Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry, and Fishing Sector: Economics in Focus Pag E S 27 2 - 2 8 0
Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry, and Fishing Sector: Economics in Focus Pag E S 27 2 - 2 8 0
Agriculture, Hunting, Forestry, and Fishing Sector: Economics in Focus Pag E S 27 2 - 2 8 0
Hunting,
Forestry,
and Fishing
Sector
ECONOMICS IN FOCUS
PA G E S 27 2 - 2 8 0
Analyze Analyze the indicators of national economic development;
Transfer Analyze Analyze the role of the agricultural sector ( agriculture, fishing,
Tasks
forestry) in national economic development
Agriculture,
Hunting, 1,533,369 1,544,279 1,685,956 1,762,616 1,722,211 1,827,882
Forestry. And
Fishing
11,906,907
10,920,048 11,045,429
9,882,747
9,005,122
8,160,337
5,887,300
5,582,525
4,987,948 5,102,686
4,582,981
4,250,451
Agriculture,
Hunting, 11% 10.2% 10.2% 9.7% 8.8% 10.2%
Forestry. And
Fishing
Industry
30%
Service
60%
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-top-rice-producing-and-consuming-countries-of-the-world-data-from-USDA-world-rice_fig1_317344755
FISHERIES
LIVESTOCK AND
POULTRY
PRICES
https://themendelianeconomists.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/8-problems-of-the-philippine-agricultural-sector/
1. Small farm size; 78% farms are To combat the lack of resources and lands
the farmers had, the Philippine Government
less than 3 hectares.
issued several Land Reform Programs.
Most of our farms are have already Just like the Republic Act (RA) 6657 which
shrunk in size due to the fast growth was implemented under Cory Aquino’s time
of our population. Therefore, our with aims to redistribute lands both public
and privately while providing appropriate
country needs to build more houses, support services to help the beneficiaries
sacrificing the agricultural sector of become independent small landowners.
our country.
2. Land is being encroached upon by the 3. Absence of critical programs on efficient
housing and industrial sectors irrigation systems
This is quite the same as the first one. Irrigation is an important factor in
Basically, this problem caused the first agriculture. Irrigation helps farmers keep
problem to happen due to the same their crops well-hydrated and moist,
reasons. especially during the warm seasons.
Without irrigation, the soil would become dry
and the crops will wilt.
4. Inadequate management programs on 5. Reduced farm labor
soil, pests and diseases Due to the fast industrialization of our
Pests and crop diseases have been a major country, many people prefer to do
problem in the agricultural sector of the industrialized work instead of planting crops
Philippines. It lacks funding from the for the nation to eat. Our farmers have
government. If these pests and diseases started to grow old, and only few are
were to be left out of control, famine would replacing our old farmers.
crawl across our country.
6. Expensive and inappropriate farm 7. Climate change and natural disasters
equipment for small farmers Our country is known to be prone to natural
Since we do not have much money for disasters like typhoons and earthquakes.
spending in agricultural needs, machinery What is not seen is that most of our crops
needed for this has become a great cannot resist extreme weather conditions
expense for our pockets. like these. Encroaching climate change can
also affect our agriculture due to its effects
like droughts.
8. Inadequate technology transfer
mechanisms
Our technology regarding agriculture is not
given enough attention. Our country lacks
machinery and technology to improve our
produce.
PROGRAMS of the
GOVERNMENT
Republic Act No. 6657 (CARP)
• AN ACT INSTITUTING A
COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN
REFORM PROGRAM TO PROMOTE
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND
INDUSTRIALIZATION, PROVIDING
THE MECHANISM FOR ITS
IMPLEMENTATION, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1988/06/10/republic-act-no-6657/
Program for Unified Lending to Agriculture (PUNLA)
The PUNLA is a credit facility under the Agro-Industry Modernization Credit and Financing Program (AMCFP). It
aims to address the financial needs of marginal farmers and fisherfolk for fast, convenient and affordable credit
to strengthen delivery of agricultural credit and increase outreach to more small farmers and fishers. The
program is grounded on four (4) strategic pillars, namely: (i) Make credit access easy and convenient; (ii) Bring
down interest rates; (iii) Expand credit delivery channels; and (iv) Ensure sustainability of credit.
Kapital Access for Young Agripreneurs (KAYA)
http://210.5.72.214/acpc/programs/kapital-access-for-young-agripreneurs-kaya/
Agri-Negosyo Loan Program (ANYO)