1. PHILIPPINES
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

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

6. 1.) AGRICULTURAL CROPS
ex. palay, corn…other
Agricultural products
2.) SUBSECTORS
Fisheries, livestock and
poultry

7. 3.) FORESTRY
Logging, Afforestation, minor
farm products
Refers to farming/ production
of agrcultural crops

8. >Satisfy only >Sells the
“substinence” of family product
or clan locally/abroad

9. MEDIUM SCALE: farmmain
source of the family’s daily
food needs.
LARGE SCALE: vast land
planted to a single crop,
for the export market

10. MANUAL
MANUAL MACHINERIES
MACHINERIES
THRESHING
THRESHING FARM
FARM

11. THE IMPORTANCE OF
AGRICULTURE
Article II (Declaration of
Principles)
Sec. 21 “The State shall
promote comprehensive
rural development and
agrarian reform”
J and Ma

17. REFERENCE : BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL
STATISTICS

18. AGRICULTURE’S
VITAL FUNCTIONS
• 1.) PROVIDER OF FOOD AND
ECONOMIC SECURITY
-feed the populations

19. 2.) SOURCE OF RAW
MATERIALS FOR INDUSTRY

21. 3.) MARKET FOR INDUSTRY’S
PRODUCTS
*As earnings from agriculture increase,
the demand for industrial products
increases.
Ex. Fertilizers, machines
4.) SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD
* Agriculture employs 35% of the
labor force.

22. 5.) SOURCE OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Coconut = country’s top agricultural export
6.) CONTRIBUTOR TO
NATIONAL INCOME
- increase in Gross value of
Agricultural production.

25. LIVESTOCK
Year 2007 2008 2009 Total
Carabao 136,959 140,423 140,910 418,292
Cattle 236,871 239,156 245,100 721,127
Hog 1.8 M 1.9 M 1.9 M 5.6 M
Goat 76,558 78,009 77,379 231,946
Source: Bureau Agricultural
Statistics

26. POULTRY AND EGGS
Year 2007 2008 2009 Total
Chicken
1.2 M 1.3 M 1.3 M 3.8 M
Duck 42,456 39,206 35,928 117,590
Chicken
eggs 335,104 350,789 368,464 1.1 M
Duck 129,061
eggs 46,990 42,454 39,617
M
Source: Bureau Agricultural
Statistics

27. FISHERIES
Year 2007 2008 2009 Total
Fisheries 4.8 M 5M 5M 14.8 M
Source: Bureau Agricultural
Statistics

28. A.UNSTABLE PRICES
A.UNSTABLE PRICES
-If floods damage lower
production, prices of
farm products, fishes &
livestock rise

29. B. LACK OF RURAL
B. LACK OF RURAL
INFRASTRACTURE &
INFRASTRACTURE &
AGRICULTURAL
AGRICULTURAL
EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
-lack of roads and bridges
slow down product
transport from farm to
market cause spoilage.

31. C. LACK OF
C. LACK OF
COMPETITIVENESS IN
COMPETITIVENESS IN
THE GLOBAL MARKETS
THE GLOBAL MARKETS
-our outdated technologies
-over-dependence on weather

32. INSTITUTIONS HELPING
THE AGRICULTURAL
SECTOR
Primary body for
agricultural activities
Sec. Proceso J. Alcala

33. Implementation of Agrarian
Reform Sec. Virgilio Almario
Activies concerning the
environment, forests and
wildlife Sec. Lito Atienza

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

35. In charge for the Fisheries sector
Regulates the grains
industry,food security program,
distributing basic commodities

36. SUGGESTIONS
1.) Construct rural infrastructures such as
irrigation systems
2.) Give farmers the chance to own the
land they till
3.)Agricultural technology must be
improved  fertilizers, machines and
equipments

38. 4.)Institutions helping the sector must
be funded
5.) farmers, fisherfolk other workers
must be educated/trained
6.)Government must support
cooperatives of farmers, fisherfolk and
livestock producers

41. -association of at least 15
individuals who combine their
resources money, labor,
knowledge, to attain mutually
beneficial goal.

42. >Consumers’ Cooperatives
>Farmers Cooperatives
>Producers’ Cooperatives
>Multipurpose
Cooperatives

44. -in charge for the
registration and regulation
of cooperatives

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

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

47. Accumulated profits are
returned to members in the
form of dividends