Agricultural Values In The Philippines

Compose of more than 7 100 islands, the Philippines; with the total of eleven large islands and small peninsulas and cays, overall land range of 95 percent. The country is divided into three major island groups: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Year 2010, the population of the country reached in approximated numbers of 92,337,852 established by Census Population and Housing. In 5 years backward, 50 percent of the community is women. The vast growing number of humanity in the country hinders the development of its own. Addressing the ambition of reducing the number of scarcity level is government’s one great challenge but the visibility of the goal is unseen. In 2000, Filipinos living under poverty figure is one-third of the total countries population

Others are chicken broiler production, including operation of chicken hatcheries (20.4 percent), agricultural services (19.8 percent), and hog farming (18.4 percent). Major agricultural systems include lowland irrigated farming, rainfed farming and upland farming. In irrigated farm a land where rice and sugarcane mostly grow while rainfed area plant like coconut, corn and cassava. The Philippines major agricultural products include rice, coconuts, corn, bananas, pineapples, mangoes, sugarcane, tobacco and abaca. Other variety crops are garlic, cabbage, onion, eggplant, calamansi (other variation of lemon), peanut, cassava, rubber and cotton. With regards to farming, they actively do cultivation, in rice harvest women do the manual harvesting like pulling and bundling also planting and transplanting, in sugarcane farming by applying fertilization and weeding and for taking care of crops and harvesting, and others where in there is a minimum force is needed Other agricultural sector is the fisheries, Philippines generates great income from yields millions of tons from fishing industry. An increase of yields from fisheries with limits in catchment areas for the sustainability of the biodiversity in the ecosystem and relatively employment is sustain or will increase if demand of fish increase. Employment in this field is divided into 2 categories: the direct and indirect employment from millions numbers of people in need.

They are indigenous women, whose role is distinguished by their community. An indigenous woman is respected as the caretaker and a strong stability of the communities primitive knowledge system in the maintenance of traditional resources. In crop production, women in this system ensure the good quality of production, availability of food being served on the table, and maintaining the traditional plant-based medicine for the