Philippine Farm Growth Forecasted at 3%-4% in 2012

The country’s farm sector could increase its output by 3 percent to 4 percent if the Philippines will not be hit by typhoons as strong as “Pedring” in 2012, the University of Asia and the Pacific’s Center for Food and Agribusiness (UAP-CFA) said.

UAP-CFA Executive Director Rolando T. Dy said the crops subsector which include palay and corn would drive farm growth for 2012. The poultry and aquaculture sectors will also boost the output of the sector.

“A 3 percent to 4 percent growth is doable under normal weather in 2012. But if we get hit by another Pedring-type typhoon, the farm sector may be hard pressed to grow by this much,” said Dy in a text message.

For 2011, the government has already scaled down its growth expectations for the farm sector to a range of 3 percent to 3.5 percent due to the destruction caused by typhoons in the last quarter of the year.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) had expected farm growth for 2011 to reach 5 percent “barring any adverse conditions.”

Figures from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) showed that the country’s farm sector grew by 4.28 percent on the back of the good performance of the crops subsector in January to September.

The combined good performance of palay and corn caused the production of the crops subsector to increase by 9.04 percent during the period. The subsector accounted for 50 percent of total farm output. The production of palay alone accounts for around 15 percent of farm output at any given time.

Palay production reached 10.75 million metric tons (MMT), 16 percent higher than what was produced in January to September last year. Corn output also grew by almost 16 percent to 5.49 MMT.

For the whole of 2011, however, the DA said the Philippines will be hard pressed to produce more than 17 million metric tons (MMT) of unmilled rice due to the havoc wreaked by a number of typhoons in the second half.

Documents from the DA revealed that the six typhoons that ravaged the Philippines from June to October last year destroyed a total of 902,285 metric tons (MT) of unmilled rice.

Because of the adverse impact of the typhoons, the “Rice and Corn Situation Outlook” released by the BAS showed that palay production for the whole of 2011 will reach 16.68 MMT, lower than the initial projection of 17.4 MMT.

BAS said paddy rice output for July to December may decline by 0.6 percent year on year. Unmilled rice production for the period is seen at 9.1 MMT.

For the main harvest during the months of October to December, the attached agency of the DA said output may settle at 5.93 MMT, 8.8 percent lower than last year’s level of 6.5 MMT based on standing crops.

Typhoons Pedring and Quiel, BAS noted, will cause the harvest area to contract by 8.6 percent and yield per hectare to go down by 0.3 percent.

By Business Mirror


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President Aquino Organic Farming Support Programs

Aquino: Allot 2% of DA budget for organic farming.

President Aquino directed the Department of Agriculture to ensure that 2 percent of its annual budget be allocated for the implementation of its programs and policies on organic agriculture.

The President gave the directive in his speech at the 8th National Organic Agriculture Conference at the Aquino Center of Hacienda Luisita here.

“Inaasahan ko ang tuloy-tuloy na pagdodoble-kayod ng Department of Agriculture sa pagbuo at pagpapatupad ng mga polisiya at programa na magpapabilis sa pag-unlad ng organic farming sa bansa, sa ilalim ng kanilang National Organic Agriculture Program,” the President said.

“Katuwang naman ang Department of Budget and Management, sisiguruhin natin na mailalaan ng DA ang hindi bababa sa dalawang porsiyento ng kanilang taunang budget sa pagpapatupad sa nabanggit na programa, alinsunod sa RA 10068,” he added.

Republic Act 10068, otherwise known as Organic Agriculture Act of 2010, strengthens the state’s policy to promote, propagate, develop further and implement the practice of organic agriculture in the Philippines.

The President is promoting organic agriculture as a means to address the issue of food security in the country.

“Habang pinapalawak natin ang access ng bawat pamilya sa sapat na pagkain, kailangan din nating pag-igtingin ang pagpapalaganap ng mga kaalaman at teknolohiya na magpapanumbalik sa kalusugan ng mga lupang sakahan,” the President said.

“Dito pumapasok ang halaga ng organic agriculture,” he added.

The President said that through organic agriculture, farmers are ensured of cumulatively conditioning and enriching the fertility of the soil, increase farm productivity, reduce pollution and destruction of the environment, prevent depletion of natural resources, and further protect the health of farmers, consumers and the general public.

He added that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has determined that organic agriculture has the potential to increase farm productivity, thereby increasing farmers’ wages and provide food for all.

“Makakatulong din ito sa pagbaba ng gastos sa pagsasaka,” the President added. (PNA)

In Photo Above: President Aquino, assisted by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, presents to Benjamin Lao the Gawad Saka Outstanding Organic Farmer Award during the 8th National Organic Agriculture Conference at the Aquino Center, Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac, on Tuesday

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Philippine Coffee Industry Update

The Philippine Coffee Industry Needs ‘To Run’ to Overtake Vietnam

Despite having been overtaken by Vietnam as a top coffee producer in the Asian region, players in the Philippine coffee industry remain upbeat as the government hiked by P63 million its financial support to the industry.

“The coffee sector needs to run, not walk, if it wants to play catch up with Vietnam,” Rolando T. Dy of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) said on Thursday during the Fourth National Coffee Summit.

However, Dy, executive director of the UA&P Center for Food and Agribusiness, noted that it will be difficult to even approximate the production level of Vietnam without a road map “and if the industry road map is tied to an incumbent.”

“It should cover 10 to 15 years so we’re looking at 2020 or even better, 2025 for the Philippines,” Dy told the BusinessMirror on the sidelines of the coffee conference in Makati City.

According to Philippine Coffee Board (PCB) Director Emmanuel U. Torrejon, the Philippines’s coffee production continued to decline to nearly 23,000 metric tons last year from 40,620 MT in 1999 and 61,080 MT in 1992.

Vietnam continued to increase coffee production from 83,400 MT nine years ago to 1.11 million metric tons last year.

“It’s still mission possible,” Environment Assistant Secretary Marlo D. Mendoza said in the same conference.

Mendoza noted that the aim to hike coffee production can be included in the government’s National Convergence Initiative (NCI) program that has allotted 10 large tracks of agricultural lands with high production potential.

Mendoza said coffee producers can plant in areas allotted for cultivation of the total 750 million hectares targeted for greening by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

Agrarian Reform Undersecretary Jerry E. Pacturan added that the coffee farmers can also tap the Department of Agrarian Reform’s financial support of P13,400 a hectare for coffee planting.

Pacturan told the BusinessMirror that coffee farmers through the PCB can also tap other agencies involved in the NCI, foremost being the Department of Agriculture (DA), to increase the funding support.

Mendoza said they are also proposing an environmental cash-transfer program that coffee farmers, especially those in the upland, can enjoy in exchange for certain services like purposive planting, as well as demand certain standards and behaviors under the National Greening Program.

PCB official Pacita Juan told the BusinessMirror that they are overwhelmed with the pledges of support from the government.

Juan explained that the DA has allocated an initial P100 million next year for the propagation of coffee.

“That’s enough for the moment,” she said.

Dwindling harvest has undercut the local market’s capability to meet increasing coffee consumption in the Philippines, which was only at 49,200 MT a decade ago to 77,400 MT last year, according to Torrejon.

The country, hence, was forced to hike imports of coffee from 47,700 MT in 2008 to 54,420 MT last year.

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China Philippines Developing New Rice Hybrids

China and PHL Center Helps Develop New Rice Hybrids

To help boost farmers’ production in the next five years, the People’s Republic of China is helping the Philippines breed new rice hybrids through a project implemented by the Philippine-Sino Center for Agricultural Technology (PhilSCAT).

In a statement, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) said this is the second part of the technical cooperation project of the PhilSCAT. The project aims to use the Philippiness local and China’s rice germplasm to create new hybrids.

The project, which begins this month, will also introduce China’s hybrid-rice varieties, as well as extend farm technologies to farmers in the Philippines. The project is being implemented in Nueva Ecija.

“The hybrid-rice varieties to be introduced and the hybrid-rice lines developed during the project’s first phase will be tested in six locations in Luzon. PhilSCAT, in collaboration with PhilRice bred seven promising hybrid-rice lines in the project’s first implementation in 2003-08,” PhilRice said.

Under the signed Minutes of Discussion and Implementation Plan, represented by Yuanxing Fang of China’s Yuan Longping High Tech Agriculture Co. Ltd. and Dante de Lima of the Department of Agriculture, PhilRice will help in testing the field performance of the introduced Chinese hybrids.

The project will also include the harnessing of biogas using China-developed techniques.  Dr. Jose Falla, head of the PhilSCAT Knowledge Management Division, said the research and development on biogas will be prioritized for farmers to adopt the technology in their households.

Hybrid rice in tropical countries like the Philippines can increase farmers’ yield by at least 15 percent over the best inbred. A maximum yield of 12 tons per hectare is also possible with proper management and favorable environment.

China, a rice self-sufficient country supporting its 1.3 billion population, recently set its third world record in rice production when Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, and his team announced the 13.9 t/ha harvest of a new “super hybrid rice” in Longhui County in Hunan province.

China Daily reported that Yuan’s research team first made their record in 2000 when their variety reached 10.5 t/ha and in 2004, when the new hybrid rice registered 12 t/ha.

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