .................................................................................... 160

Central Visayas ..................................................................................... 169

Eastern Visayas ..................................................................................... 177

Zamboanga Peninsula ............................................................................ 184

Northern Mindanao ............................................................................... 191

Davao Region ........................................................................................ 200

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SOCCSKSARGEN ............................................................................... 222

Caraga ................................................................................................... 229

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ............................................ 240

Plan Implementation ......................................................... 236

AFMP-Driven Annual Budget ............................................................... 236

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Table 45. Productivity Targets, MIMAROPA ............................................................... 143

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