Ingalla | Licudine | Lozada | Mabazza | Salapare

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Agriculture is the source of life
YET THEY ARE DYING
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CHOSEN POLICY:

Improvement on Agricultural Curricula to

Encourage Younger Generations

 Youth Encouragement
 Reiterating importance and needs
 Application of new technologies
 Practical involvement
 Partnership with the government
 Youth Development
 Science and Technology Researches

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1960s
✗ Philippine agriculture was ahead in
Asia.
✗ Students from different countries came
here to study agriculture and its
technology.
✗ According to the World Bank data from
1960 to 2016, the average value for the
Philippines during the period was 21.36
percent with a minimum of 9.65 percent
in 2016 and a maximum of 31.06
percent in 1974. This shows a sad truth
that the percent of GDP (value added)
contributed from the agriculture sector
continues to decrease.
PRESENT
✗ Agricultural land is being developed into
industrial areas, shopping malls and
subdivisions.
✗ Farmers are growing old and their children
have shifted into other careers.
✗ Many of our agricultural schools are
producing office-oriented workers who
would much rather do paper work than
help improve the agricultural sector of the
country.
✗ They are now better than us. Somehow,
we lost in the race.
Percent of GDP (value added)
contributed from the agriculture
sector
Agriculture plays an important
role in the country’s economy.
This is measured as the value
added of the agricultural sector
as percent of GDP.

According to WORLD BANK:

Average Value (1960-2016) : 21.36 %

1974 31.06 % (maximum)

2016 9.65 % (minimum)

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Philippine Labor Force Statistics (2017 and 2018)
Services
2018
Agriculture 2017
Agriculture
Industry

19.2 19.4 sector – posted

a DECREASE of
25.2 55.6 23.1 57.5 2.1 percentage
points
Source: PSA
(Phil. Statistics
43.0 MILLION 40.33 MILLION Authority)

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 Number of Filipino Farmers

2015 - 2.2 million 400,000

2010 – 2.6 million

Source: PSA

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 Ageing
Farmers

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 AVERAGE
AGE:
57-59 yrs old
- East-West Seeds Philippines general
manager Henk Hermans

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 Enrollment in
agricultural
courses
continue
to decline
1.5% every year
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)

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 The demand
enrollment in
agricultural
demand for
agricultural
should
education products correspondingly
increase the need
for agricultural
professionals.
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)

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 Consequently, poverty
incidence in the Philippines
remains largely a rural
phenomenon and is highest
among Filipinos engaged in
agriculture.
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 The International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD)
report indicated that about half
of the 91 million Filipinos (in
2009) lived in rural areas, and of
this, 30% were considered poor.
About 80% of the poor populace
in the rural areas was dependent
on subsistence agriculture.
This highlights the irony in
agriculture, farmers who are
involved in food production, the
building block of any agricultural
supply chain, are among the
poorest. 14
Poverty Incidence (2015)

Farmers: 34.3 %
Fisherman: 34.0 %

Source: PSA

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 FILIPINO FARMERS
1 they lack basic skills in farming 4 most of our farmers do not
own the land they till (50-50)

2 Expensive fertilizers, pesticides

and seeds 5 high rates of borrowing
institutions

3 the government has not developed farmers lack protection from the
a good infrastructure for farmers 6 people who take advantage of their
weaknesses.

- Philippine Star
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 There is also a limited
administrative and
government support in
the development of our
agriculture.
budget

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Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel
Piñol stressed the lack of budget
received by the agriculture
sector, noting that for this year,
only P49 billion of the
P122 billion budget it proposed
was approved.

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FORMULATION OF
ECONOMIC
POLICY

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GOAL
Agriculture constitutes the foundation
of food security. As such, it is
imperative that all concerned bodies
work together, innovate continuously,
collaborate in research and
development to meet future challenges
in agriculture.

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The study aims to
bring back the old
bounty of the
Philippine
agriculture.
WHY

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1960s
✗ Philippine agriculture was ahead in
Asia.
✗ Students from different countries came
here to study agriculture and its
technology.
✗ According to the World Bank data from
1960 to 2016, the average value for the
Philippines during the period was 21.36
percent with a minimum of 9.65 percent
in 2016 and a maximum of 31.06
percent in 1974. This shows a sad truth
that the percent of GDP (value added)
contributed from the agriculture sector
continues to decrease.
PRESENT
✗ Agricultural land is being developed into
industrial areas, shopping malls and
subdivisions.
✗ Farmers are growing old and their children
have shifted into other careers.
✗ Many of our agricultural schools are
producing office-oriented workers who
would much rather do paper work than
help improve the agricultural sector of the
country.
✗ They are now better than us. Somehow,
we lost in the race.
PHILIPPINES
 An agricultural country
 It is endowed with different
natural resources (kinds of
bodies of water, lands that
are lush and fertile, and a
climate that is favorable in
growing various kinds of
high valued crops and
raising livestock, poultry
and other farm animals)
Problems

• Even if the Philippines is primarily an agricultural country, we

have not done anything to ‘cultivate’ this sector.
• The farmers lack support, training and a moral boost
-second poorest sector in the country
• average age of Filipino farmers is 57-59 years old and therefore
there is a great need to encourage the youth to engage in crop
production to ensure the country’s food security.
• our farming practices are outdated, and majority of the farmers
are reluctant to use modern technology in farming, making their
work labor intensive and unsustainable.

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Importance of Agriculture to the Philippine Economy
1. Agriculture takes development to rural
areas
2. Agricultural development can lead to
food security
3. Agriculture is the key to unlock
economic self-sufficiency
4. Agriculture can lead to poverty
reduction
Main Goal of our Policy Options
Strengthen the agricultural sector

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 POLICY OPTIONS
A: Improvement on Agricultural Curricula
B: Farm Tourism
C: Promote Welfare of the Farmers
D: Remove the Rice Tarrification Law

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 A. Improvement on
Agricultural Curricula
to Encourage Younger
Generations

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Why?
Enrollment in agricultural courses
continue to decline

1.5% every year

- SEARCA

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How?
By application of ICTs to agricultural
courses

For younger generations to be more interested

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 B. Farm Tourism:
Raising Awareness
for Agriculture

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Why?
Agriculture was taken for granted

Stereotyped as low-level kind of job

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How?
By creating tour packages in farms that
includes planting & harvesting

Tourists’ interest on how crops are produced will be heightened

(Raising awareness)

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C. Promote Welfare
of the Farmers by
Protecting their
Rights and
Providing Benefits
“If there’s no farmer, there’s
no food, no future. Support
us, love us.”
-Jonjon Sarmiento,
PAKISAMA

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WHY

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✗Farmers receive treatments that they
don’t deserve resulting to different
problems and discouragement to
people to pursue the agricultural sector

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HOW

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✗By giving attention to their cries and protest
✗By enacting the supposed law that was meant for

them
✗Provide enough support like increasing the budget for

agricultural sector for machineries, research, etc.

✗Increasing the benefits that they receive

✗Empowering the agricultural sector

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D. Remove the Rice
Tarrification Law

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"It's the beginning of the end of
the local rice industry. Even with
the rice industry enhancement
fund, the local rice industry
does not stand a chance with
massive rice imports."

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 What is Rice Tariffication Law?
✗ The Rice Tariffication Law is an act
liberalizing the importation, exportation, and
trading of rice, lifting for the purpose the
quantitative import restriction on rice
(Ranada, 2019).
✗ This law deregulates the importation of
rice which results to the flooding of
imported rice in the country.

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WHY

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✗Filipino farmers may suffer
✗More competition for the local farmers

✗Shows lack of suppport to our own

agricultural sector
✗Discouragement for the local farmers

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HOW?

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-Since the law has already been
approved and presidential veto is no
longer possible, the government should
make sure that the law is implemented
properly specially the Rice
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund
since corruption is still a heavy issue in
every sector of the government

-If after years the law has been deemed

ineffective or not beneficial to the
farmers, encourage the senators to
provide another law that amends this
law

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“Focus first on
the agricultural
sector in the
Philippines”

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 POLICY OPTIONS
A: Improvement on Agricultural Curricula
B: Farm Tourism
C: Promote Welfare of the Farmers
D: Remove the Rice Tarrification Law

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 POLICY OPTIONS
A: Improvement on Agricultural Curricula
B: Farm Tourism
C: Promote Welfare of the Farmers A
D: Remove the Rice Tarrification Law

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 A. Improvement on
Agricultural Curricula
to Encourage Younger
Generations

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