The Agriculture SectorPresented by: Eduarte, Wendell Aries S.

BSE- Social StudiesSS 7- 11 MW 2:30- 4:00 pm.

Dr. Ronnie G. Cainglet

Is a science of cultivating the soil, harvesting crops, and raising livestock. All activities concerning plants and animals are related to Agriculture.

Agriculture

1. Crop Production

Activities involved in Agriculture

2. Horticulture

3. Forestry

4. Animal Production

5. Aqua Culture

The agricultural sector serve as a supplier of raw materials needed by the industries.

The raw material help the industries in carrying out of their activities.

Example: the sugar is needed in the manufacturing of consumer products like produced juice and chocolate drinks comes from the agricultural sector.

Importance of Agriculture

Consumer of industrial products- example consumer product like clothes, shoes, soap, sugar and some processed food.

Provides employment Dollar earner- example exportation of

our local products like tilapia, big shrimp, banana, sugar, abaca, nata de coco, etc.

Other Importance of Agriculture

Lack of Modern equipment Insufficient infrastructure Lack of capital No concrete program for land

ownership Low prices Competition from foreign products

Problems of agriculture sector.

Impose restriction on foreign agricultural commodities that enter the country.

Provide infrastructure projects like warehouses, irrigation system, bridges, and farm to market roads.

Include in the budget allocation and allotment the needs of farmers.

Provide subsidy for small farmers.

Solutions to Agricultural Problems

Established cooperatives and rural banks that will give loans to farmers and fishermen.

Disseminate information on how to use the modern technology on agriculture.

Lower taxes imposed on imported equipment and machineries of agriculture.

Set a reasonable price on agricultural products. Implement the agrarian reform law.

1. Land reform Is a program that aims to provide lands to the

farmer’s. It involves the transfer and control of land

ownership to the tillers and farmers. Providing aid and services to the farmers,

protecting the price of agricultural products, infrastructure, and establishment farmer’s cooperative.

Agrarian Reform

Land registration Act of 1902- During the American period, all land titles of the Filipinos must be registered upon the implementation of the Torrens System.

Public land act of 1902- all public lands were distributed to the families who till the land. Every family has the right to own not more than 16 families.

Laws on Land reform

Republic act 1160- the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA) was established to manage the distribution of lands to the rebel returnees and their families who were still landless. This is part of the effort of President Ramon Magsaysay.

Republic act 1190 of 1954- provides security and protection to the Kasama or farm workers against abuses, maltreatment, and cheating of the owners of the land they till.

Agricultural land reform code- land workers are the true and real owners of the land. The law abolished the Kasama system. President Diosdado Macapagal signed it into law in 1963.

Presidential Decree no. 2 of 1972- According to the provision PD no. 2 of 1972 the entire Philippines is under land reform, which was declared by President Ferdinand Marcos.

 

Presidential Decree no. 27- Simultaneous with PD no. 2, PD no. 27 was implemented for free the farmers from the chain of poverty and transfer to them the ownership of the land that they cultivate.

Lands planted by palay and corns were covered by this law.

Wide land area planted with coconut, sugar cane, pineapple, etc. are not included.

Republic act 6657 of 1988- known as COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW (CARL) approved by former President Corazon Aquino in 1988.

Republic act 6657 of 1988- known as COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW (CARL) approved by former President Corazon Aquino in 1988.

All public and private agricultural lands are covered in the law.

The law distributed all agricultural lands regardless of their use to the farmers who do not have their own land.

The lands that are not under the CARP is: parks, national defense, church/temples, forest and reforestation areas, fishponds, school, cemetery, and water shed.

Thank you!