Land-holders find it more profitable to sell their land to developers inĮxchange for cash, especially since they lack capital for seeds,įertilizers, pesticides, and wages for hiring workers to plant and Losing irrigated rice lands at a rate of 2,300 hectares per year. Subdivisions, and industrial parks or resorts. Rampant conversion of agricultural land into golf courses, residential One of the most pressing concerns of the agricultural sector is the Malt and malt flour, urea, flour, meals and pellets of fish, soybeans Include unmilled wheat and meslin, oilcake and other soybean residues, Value of coconut-product exports amounted to US$989 million in 1995 butĭeclined to US$569 million by 2000. Other exports include theĬavendish banana, Cayenne pineapple, tuna, seaweed, and carrageenan. Major export productsĪre coconut oil and other coconut products, fruits and vegetables,īananas, and prawns (a type of shrimp). Of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations). Including the United States, Japan, Europe, and ASEAN countries (members The Philippines exports its agricultural products around the world, The sector is burdened with low productivity for most of its Yet, hogįarming and commercial fishing posted declines in their gross revenues Sector output shrankīy 8.3 percent, but it posted growth the following year.
The year 1998 was a bad year forĪgriculture because of adverse weather conditions. Type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a
Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote (a Sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca (aīanana-like plant). The country's main agricultural crops are rice, corn, coconut, Very small), which together employ 39.8 percent of the TheĬountry's agriculture sector is made up of 4 sub-sectors:įarming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry (the latter 2 sectors are Live in rural areas and support themselves through agriculture. Plan to make it an industrialized economy by 2000. The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country despite the
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