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Review of Related Literature The Philippines is considered to be one of the world’s agricultural countries occupying a total land area of 300 million hectares and 47% of which is agricultural land (“Agriculture”, n.d.). Agricultural products such as rice sugarcane, coconut, banana, pineapple, mango, coffee, maize, and cassava are manufactured in the country both for import and for export. It is listed as the world’s eighth-largest rice producer expanding its rice area harvested from 3.8 million hectares in 1995 to 4.4 million hectares in 2010 resulting in the country’s production increased by a third, from 10.5 million in 1995 to 15.8 million in 2010 (“Philippines”, n.d.). Most Filipinos across the country consumes rice as a staple food for survival and thus grown in …show more content…

“The major rice-producing parts of the country are Central Luzon (18.7%), western Visayas (11.3%), Cagayan Valley (11%), Ilocos region (9.8%), SOCCSKSARGEN (7.5%), and Bicol region (6.8%).” (“Philippines”, n.d.). Ilocos Region or Region I is composed of the provinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, La Union and Pangasinan. Among these provinces, the best agricultural lands, both plains and lowlands, are located mostly in Pangasinan and along the coastal area of La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte (“Region I : Ilocos”, 1977). The peoples of the flood plains of Central Luzon, including those from Pangasinan were already wet-rice agriculturists at the time of the Spanish conquest (Cortes, 1991). It was also articulated by Cortes (1991) that the rice produced by the people can serve both for subsistence and for trade. In this case, rice farming is considered to be both a source of food and a source of income

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