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REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURE 1999

    
 

INITIATION OF THE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM


Notwithstanding budgetary constraints, the Department has begun in earnest the framework for agriculture and fisheries modernization. Core components of Agrikulturang MakaMASA, the President's Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Program launched late last year, were initiated.

 
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.  
       
 

 
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).  
       
 

 
Prioritization and rationalization of the infrastructure and postharvest facilities programs, necessary for the efficient integration of producers and markets, lower costs and enhance competitiveness.  
       
 

 
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.  
       
 

 
Increasing access by farmers and fisherfolk to credit while pursuing a deliberately phased consolidation of all rural credit programs.  
       
 

 
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.  
       
 

 
Launching and implementation of integrated area development programs, as in the Mindanao Integrated Rural Development Program, under full partnership with LGUs.  
       
 

 
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.  
       
 

 
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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