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    Agriculture Vs Industrialization.

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    The Philippine agriculture sector is facing a crisis due to decreasing productivity, high costs, and lack of government support over the past two decades. This has led to stagnating rural incomes and increased poverty. While economic development has brought infrastructure and jobs, it has also replaced fertile agricultural lands and left many farmers without livelihoods. The government now recognizes the need to modernize and invest in agriculture to ensure food security, reduce poverty, and take advantage of the country's natural resources and large agricultural workforce. Upgrading the sector could allow the Philippines to become globally competitive while meeting domestic food needs.

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    Agriculture Vs Industrialization.

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    The Philippine agriculture sector is facing a crisis due to decreasing productivity, high costs, and lack of government support over the past two decades. This has led to stagnating rural incomes and increased poverty. While economic development has brought infrastructure and jobs, it has also replaced fertile agricultural lands and left many farmers without livelihoods. The government now recognizes the need to modernize and invest in agriculture to ensure food security, reduce poverty, and take advantage of the country's natural resources and large agricultural workforce. Upgrading the sector could allow the Philippines to become globally competitive while meeting domestic food needs.

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    The Philippine agriculture sector is facing a crisis due to decreasing productivity, high costs, and lack of government support over the past two decades. This has led to stagnating rural incomes and increased poverty. While economic development has brought infrastructure and jobs, it has also replaced fertile agricultural lands and left many farmers without livelihoods. The government now recognizes the need to modernize and invest in agriculture to ensure food security, reduce poverty, and take advantage of the country's natural resources and large agricultural workforce. Upgrading the sector could allow the Philippines to become globally competitive while meeting domestic food needs.

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    Agriculture Vs Industrialization.

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    The Philippine agriculture sector is facing a crisis due to decreasing productivity, high costs, and lack of government support over the past two decades. This has led to stagnating rural incomes and increased poverty. While economic development has brought infrastructure and jobs, it has also replaced fertile agricultural lands and left many farmers without livelihoods. The government now recognizes the need to modernize and invest in agriculture to ensure food security, reduce poverty, and take advantage of the country's natural resources and large agricultural workforce. Upgrading the sector could allow the Philippines to become globally competitive while meeting domestic food needs.

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    Agriculture: Dying Industry

    OBSERVATION

    Philippines is rich. The natural resources that blessed our lands are our greatest advantage.
    Philippines’ climate is perfect for planting and growing crops. It helped us feed our empty stomachs.
    Empty. Why? Agricultural lands are being developed into commercial, industrial and residential lands.
    Rice terraces were now blazing roads, towering buildings and busy streets. It would've been making me
    happy seeing how our country has been developing. You can get the things you need in stores nearby,
    you can go to places that you want to go using different kinds of transportation, tourism has been
    making our country known all throughout the world but why can't these changes make me happy?
    Maybe because I can see these street children, beggars wherever you go. These hungry minds and
    stomachs are bothering me to the point that I am questioning our government decisions. Aren't they
    wise enough to choose to follow the trend without even seeing how their people are suffering?

    INSIGHT

    The general trends in the last two decades present a dim picture of the agriculture sector.
    Significant decrease in productivity, high production costs, and low government support to the sector,
    among other things, have led to a crisis in Philippine agriculture (CIDA-LGSP, 2003).The neglect of the
    agriculture sector and the uneven distribution of resources worsened the poverty situation in rural
    areas. Only the remittances of migrant workers to their families have enabled the latter to survive
    crippling poverty brought about by stagnant agricultural productivity, stiff competition from cheaper
    food imports, and periodic droughts and floods that devastated crops and livelihoods (Fact Sheet
    Philippines, 2021).

    “Food security is our overarching goal, second to the public health concerns. The food security of
    our people during this pandemic has been and will always be the paramount goal of the Philippine
    government.” Secretary Dar shared that as the pandemic showed the weakness of Philippine agriculture,
    it taught the government to confront the many challenges head-on. He said increasing productivity to
    guarantee adequate food supply remains the primary goal of the department and added that the agency
    focused on key commodities such as rice, livestock, poultry, corn, vegetables, and coconut industry.
    (DAR,2021) Investing in upgrading the agricultural sector can provide higher possibility to reduce
    poverty and ensure a huge quantity of food production in the Philippines.
    LEARNING

    Large portions of Filipinos are supporting themselves through agriculture. Farming, forestry,
    livestock and fisheries became a source of income especially to Filipinos who doesn’t finish their studies.
    It is has hard for them to enter the industry without finishing a degree first.

    Our country is trying their best to keep up. Straining itself to follow the path of those well-
    developed and rich countries. We are in line with the countries with fastest-growing economies but the
    need to adjust to the global demands is making it hard. It is just the cause and effect, the process is a
    gruesome fact that our leaders have been turning a blind-eye on. What do they need to do to keep-up?

    People need food and shelter, both will be found in nature. Philippines owned several million
    hectares of fertile lands. Its agricultural sector employs about 30% of the population. Rice, coconut,
    pineapple and sugarcanes are the top crops that are being cultivated in this rich soil. Traditional
    methods of farming are strenuous so modernizing and upgrading the country’s agricultural sector will be
    very helpful for Filipino farmers. This should be the main focus of the government, to make sure that
    everyone is fed, clothed and secured by any means. Once this major goal reached, the country can now
    go forward and be globally competitive as a strong and united country.

    This Covid-19 pandemic caught us off-guard. Many employees were forced not to work resulting
    to hunger and increase in poverty rate. Without their jobs they have no means of getting money to buy
    their basic necessities. Having a little vegetable garden on their backyard eases the hunger for a while. It
    was a simple solution that I saw Filipinos do. Staying at home and no job to rely on, they grow their own
    food. Can our country use its blessings to the fullest? We are not given a land rich with natural resources
    for nothing, right?

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