Agricultural Engineering Laws, Documents, Certifications Flashcards
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Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, is what R. A
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R.A 10915
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An act promoting agricultural and fisheries mechanization developmentin the country.
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RA No. 10601
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Known as the “Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanization (aFMech) law.
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RA no. 10601
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Refers to machinery and equipment for the production, harvesting, processing, storage, manufacture, preserving, transporting, and distribution of agricultural and fisheries products.
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Agricultural and fisheries machinery
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Refers to development, adopt, assembly, manufacture and application of appropriate, location specific and cost-effective agricultural and fisheries machinery using human, animal, mechanical, electrical, renewable and other non-conventional sources of energy for agricultural production and post harvest /postproduction operations.
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Agricultural and fisheries mechanization
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Refers to the local activity or series of activities to maintain or raise the quality change the form or characteristics of agricultural, fisheries and forestry products.
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Agro-industrial processing
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Refers to any boat, ship, or other water craft of three (3) gross tons or less, equipped to be used for taking of fishery species or aiding or assisting one (1) or more vessels in the performance of any activity relating to fishing including, but not limited to, preservation, supply, storage refrigeration, transportation and/or processing.
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Fishing boat
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It promotes the adoption of certified agricultural and fisheries machinery for improving agriculture and fishery productivity.
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The National Agri-fishery Mechanization Program
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Oversees the implementation of the National Agri-fishwry Mechanization Program by the vaious units of the Department.
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Program Implementation
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Design and testing of new mchineries and equipment for agriculture and fisheries.
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Unified National Research and Development (R&D) and Extension Agenda
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Organized and composed of research and educational institutions, LGUs, nongov’t orgs and the recognized and well-established associations of agricultural and fisheries machinery assemblers, manufacturers and distributors, agricultural engineers, farmers and fisherfolk.
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Agri-fisheries Mechanization RDE Network
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Custom plowing, harrowing, harvesting, drying, milling and other farm mechanization services.
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agri-fisheries Mchinery and Equipment Service Centers.
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It will also be used or tapped as a facility for the online registration of agri-fisheries machinery and equipment, and monitoring of agri-fiaheries machanization and infrastructure projects.
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Agri-fisheries Mechanization and Engineering Resource Network
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To enhance research and technological dev’t on agricultural and fisheries mechanization, the government through Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) of the DA, the DOST and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) shall provide this competitive ___________.
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Research Grants
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Train the farmers and fisherfolk on agricultural and fisheries mechanization technologies and practices.
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Training and Scholarship Program
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Shall have this required blank blank of licensed agricultural engineers and certified technicians and operators, in accordance with the guidelines and standards to be promulgated.
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Manpower Complement
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Skills certification and accreditation systems for agricultural and fishery machinery operators and technicians.
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Skills Certification of Agricultural Machinery Technicians and Operators
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Production of locally made engines and other machinery for agricultural and fisheries purposes.
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Local Assembling and Manufacturing.
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Ventures in local manufacture, fabrication and assembly of agri-fiaheries machinery and equipment.
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Incentives for Local Manufactures and Assemblers of Agri-fisheries Machinery
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Al agricultural and fisheries machinery assemblers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers, distributors
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After-Sales Service
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The first agricultural engineering law was enacted by the 5th congress of the Philippines in 1964.
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RA 3972
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An Act of Regulating the Practice of Agricultural Engineering in the Phils. (known as the thr Philippines Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998) was enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 1998
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RA 8559
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Is a theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.
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Natural or Scientific Law
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Constitutional law basic laws of ntion of nation states and other political orgs serving as framework for government to execute new laws and regulations.
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Governmental Law
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Shall refer to the profession requiring the application of the fundamental and known principles of engineering to the peculiar conditon and requirements of agriculture as an industry and as field of science.
Practice of agricultural engineering
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Natural person who has been issued a certificate of registration by the Board of Agricultural Engineering and has taken the oath of profeasion of agricultural engineers.
Agricultural engineer
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An act promoting the dev't, utilization and commercialization of renewable energy resources and for other purposes
RA 9513
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Refers to the conveyance of electricity by a Distribution Utility through its distribution system
Distribution of electricity
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Refers to any electric cooperative, private corporation, government owned utility or existing local govermental unit which had an exclusive franchise to operate a distribution system
Distribution Utility
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Refers to the law mandating the restructuring of the electric power sector and the privatization of the National Power Corporation (NPC)
Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 or Republic Act No. 9136
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Refers to a facility for the production of electricity and or thermal energy such as, but not limited to, steam, hot or cold water.
Generation Facility
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Is produced through natural recharge where the water is replenished by rainfall and the heat is continuously produced inside the earth.
Geothermal energy
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Refers to machines or other equipment that coneverts grothermal energy into useful power.
Geothermal Energy Systems
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Refers to mineral resources, classified as renewable energy resource, in the form of all products of geothermal processes, embracing indigenous steam, hot water, and hot brines
Geothermal Resources
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Refers to the mechanism to empower end users to choose renewable energy in meeting their energy requirements
Green Energy Option
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Refers to the amount due the National Government and local government units from the exploitation, development and utilization of naturall occurring renewable energy resources such as geothermal, wind, solar, ocean nd hydro excluding biomass
Government Share
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Refers to any power or energy generation facility which makes use of two or more types of technologies utilizing both conventional and or renewable fuel sourcea, such as, but not limited to integrated solar/wind systems, biomass/fossil fuel systems.
Hybrid Systems
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Refers to water based energy systems whuch produce electricity by utilizing the kinetic energy of falling or running water to trun a turbine generator
Hydroelectric Power Systems or Hydropower Systems
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Refers to the construction and installation of a hydroelectric power generating plant and its ausiliary facilities, such as diversion structure, headrace, penstock, substation, transmission and machine shop among others.
Hydroelectric Power Development or Hydropower Development
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Refers to water resources fpund technically feasible for development of hydropower projects which include rivers, lakes, waterfalls, irrigation canals, springs, ponds and other water bodies.
Hydroelectric Power Resources or Hydropower Resources
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Refers to the amount due the local government units from thr exploitation development and utilizayion of naturally occurring renewable energy resources
Locl government share
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Refers to the provision of basic electricity service in unviable areas with the aim of bringing the operations in these areas to viability levels.
Missionary Electrification
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Refers to the amount due to the national government from. The exploitation, development and utilization of naturally occurring renewable energh resources
National government share
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A decree instituting a labor code thereby revising and consolidating labor and social laws to afford protection to labor, promote employment and human resources development and insure industrial peace based on social justice
Labor Code of the Philippines
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Means any person or association engaged in the requitmentand placement of workers, locally or overseas, without charging, directly or indirectly, any fee from the workers or employers.
Private recruitment entity
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means a document issued by the Department of Labor authorizing a person or entity to
operate a private employment agency.
License
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means any member of the labor force, whether employed or unemployed.
"Worker"
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means any person or entity engaged in recruitment and
placement of workers for a fee which is charged, directly or indirectly, from the workers or
employers or both.
"Private fee-charging employment agency"
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means a document issued by the Department of Labor authorizing a person or
association to engage in recruitment and placement activities as a private recruitment entity.
"Authority"
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shall have the power to impose and collect fees based on rates recommended
by the Bureau of Employment Services. Such fees shall be deposited in the National Treasury as a
special account of the General Fund, for the promotion of the objectives of the Bureau of
Employment Services, subject to the provisions of Section 40 of Presidential Decree No. 1177.
The Minister of Labor
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shall have the original and exclusive jurisdiction over all
matters or cases involving employer-employee relations including money claims, arising out of or
by virtue of any law or contracts involving Filipino workers for overseas employment except
seamen: Provided, That the Bureau of Employment Services may, in the case of the National
Capital Region, exercise such power, whenever the Minister of Labor deems it appropriate. The
decisions of the regional offices of the Bureau of Employment Services, if so authorized by the
Minister of Labor as provided in this Article, shall be appealable to the National Labor Relations
Commission upon the same grounds provided in Article 223 hereof. The decisions of the National
Labor Relations Commission shall be final and inappealable. (Superseded by Exec. Order 797,
May 1, 1982).
The regional offices of the Ministry of Labor
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shall have the power and authority:
a. To organize and establish new employment offices in addition to the existing employment offices
under the Department of Labor as the need arises;
b. To organize and establish a nationwide job clearance and information system to inform applicants
registering with a particular employment office of job opportunities in other parts of the country as
well as job opportunities abroad;
c. To develop and organize a program that will facilitate occupational, industrial and geographical
mobility of labor and provide assistance in the relocation of workers from one area to another; and
d. To require any person, establishment, organization or institution to submit such employment
information as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor.
The Secretary of Labor
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Any employee may be retired upon reaching the retirement age established in the
collective bargaining agreement or other applicable employment contract.
Retirement
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means the amount equivalent to one hundred fifteen percent of the sum
of the average monthly salary credit multiplied by the replacement ratio, and one and a half
percent of the average monthly salary credit for each credited year of service in excess of ten
years: Provided, That the monthly income benefit shall in no case be less than two hundred fifty
pesos.
"Monthly income benefit"`
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For a member covered prior to January, 1975, nineteen hundred
seventy-five minus the calendar year of coverage, plus the number of calendar years in which six
or more contributions have been paid from January, 1975 up to the calendar year containing the
semester prior to the contingency. For a member covered on or after January, 1975, the number of
calendar years in which six or more contributions have been paid from the year of coverage up to
the calendar year containing the semester prior to the contingency.
"Credited years of service"
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The sum of twenty percent and the quotient obtained by dividing three
hundred by the sum of three hundred forty and the average monthly salary credit.
"Replacement ratio"
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means a period of two consecutive quarters ending in the quarter of death, permanent
disability, injury or sickness.
"Semester"
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means a period of three (3) consecutive months ending on the last days of March, June,
September and December.
"Quarter"
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in the case of the SSS means the result obtained by dividing the sum of
the six (6) highest monthly salary credits in the twelve-month period immediately preceding the
semester of sickness or injury by one hundred eighty (180), except where the month of injury falls
within twelve (12) calendar months from the first month of coverage, in which case it is the result
obtained by dividing the sum of all monthly salary credits by thirty (30) times the number of
calendar months of coverage in the period.
In the case of the GSIS, the average daily salary credit shall be the actual daily salary or wage, or
the monthly salary or wage divided by the actual number of working days of the month of
contingency.
"Average daily salary credit"
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in the case of the SSS means the result obtained by dividing the
sum of the monthly salary credits in the sixty-month period immediately following the semester of
death or permanent disability by sixty (60), except where the month of death or permanent
disability falls within eighteen (18) calendar months from the month of coverage, in which case, it is
the result obtained by dividing the sum of all monthly salary credits paid prior to the month of
contingency by the total number of calendar months of coverage in the same period.
"Average monthly salary credit"
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means the wage or salary base for contributions as provided in Republic Act
Numbered Eleven hundred sixty-one, as amended, or the wages or salary.
"Monthly salary credit"
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insofar as they refer to the computation of benefits defined in Republic Act No.
1161, as amended, for SSS and Presidential Decree No. 1146, as amended, for GSIS,
respectively, except that part in excess of Three Thousand Pesos.
"Wages" or "Salary"
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means any doctor of medicine duly licensed to practice in the Philippines, an active
member in good standing of the Philippine Medical Association and accredited by the Commission.
"Physician"
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means any medical facility, government or private, authorized by law, an active member in
good standing of the Philippine Hospital Association and accredited by the Commission.
"Hospital"
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means all payments made under this Title for income benefits and medical or
related benefits.
"Compensation"
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means all payments made under this Title to the providers of medical care,
rehabilitation services and hospital care.
"Income benefit"
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means all payments made under this Title to the providers of medical care,
rehabilitation services and hospital care.
"Medical benefit"
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means loss or impairment of a physical or mental function resulting from injury or
sickness.
"Disability"
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means any illness definitely accepted as an occupational disease listed by the
Commission, or any illness caused by employment subject to proof that the risk of contracting the
same is increased by working conditions. For this purpose, the Commission is empowered to
determine and approve occupational diseases and work-related illnesses that may be considered
compensable based on peculiar hazards of employment.
"Sickness"
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means any harmful change in the human organism from any accident arising out of and in
the course of the employment.
"Injury"
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means the dependent spouse until he/she remarries and dependent children, who
are the primary beneficiaries. In their absence, the dependent parents and subject to the
restrictions imposed on dependent children, the illegitimate children and legitimate descendants,
who are the secondary beneficiaries: Provided, That the dependent acknowledged natural child
shall be considered as a primary beneficiary when there are no other dependent children who are
qualified and eligible for monthly income benefit.
"Beneficiaries"
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means the legitimate, legitimated or legally adopted or acknowledged natural child who
is unmarried, not gainfully employed, and not over twenty-one (21) years of age or over twenty-one
(21) years of age provided he is incapacitated and incapable of self-support due to a physical or
mental defect which is congenital or acquired during minority; the legitimate spouse living with the
employee and the parents of said employee wholly dependent upon him for regular support.
"Dependent"
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means any person compulsorily covered by the GSIS under Commonwealth Act
Numbered One hundred eighty-six, as amended, including the members of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines, and any person employed as casual, emergency, temporary, substitute or
contractual, or any person compulsorily covered by the SSS under Republic Act Numbered Eleven
hundred sixty-one, as amended.
"Employee"
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means any person, natural or juridical, employing the services of the employee.
"Employer"
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means the Labor Code of the Philippines instituted under Presidential Decree Numbered four
hundred forty-two, as amended.
Code
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means the Employees’ Compensation Commission created under this Title.
"Commission"
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means the Social Security System created under Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred
sixty-one, as amended.
"SSS"
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means the Government Service Insurance System created under Commonwealth Act
Numbered One hundred eighty-six, as amended.
"GSIS"
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shall be solely responsible for the administration and
enforcement of occupational safety and health laws, regulations and standards in all
establishments and workplaces wherever they may be located; however, chartered cities may be
allowed to conduct industrial safety inspections of establishments within their respective
jurisdictions where they have adequate facilities and competent personnel for the purpose as
determined by the Department of Labor and Employment and subject to national standards
established by the latter.
The Department of Labor and Employment
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may, through appropriate regulations, collect reasonable
fees for the inspection of steam boilers, pressure vessels and pipings and electrical installations,
the test and approval for safe use of materials, equipment and other safety devices and the
approval of plans for such materials, equipment and devices.
The Secretary of Labor and Employment
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“identified and qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries, shall have usufructuary rights over the
awarded land as soon as the DAR takes possession of such land, and such right shall not be diminished even pending
the awarding of the emancipation patent or the certificate of land ownership award”.
CARPER Law
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“AN ACT PRESCRIBING URGENT RELATED MEASURES TO
MODERNIZE THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES
SECTORS OF THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENHANCE
THEIR PROFITABILITY, AND PREPARE SAID SECTORS
FOR THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION THROUGH
AN ADEQUATE, FOCUSED AND RATIONAL DELIVERY
OF NECESSARY SUPPORT SERVICES, APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
“THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION ACT OF 1997”
| /REPUBLIC ACT 8435:
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The State shall protect small farmers and fisherfolk from
unfair competition such as monopolistic and oligopolistic practices by promoting a policy
environment that provides them priority access to credit and strengthened cooperative-based
marketing system.
Protection from Unfair Competition –
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The State shall promote people empowerment by enabling all citizens
through direct participation or through their duly elected, chosen or designated representatives
the opportunity to participate in policy formulation and decision-making by establishing the
appropriate mechanisms and by giving them access to information
People Empowerment
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The State shall promote development that is compatible with the
preservation of the ecosystem in areas where agriculture and fisheries activities are carried out.
The State should exert care and judicious use of the country’s natural resources in order to attain
long-term sustainability;
Sustainable Development
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The State shall enhance the competitiveness of the agriculture and
fisheries sectors in both domestic and foreign markets;
Global Competitiveness
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The State shall adopt a rational approach in the allocation of public
investments in agriculture and fisheries in order to assure efficiency and effectiveness in the use
of scarce resources and thus obtain optimal returns on its investments;
Rational Use of Resources
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The State shall assure the availability, adequacy, accessibility and affordability
of food supplies to all at all times;
Food Security
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The State shall ensure that the poorer sectors of society
have equitable access to resources, income opportunities, basic and support services and
infrastructure especially in areas where productivity is low as a means of improving their
quality of life compared with other sectors of society;
Poverty Alleviation and Social Equity
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is a barangay at the minimum or a cluster of contiguous barangays
where there is a critical mass of farmers or farm workers and which features the main thrust of
agrarian development: land tenure improvement and effective delivery of support services.
“Agrarian Reform Community”
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is the sector engaged in the cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing
of fruit trees, raising of livestock, poultry, or fish, including the harvesting and marketing of such
farm products, and other farm activities and practices.
“Agricultural Sector”
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is the process of transforming the agriculture and
fisheries sectors into one that is dynamic, technologically advanced and competitive yet centered on
human development, guided by the sound practices of sustainability and the principles of social
justice.
“Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization”
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refers to the process of changing the use of agricultural land
to non-agricultural uses.
“Agricultural Land Use Conversion”
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refers to lands devoted to or suitable for the cultivation of the soil, planting of
crops, growing of trees, raising of livestock, poultry, fish or aquaculture production, including the
harvesting of such farm products, and other farm activities and practices performed in conjunction
with such farming operations by persons whether natural or juridical and not classified by law as
mineral land, forest land, residential land, commercial land, or industrial land.
“Agricultural Lands”
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is the development, adoption, manufacture and application of
appropriate location-specific, and cost-effective agricultural technology using human, animal,
mechanical, electrical and other non-conventional sources of energy for agricultural production
and post-harvest operations consistent with agronomic conditions and for efficient and economic
farm management.
“Agricultural Mechanization”
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refers to the processing of raw agricultural and fishery products into
semi-processed or finished products which include materials for the manufacture of food and/or
non-food products, pharmaceuticals and other industrial products.
“Agro-Processing Activities”
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collectively used, means government banks and private banks, rural banks and
cooperative banks.
“Banks”
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involves the identification, production and marketing of
| wage goods and services for consumption of rural communities.
“Basic Needs Approach to Development”
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is an irrigation system that is managed by a bona fide
| Irrigators Association.
“Communal Irrigation System (CIS)”
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refers to competitive edge in terms of product quality and/or price. It
likewise refers to the ability to produce a product with the greatest relative efficiency in the use of
resources.
“Competitive Advantage”
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refers to duly registered associations of persons with a common bond of interest
who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social and economic end, making
equitable contributions to the capital required and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of
the undertaking in accordance with universally accepted cooperative principles.
“Cooperatives”
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refers to the Department of Agriculture.
“Department”
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refers to the minimum quantity or volume of goods required to be efficient.
“Economic Scale”
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refers to the decrease in unit cost as more units are produced due to the
spreading out of fixed costs over a greater number of units produced.
“Economies of Scale”
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involves providing authority, responsibility and information to people directly
engaged in agriculture and fishery production, primarily at the level of the farmers, fisherfolk and
those engaged in food and non-food production and processing, in order to give them wider choices
and enable them to take advantage of the benefits of the agriculture and fishery industries.
“Empowerment”
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refers to the provision of training, information, and support services by the
government and non-government organizations to the agriculture and fisheries sectors to improve
the technical, business and social capabilities of farmers and fisherfolk.
“Extension Services”
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refers to farmers and fisherfolk’s
cooperatives, associations, or corporations duly registered with appropriate government agencies
and which are composed primarily of small agricultural producers, farmers, farm workers,
agrarian reform beneficiaries, fisherfolk who voluntarily join together to form business enterprises
or non-business organizations which they themselves own, control and patronize.
“Farmer’s and Fisherfolk’s Organizations or Associations”
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refers to roads linking the agriculture and fisheries production sites,
coastal landing points and post-harvest facilities to the market and arterial roads and highways.
“Farm-to-Market Roads”
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is the sector engaged in the production, growing, harvesting, processing,
marketing, developing, conserving, and managing of aquatic resources and fisheries areas.
“Fisheries Sector”
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refers to all systems or networks of interrelated activities which include the production,
growing, harvesting, processing, marketing, developing, conserving, and managing of all aquatic
resources and fisheries areas.
“Fisheries”
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refers to areas in any body of water where fish and other aquatic resources
congregate and become target of capture.
“Fishing Grounds”
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refers to the application of techniques using various gear in catching fish and other
fisheries products.
“Fishing”
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refers to the policy objectives, plan and strategy of meeting the food requirements
of the present and future generations of Filipinos in substantial quantity, ensuring the availability
and affordability of food to all, either through local production or importation, or both, based on
the country’s existing and potential resource endowment and related production advantages, and
consistent with the overall national development objectives and policies. However, sufficiency in
rice and white corn should be pursued.
“Food Security”
114
refers to agricultural and fisheries products newly
taken or captured directly from its natural state or habitat, or those newly harvested or gathered
from agricultural areas or bodies of water used for aquaculture.
“Fresh Agricultural and Fishery Products”
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refers to the ability to compete in terms of price, quality and volume of
agriculture and fishery products relative to those of other countries.
“Global Competitiveness”
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refers to the total value, excluding the value of non-agricultural or fishery
intermediate inputs, of goods and services contributed by the agricultural and fisheries sectors.
“Gross Value-Added”
117
refers to the composite parts of the irrigation system that divert water from natural
bodies of water such as rivers, streams, and lakes.
“Headworks”
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efers to the encouragement given to manufacturing enterprises to establish
their plants in rural areas. Such firms normally use agricultural raw materials either in their
primary or intermediate state.
“Industrial Dispersal” r
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refers to lands which display marked characteristics justifying the operation of
an irrigation system.
“Irrigable Lands”
120
refers to lands serviced by natural irrigation or irrigation facilities. These
include lands where water is not readily available as existing irrigation facilities need rehabilitation
or upgrading or where irrigation water is not available year-round.
“Irrigated Lands”
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refers to a system of irrigation facilities covering contiguous areas.
“Irrigation System”
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refers to an association of farmers within a contiguous area served
by a National Irrigation System or Communal Irrigation System.
“Irrigators’ Association (IA)”
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refers to a document embodying a set of policies accompanied by maps and
similar illustrations which represent the community-desired pattern of population distribution and a
proposal for the future allocation of land to the various land-using activities, in accordance with the
social and economic objectives of the people. It identifies the location, character and extent of the
area’s land resources to be used for different purposes and includes the process and the criteria
employed in the determination of the land use.
“Land Use Plan”
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refers to the act of defining the allocation, utilization, development and
management of all lands within a given territory or jurisdiction according to the inherent qualities
of the land itself and supportive of sustainable, economic, demographic, socio-cultural and
environmental objectives as an aid to decision-making and legislation.
“Land Use Planning”
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refers to the manner of utilizing the land, including its allocation, development and
management.
“Land Use”
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refers to the channel where diverted water from a source flows to the intended area
to be irrigated.
“Main Canal”
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refers to facilities including, but not limited to market buildings,
slaughterhouses, holding pens, warehouses, market information centers, connecting roads,
transport and communication and cold storage used by the farmers and fisherfolk in marketing their
produce.
“Market Infrastructure”
128
refers to an information network which links all offices and
levels of the Department with various research institutions and local end-users, providing easy
access to information and marketing services related to agriculture and fisheries.
“National Information Network (NIN)”
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refers to a major irrigation system managed by the National
| Irrigation Administration.
“National Irrigation System (NIS)”
130
refers
to agricultural areas identified by the Department through the Bureau of Soils and Water
Management in coordination with the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority in
order to ensure the efficient utilization of land for agriculture and agro-industrial development and
promote sustainable growth. The NPAAAD covers all irrigated areas, all irrigable lands already
covered by irrigation projects with firm funding commitments; all alluvial plain land highly suitable
for agriculture whether irrigated or not; agro-industrial croplands or lands presently planted to
industrial crops that support the viability of existing agricultural infrastructure and agro-based
enterprises, highlands, or areas located at an elevation of five hundred (500) meters or above and
have the potential for growing semi-temperate and high-value crops; all agricultural lands that are
ecologically fragile, the conversion of which result in serious environmental degradation, and
mangrove areas and fish sanctuaries.
“Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Development (NPAAAD)”
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refers to composite facilities that permit entry of water to paddy
areas and consist of farm ditches and turnouts.
“On-Farm Irrigation Facilities”
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includes, but is not limited to, threshing, drying, milling, grading, storing,
and handling of produce and such other activities as stripping, winnowing, chipping and washing.
“Post-Harvest Activities”
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includes, but is not limited to, threshers, moisture meters, dryers,
weighing scales, milling equipment, fish ports, fish landings, ice plants and cold storage facilities,
processing plants, warehouses, buying stations, market infrastructure and transportation facilities.
“Post-Harvest Facilities”
134
refers to the undertaking of any development
activity, the results of which modify or alter the physical characteristics of the agricultural lands to
render them suitable for non-agricultural purposes, without an approved order of conversion from
the DAR.
“Premature Conversion of Agricultural Land”
135
refers to the physical alteration of raw agricultural or fishery products with
or without the use of mechanical facilities.
“Primary Processing”
136
refers to the process of tracking changes in the environment and natural
resources biophysically and economically (in monetary terms).
“Resource Accounting”
137
refers to the utilization of natural resources.
“Resource-based”
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refers to the process by which the economy is transformed from one that
is predominantly agricultural to one that is dominantly industrial and service-oriented. Agriculture
provides the impetus and push for industry and services through the market that it creates, the labor
that it absorbs, and the income that it generates which is channeled to industry and services. As
development continues, with agriculture still an important sector, industry and services begin to
generate income and markets and concomitantly increase their share of total income.
“Rural Industrialization”
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refers to the channel connected to the main canal which distributes irrigation
to specific areas.
“Secondary Canal”
140
refers to the physical transformation of semi-processed agricultural or
fishery products.
“Secondary Processing”
141
refers to a tube or shaft vertically set into the ground for the purpose
of bringing ground water to the soil surface from a depth of less than 20 meters by suction lifting.
“Shallow Tube Well (STW)”
142
refers to any business activity or enterprise engaged in
industry, agribusiness and/or services, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or
corporation whose total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on
which the particular business entity’s office, plant and equipment are situated, must have value
falling under the following categories:
Micro : not more than P1,500,000
Small : P1,500,001 to P15,000,000
Medium : P15,000,001 to P60,000,000
The Department, in consultation with the Congressional Oversight Committee on Agricultural and
Fisheries Modernization (COCAFM), may adjust the above values as deemed necessary.
“Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)”
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refers to natural persons dependent on small-scale subsistence
farming and fishing activities as their primary source of income.
“Small Farmers and Fisherfolk”
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means the consideration of the social structure of the community such as
leadership pattern, distribution of roles across gender and age groups, the diversity of religion and
other spiritual beliefs, ethnicity and cultural diversity of the population.
“Socio-Culturally Sound”
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refers to the areas within the
NPAAAD identified for production, agro-processing and marketing activities to help develop and
modernize, with the support of government, the agriculture and fisheries sectors in an
environmentally and socio-culturally sound manner.
“Strategic Agriculture and Fisheries Development Zones (SAFDZ)”
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refers to utilization of technology.
“Technology-based”
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refers to a local legislation approving the development/land use plan and
providing for the regulations and other conditions on the uses of land including the limitation on the
infrastructure that may be placed within the territorial jurisdiction of a city or municipality.
“Zoning Ordinance”
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including non-formal education,
refers to organized and institutionalized learning relating to basic
education, technical, vocational, occupational and professional
development, providing the basis for research and practice for technology
development and extension in the various fields of agriculture and
fisheries.
“Agricultural and Fisheries Education”
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of a given area means the total production
that can be derived therefrom, arising from: (i) new areas for
development, (ii) increased productivity from existing areas, (iii)
conversion of use of existing crop land to alternative, higher-value uses,
(iv) reduction of post-harvest losses, and (v) value adding activities such
as food and agro-processing.
“Agro-industrial potential”
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refers to research aimed at gaining knowledge to
meet a specific, recognized need. Applied research is generally divided
into pre-technology sciences and technology invention. Pre-technology
sciences include soil physics and chemistry, plant and animal genetics,
plant and animal pathology, plant and animal physiology, nutrition,
engineering, climatology, computer science, and economics. Technology
invention includes agricultural chemistry, plant and animal breeding,
horticulture, agronomy, veterinary medicine, mechanics, irrigation
methods, anthropology, sociology, communications research, extension
research, computer software development and farm management.
“Applied research”
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research conducted to gain more complete
understanding of the subject under study, without any specific
applications in mind. This can include experimental or theoretical work
undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying
foundation or phenomena and observable facts, without any particular or
specific application in view.
“Basic research”
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refers to the recurring cost of
operating a research and extension center or institute, which includes
personnel services of core staff and maintenance and operating expenses.
Core funds include maintenance cost of permanent projects such as
germplasm collections and seed storage.
“Core funds for research and extension”
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refers to credit projects, activities and
programs targeted at a specific sector or sectors of the population,
implemented by a government or quasi-government non-financial agency
directly or indirectly through an executing agency, fund manager,
administrator or conduit, and whose funding comes at least partly from
government or public resources, appropriations, local or foreign grants to
government loan proceeds from any source, or which involve
government guarantee.
“Directed Credit Program”
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refers to the cost of undertaking a specific research
project or program. This includes the salaries and maintenance and other
operating costs directly related to the implementation of the project.
“Direct research cost”
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refers to the legal process leading to the reversion of land to
the State.
“Escheat”
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refers to an area of academic interest or specialization in
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“Field”
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refers to the unit upgraded from that
formerly known as the Field Operations Group (FOG) or Regional
Operations Group (ROG).
“Field Operations Service (FOS)”
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refers to the policy objective, plan and strategy of
meeting the food requirements of the present and future generations of
Filipinos in substantial quantity, safety and nutritional quality that meets
desirable dietary requirements, ensuring the availability and
affordability of food to all, either through local production or
importation, or both, based on the country’s existing and potential
resource endowment and related production advantages, and consistent
with the overall national development objectives and policies. However,
sufficiency in rice and white corn should be pursued.
“Food Security”
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refers to programs and activities that aim to
increase, enhance, or develop human resources and related physical
infrastructure.
“Institutional Development”
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refer to efficiently-managed, contiguous area of
agricultural land or fisheries characterized by a diversified cropping and
integrated farming or fishery system which shall serve as a demonstration
center for agricultural or fishery technologies.
“Model Farms”
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is where all of the various sectors
concerned with an issue, decision, project or program are adequately
represented.
“Multi-sectoral participation”
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refers to the nationally-federated farmers’
and fisherfolk’s organizations, cooperatives, associations and other agribased
service organizations networked to engage in the procurement,
processing, storage and marketing of agri-based raw materials, semiprocessed
and finished products for domestic and foreign markets.
“National Marketing Umbrella”
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are modes of action where decisions and
actions are subjected to open discussion, public hearings or consultations
involving stakeholders prior to finalization and implementation.
“Participatory processes”
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or PS refers to the office of the Department of
Agriculture that prior to the issuance of these IRR was referred to as the
Planning and Monitoring Service (PMS).
“Planning Service”
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or PD refers to the office of the Regional Field Unit
of the Department of Agriculture that prior to the issuance of these IRR
was referred to as the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit
(PMEU).
“Planning Division”
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refer to professionals and individuals
working for the development of the agriculture and fishery sector such as
scientists, researchers, technical personnel, research managers and
coordinators, extension officers and workers.
“Scientific and technical personnel”
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refers to assets including but not limited to land,
buildings, machinery, equipment, raw materials, and cash utilized for the
viable business operation of the farmers and fisherfolk and their
organizations, cooperatives, and federations.
“Working capital”
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The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (1991)
RA 6657
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The Local Government Code of 1991
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RA 7160
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Higher Education Act of 1994
RA 7722
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shall oversee and monitor the implementation of the Congressional Commission on
Agriculture Modernization (AGRICOM) recommendations as well as all programs, projects and
activities related to agriculture and fisheries, and its allied concerns in both public and private
sectors, with a view to providing all legislative support and assistance within the powers of
Congress to ensure their inclusion, wherever feasible, in the national, regional, provincial,
municipal, and sectoral development plans, to recommend the disposal of assets no longer needed
by the Department to fund the modernization program, and to see them through their successful
implementation.
The Committee
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shall be,
respectively, the Chair and Co-Chair of the Oversight Committee. The other members shall receive
no compensation; however, traveling and other necessary expenses shall be allowed.
The chairs of the Committees on Agriculture in the Senate and House of Representatives,
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shall undertake field
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TLRC
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shall be responsible for the organization of training in coastal resources
management and sustainable fishing for the BNP areas and SAFDZs. The design and
implementation of the training shall provide optimum opportunities for the
participation of NGOs, the SUCs and LGUs. These training programs shall be
operational on or before March 30, 1999.
The DENR and the BFAR, in coordination with the CHED, TESDA, DECS, ATI and
PFDA
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shall organize the training of workers in
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The Department and the DENR
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shall organize local committees that will advise on the scope, nature and
duration of training for the above-mentioned programs.
,authorized to request the additional budgetary resources for these programs. Provided
that, after a reasonable period, the task of coordinating the training is transferred to the LGUs
concerned.
TESDA
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are authorized to undertake investment and marketing missions provided
that the costs of such missions are borne by the LGUs concerned. In making their land use plans,
the LGUs, in consultation with the appropriate government agencies concerned, shall identify areas
for industrial parks.
Local government units
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shall design and implement the Post-secondary Education Program for
Agriculture and Fisheries under the NAFES. The TESDA shall submit the design for
the approval of the NAFES Committee before September 30, 1998, for implementation
in or before SY 1999-2000. Provided, that the design and implementation of the Postsecondary
Education Program for Agriculture and Fisheries shall be integrated into the
accreditation, evaluation and rationalization system developed for the NAFES in or
before the SY 2000-2001.
TESDA
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shall continue to
plan, design, develop, rehabilitate and improve the NISs. It shall continue to maintain and operate
the major irrigation structures including the headworks and main canals.
National Irrigation Administration (NIA)
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shall coordinate with the PAGASA, the National Disaster Coordinating
Committee (NDCC), Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Philippine
Institute of Volcanology and other agencies to devise a method of regularly
monitoring, forecasting and considering the effect of global climate changes, weather
disturbances, and annual productivity cycles. Such methods will be for the purpose of
forecasting the status and impact of agriculture and fisheries production programs.
BSWM
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Any person who violates any provisions of RA No. 8559, on conviction, shall, in addition to administrative sanction, be penalized by
fine less than Fifty Thousand (P 50,000) pesos nor more than two hundred (P200,000) pesos, or imprisonment of not less than six (6) months nor more than three years, or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the of the court.
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shall affix his name, affix his seal or use any other method of signature of plans, specifications or other documents made by or under another Agricultural Engineers supervision unless the same is made in such manner as to clearly indicate the fact of such work actually performed by him.
No Agricultural Engineer
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shall sign for any branch of the work or any function of Agricultural Engineering practice not actually performed by him.
No person, except the Agricultural Engineer in-charge
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after due notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the license of an agricultural engineer , or cancel temporary/special permit issued to foreign agricultural engineers allowed to practice agricultural engineering in the Philippines if he is found to have committed any of the following:
a. Use or perpetuation of any fraud or deceit in obtaining a certificate of registration;
b. Incompetence
c. Negligence
d. Abetting the illegal practice of agricultural engineering and
e. Violation of any provisions of RA 8559, its implementing Rules and Regulations, Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for Agricultural Engineers and the policies adopted by the Board.
The Board
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issued to an agricultural-engineer shall be valid for three(3) years and unless holder thereof exempt from CPE requirement, shall be renewed every after three(3) years on the birth month of the agricultural engineer upon presentation
CPE) credit units earned and payment of the fees for the period under license.
professional license
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shall be composed of a Chairman and two(2) members who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines from a list of three(3) recommendees for each position chosen by the Commission from the list of nominees selected and submitted by the integrated and accredited association of agricultural engineers.
Board of Agricultural Engineering
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a member shall be appointed and hold office for three (3) years (RA 8559)
Chairman
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shall involve the design, construction, installation, operation, maintenance of systems and facilities, machinery and equipment for forest product and by-products processing, transporting marketing.
Forest Product Resource Engineering
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shall involve the design, construction, installation, operation, maintenance and management of machinery, equipment and facilities for fishery and aquaculture production, processing, transporting and marketing such as fish ponds, fish pens/cages, aerators, fish handling equipment and machinery and fish cold storage.
Fishery and Aquaculture Resource Engineering
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shall include measuring instruments and control system for agricultural applications such as moisture meter, weighing scale, other meteorology equipment and the like
Agricultural Instrumentation and Control
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Agricultural Information Resources and Technologies- shall include utilization of agricultural information systems, database and other information management tools for agricultural use, and the application of computers to agriculture.
Agricultural Information Resources and Technologies
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shall consist of the development of systems, processes and equipment for agricultural waste disposal and utilization a environmental-friendly technologies such as compost plant, biogas plant, biomass utilization technologies, systems and processes.
Agricultural Waste Disposal Utilization and Environmental Management
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shall include the design construction, installation, operation and maintenance of irrigation and agricultural drainage systems, drip, sprinkler and other pressurized irrigation system; hydro-meteorology; surface and ground water resource management, irrigation structures and facilities such as dams, weirs, pump systems, conveyance, canals and flumes
Irrigation and Drainage and Water Resources Management
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shall consist of management practices for small farm reservoir, farm ponds, small water impoundments to include contour farming; terracing use of erosion control structures; land conditioning, mulching flood control, agricultural planning and surveying and agricultural meteorology.
Soil and Water Conservation
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shall include local activity or series of activities to maintain or raise the quality or change the form or characteristics of agricultural, fishery and forestry products. It also includes cleaning, sorting, grading, treating, drying, dehydrating, grinding, mixing, milling, canning, dressing, slaughtering, freezing, pasteurizing, conditioning packaging, re-packing, transporting, etc. of agricultural, fishery and foresty products.
Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering
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shall embrace the design and installation of electric system for agriculture, conservation equipment, micro-hydro-electric generators and motors for power on the farm, village level power plant including the development and operation of conventional and non-conventional energy equipment and facilities for agricultural purposes
Agricultural Electrification and Energy
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shall include silos and its components, agricultural machinery and equipment sheds, farm houses, green/screen houses, poultry houses, piggery, livestock and fishery production and processing, agricultural processing, kiln drying and lumber treatment structure, farm equipment , farm supplies and other structures such as self feeders, and soil and water conservation structures.
Agricultural Buildings and structures
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shall consists of all farm power and equipment for the production, processing, storage, manufacturing, preserving, transporting and distribution of agricultural, fishery, aquaculture and forestry products. It includes tractor and their slaughtering equipment, meat processing equipment, fishery and aquaculture and forest processing equipment, post harvest machines such as milling machine, dryer, thresher, etc., and agricultural transport machinery.
Agricultural Machinery Equipment and Power Units
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shall refer to: (1) agricultural machinery, equipment and power units (2) agricultural buildings and structures; (3) agricultural electrification energy; water conservation (4) agricultural processing and food engineering; (5) soil and water /conservation (6) irrigation and drainage and water resources management (7) agricultural waste disposal and utilization and environmental management; (8) agricultural information resources and technology (9) agricultural instrumentation and control (10) fishery and aquacultural resources engineering and (11) forest product resource engineering
Agricultural Engineering Facilities , Services, System and Technologies
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shall refer to a natural person who has been issued a certificate of registration by the Board of Agricultural Engineering and has taken the oath of profession of Agricultural Engineers
Agricultural Engineer
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shall refer to the professional license issued by the Commission
Agricultural Engineering License
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shall refer to the certificate issued by the Board after passing the required examination and upon completion of all requirements prescribed by the said Board
Certificate of Registration
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shall refer to a table of specification containing the contents, systematically arranged by topics and subtopics, of the subjects in the curriculum of the course to be covered in the Licensure Examination for Agricultural Engineers
Syllabus
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shall refer to the examination required to be taken and passed for registration as Agricultural Engineer.
Licensure Examination for Agricultural Engineers
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shall mean the unification or consolidation of existing organizations of Agricultural Engineers into one national organization which shall be recognized by the Board and the Commission as the only integrated and accredited association of Agricultural Engineers
Integration
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shall mean the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) under PD No. 223, as amended
Commission
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shall mean the Chairman of the Professional Regulation Commission
Commissioner
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shall mean the Board of Agricultural Engineers
Board-
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shall refer to the application of the fundamental and known principles of engineering to the peculiar condition and requirements of agriculture as an industry and as a field of science and shall include, but limited to the following:
1. Consultation, validation, investigation and management services on agricultural engineering
2. Preparation of engineering designs, plans, specifications, project studies and estimates, and the supervision and other management services on the construction , installation, operation and maintenance of agricultural, aquaculture and fishery , and forest product machinery , agricultural buildings and structures, farm electrification and energy systems, agricultural processing equipment, irrigation and soil conservation systems and facilities, agricultural waste utilization systems and facilities and other agricultural engineering facilities/services, systems and technologies;
3. Conducting research and development training and extension work, consultancy services on agricultural engineering facilities/services, system and technologies;
4. Testing, evaluation and inspection of agricultural, fishery and forest product machinery and other related agricultural engineering facilities and equipment;
5. Management, manufacturing and/or marketing of agricultural machinery and other related agricultural engineering facilities, equipment, services, systems and technologies.
6. Teaching agricultural engineering subjects in institutions of learning in the Philippines accredited by the Commission of Higher Education.
7. Employment with the government provided that such item or position requires the knowledge and expertise of an agricultural engineer. Such item or position may include but not limited to Science Research Specialist, Planning Officer, Project Development Officer, Manager and Director in accordance with the prescribed qualification standards.
Practice of Agricultural Engineering -
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the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998,
RA 8559
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No foreign agricultural engineer shall be issued a temporary license to practice the agricultural engineering profession or consultancy thereof or be entitled to any of the rights and privileges under this Act unless the country of which he is a subject or citizen specifically permits Filipino agricultural engineers to practice within its territorial limits on the same basis as the subjects or citizens of such foreign state or country.
Foreign reciprocity.
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The Board may suspend or revoke any certificate of registration obtained through misrepresentation made in the application for examination.
Fraudulent application.
