ISSUES, POLICIES, AND TRADE AGREEMENTS

Question 1

ANGAT LAHAT, PAGKAING SAPAT (ALPAS) LABAN SA COVID 19

Answer 1

ensure sustained food production and availability

Question 2

COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM (CARP) OF 1988 (RA 6657)

Answer 2

1) equitable distribution of land ownership (limit of 5 hectares per person)
2) ended on 1998

Question 3

RA 9700 (CARPer)

Answer 3

1) extended CARP until June 30, 2014
2) expanded beneficiaries to rural women
3) allowed lands to be used for public purposes

Question 4

MAGNA CARTA OF SMALL FARMERS (RA 7607)

Answer 4

provide ample opportunity to small farmers

Question 5

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MODERNIZATION ACT (RA 8435)

Answer 5

1) safety net for producers to cope with globalization (competing imports)
2) principles
=> poverty alleviation
=> social equity
=> food security
=> rational use of resources
=> global competitiveness

Question 6

EXECUTIVE ORDER 430 (1990)

Answer 6

creation of National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP)

Question 7

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) NO. 8 (2002)

Answer 7

importation and release into the environment of products of modern biotechnology

Question 8

JOINT DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR (2016)

Answer 8

1) products derived from modern biotechnology => research and development
=> handling and use
=> transboundary movement
=> release into environment
=> management

Question 9

HIGH VALUE CROPS COMMERCIALIZATION ACT

Answer 9

RA 7900

Question 10

HIGH VALUE CROPS

Answer 10

1) crops other than traditional crops (coffee, cacao)
2) fruit crops (citrus, cashew)
3) root crops (potato, ulbi)
4) vegetable crops (legumes, broccoli)
5) spices and condiments (black pepper, ginger)
6) cutflower and ornamental foliage (orchids, statice)

Question 11

DA PRIORITY CROPS

Answer 11

1) vegetables (lowland, upland, spices, indigenous)
2) major fruits (mango, banana, pineapple)
3) local/regional fruits (durian, pili, cashew)
4) plantation crops (coffee, cacao, rubber)
5) alternative staple food crops (banana-saba, root crops)

Question 12

ORGANIC AGRICULTURE ACT

Answer 12

RA 10068 (amended by RA 11511)

Question 13

RICE TARRIFICATION ACT

Answer 13

RA 11203

Question 14

PLANT QUARANTINE RULES AND REGULATIONS

Answer 14

PD 1433

Question 15

PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT

Answer 15

RA 9168

Question 16

CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Answer 16

1) RA 9147 (wild life act)
2) RA 8371 (indigenous people rights act)
3) RA 7611 (strategic environmental plan for palawan)

Question 17

INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (ITPGRFA)

Answer 17

1) major elements
=> conservation
=> sustainable use
=> multilateral system
=> farmer’s right