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Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry. Its outputs include staples like rice and corn, but also export crops such as coffee, cavendish banana, pineapple and pineapple products, coconut, sugar, and mango. [ 1 ]
The Department of Agriculture (abbreviated as DA; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the promotion of agricultural and fisheries development and growth. [3] It has its headquarters at Elliptical Road corner Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
Emergence of agriculture in the Philippines. The means by which agriculture expanded into the Philippines is argued by many different anthropologists and an exact date of its origin is unknown. [1][2][3][4] However, there are proxy indicators and other pieces of evidence that allow anthropologists to get an idea of when different crops reached ...
The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) was created by virtue of Executive Order 116 signed in 1987. It is mandated to ensure that agricultural research are coordinated and undertaken for maximum utility to agriculture. The EO requires the Bureau to tap farmers, farmers’ organizations and research institutions especially state colleges and ...
By 2021, rice production (palay) in the Philippines reached 20.0 million metric tons (MMT), a 3.5% increase from 2020, despite rice imports rising to 2.9 MMT. The RTL has significantly influenced the management of inflation in the rice sector since its implementation and serves as an approach for potential reforms in the agricultural sector of ...
Agricultural research facilities of the college are located off the main campus of CPU – the 90+ hectare CPU Hopevale Agricultural and Research Land in Katipunan, Tapaz, Capiz, is dedicated solely for the institution's research and propagation of crops and plantations that grows in highlands; the 19.3 hectares CPU Zarraga Farm (CPU Zarraga ...
Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on November 5, 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies for farmers. The Institute accomplishes this mission through research and development work in ...
The Philippines' Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (Filipino: Kawanihan ng mga Pamantayan sa Produktong Pansaka at Pampangisdaan, abbreviated as BAFS), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for setting and implementing standards for fresh primary and secondary processed agricultural and fishery products.