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Increasing access by farmers, fisherfolk and producers
to inputs particularly high quality seed/planting materials (Binhiang Panlalawigan), other genetic materials and fertilizers.
EO 133, implementing the trade and fiscal incentives provision
(Sec. 109) of AFMA, exempts from tariffs and duties inputs to
agriculture and fisheries enterprises. |
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Fast tracking irrigation and watershed development
with particular emphasis on resource multiplying counterpart
schemes with LGUs and stakeholders to rehabilitate communal irrigation
systems. (Balikatan
Sagip Patubig). |
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Prioritization and rationalization of the infrastructure
and postharvest facilities programs, necessary for the efficient
integration of producers and markets, lower costs and enhance
competitiveness. |
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Implementation of the recently rationalized research
and development and extension framework to enable a demand-driven
system of technology development and utilization for farmers
and fisherfolk. |
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Increasing access by farmers and fisherfolk to
credit while pursuing a deliberately phased consolidation of
all rural credit programs. |
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Initiation of definite steps to ensure food safety
and the improvement of product quality with the formal organization
of the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards
as mandated by AFMA. |
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Launching and implementation of integrated area
development programs, as in the Mindanao Integrated Rural Development
Program, under full partnership with LGUs. |
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The creation of a more conducive policy environment
for a more globally competitive sector through a calculated,
rather than unbridled, trade liberalization framework that supports,
rather than harms, our development aspirations. |
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Initiation of the reorientation of the DA bureaucracy
along functional lines to better enable the organization to fulfill
its modernization and developmental mandate under the AFMA. |
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