"Farmworkers play a vital role in cultivating the food we eat every day". Even though 85 percent of our fruits and vegetables are harvested by hand, farmworkers remain largely invisible.
Agricultural labor includes planting, cultivating, harvesting and preparing crops for market or storage. Afarmer’s work can be very hard. Hours are long, often sunrise to sunset. During planting and harvesting seasons, crop farmers rarely have days off. The rest of the year, they sell their crops, fix machinery, and plan for the next year.
The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country despite the plan to make it an industrialized economy by 2000. Most citizens still live in rural areas and support themselves through agriculture. The country’s agriculture sector is made up of 4 sub-sectors: farming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry.
The country’s main agricultural crops are rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca. Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote(a type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi(a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton. The year 1998 was a bad day year for ariculture because of adverse weather conditions. The Philippines exports its agricultural products around the world, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and ASEAN countries.
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| "Farmworkers play a vital role in cultivating the food we eat every day" |
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| "Helps the Surrounding Clean and Green" |
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| "Our Contemporary" |
MAJOR EXPORT PRODUCTS
● Coconut Oil & other coconut products
● Fruits
● Vegetables
● Bananas
● Prawns(a type of shrimp)
● Cavendish banana
● Cayenne pineapple
● Tuna
● Seaweed
● Carrageen
One of the most pressing concerns of the agricultural sector is the rampant conversation of agricultural land into golf courses, residential subdivisions, and industrial parks of resorts.
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| "source of income" |
Small land-holders find it more profitable to sell their land to developers in exchange for cash specially since they lack capital for seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and wages for hiring workers to plant and harvest the crops.
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| "Hardworking" |
Another concern is farmer’s continued reliance on chemical-based fertilizers or pesticides that have destroyed soil productivity over time. In recent years however, farmers have been slowly tuning to organic fertilizer, or at least to a combination of chemical and organic inputs in addition, environmental damage is another major concern.
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Farming is not as fun as Farmville. Somewhere in the mountains are unsung heroes who work so hard without complaining so they could provide us with food basic needs for their families at home.
ILUVfarmers is a fundraising and awareness campaign spearheaded by the Team CPMPC scholars of the Ramon Aboitiz Inc. for the “Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan” program of the Municipality of Consolacion.
What is Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan?
It is currently being done in the Municipality of Consolacion with over 180 farmers. Every Friday, Farmers gather at the farm demo site in a 5,000 square meter agricultural land in Baragay Danglang, Consolacion to take part in the training given by Harbest Agribusiness Corporation.
Farming is not as fun as Farmville. Somewhere in the mountains are unsung heroes who work so hard without complaining so they could provide us with food basic needs for their families at home.
ILUVfarmers is a fundraising and awareness campaign spearheaded by the Team CPMPC scholars of the Ramon Aboitiz Inc. for the “Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan” program of the Municipality of Consolacion.
What is Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan?
It is currently being done in the Municipality of Consolacion with over 180 farmers. Every Friday, Farmers gather at the farm demo site in a 5,000 square meter agricultural land in Baragay Danglang, Consolacion to take part in the training given by Harbest Agribusiness Corporation.
The program has graduated more than 2,000 farmers nationwide in different farm sites. Because of it, farmers have learned about intensitive dual-tech hands-on traiing on commercial production technology for different vegetables and short-term fruits such as melon, watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, squash, ampalaya, sweet corn and papaya.
Iluvfarmers is another project of the Young Minds Academy (YMA) Season5 Scholars of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI). Team4 Generation A Team CPMPC members are Jaysee John R. Pingkian, Lorbe Catadman, Babykit Marie R. Nuñez, Irish L. Nuñez and John Rhecel V. Solon.
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