Lesson 1.1 Philippine Agriculture: History and Current Situation

Question 1

Domestication of plants and animals and the
development and dissemination of techniques for
raising crops and livestock productively

Answer 1

History of agriculture

Question 2

Agriculture
began independently in the different parts of the globe.

Answer 2

Through trading and domestication

Question 3

Three stages of Philippine agriculture

Answer 3

I. Pre-colonial Agriculture
II. Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial Times
(1565-1898)
III. Agriculture during the American Colonization
(1898-1946)

Question 4

In this stage Filipinos had a civilization of their own

Answer 4

Pre-colonial Agriculture

Question 5

True or false.

Is Pre-colonial Agriculture came from the Malay settlers and partly from
their response to the new environment?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Pre-colonial Agriculture main source of livelihood?

Answer 6

Agriculture

Question 7

Pre-colonial Agriculture type of land preparation?

Answer 7

-kaingin system
(slash and burn)
- Tillage

Question 8

It involves manipulation
of the soil with the use of bolo
or bare hands

Answer 8

Tillage

Question 9

Types of Crops cultivated in Pre-colonial Agriculture?

Answer 9

coconuts, sugarcane, cotton, hemp,
bananas, & many species of fruits and
vegetables

Question 10

Types of animal raised in Pre-colonial Agriculture?

Answer 10

chickens, pigs, goats, carabaos, &
small native ponies

Question 11

pre-colonial Visayan farmers neither knew
the plow nor the carabao before the
arrival of the Spaniards

Answer 11

William Henry Scott

Question 12

described the Mangyans of Mindoro as
sedentary agriculturists who farm without
the plow and the carabao

Answer 12

Robert B. Fox

Question 13

Type of land ownership in pre-colonial agriculture?

Answer 13

Public & Private

Question 14

Land Ownership where there is less arable land that could be
tilled freely by anyone

Answer 14

public

Question 15

Land Ownership where rich and cultivated lands belongs to
nobles and datus - some rented land and paid in gold
or in kind

Answer 15

private

Question 16

Stage of Phil. Agriculture where New crops were introduced ?

Answer 16

Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)

Question 17

Reason why new crops are introduced during Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)

Answer 17

Spanish colonization
and trading

Question 18

Major Crops grown in Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)

Answer 18

1.Coconut (Cocos nucifera)
2. Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)
3. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
4. Abaca (Musa textilis Nee)
5. Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)

Question 19

Types of crops where in1642 Gov-Gen Salvador
Hurtado de Corcuera
decreed to plant.

Answer 19

Coconut

Question 20

Types of crops where the Philippines are the largest exporter in mid 1700.

Answer 20

Sugarcane

Question 21

started
during the reign of the 53rd Governor-
General Jose Basco y Vargas and the industry was abolished in 1880
but, tobacco farming was still
practiced (personal consumption)

Answer 21

tobacco monopoly in the Phil

Question 22

The Popularity of this crop
started in 1820 when an
American military man
brought abaca samples to US.

Answer 22

Abaca (Musa textilis Nee)

Question 23

oldest dyes in civilization & one of the
most natural dyes in the whole world

Answer 23

Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)

Question 24

part of the Galleon and Chinese trade
but the demand is lessen due
to synthetic dyes which cost cheaper

Answer 24

Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)

Question 25

Economic programs which
are mainly about land ownership and taxes.

Answer 25

encomienda, hacienda, and imposition of
different kinds of taxes

Question 26

Type of program during the Spanish Colonial Period where a land ownership system with the use of titles
as proof of ownership.

Answer 26

encomienda

Question 27

The landlords are called _______?

Answer 27

“encomienderos”

Question 28

ones who collect the taxes or rent from the
residents of their land

Answer 28

“encomienderos”

Question 29

His obligation is to protect the residents from
any danger or threat like bandits and invaders

Answer 29

“encomienderos”

Question 30

major source of income for the colony during the early years

Answer 30

Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade

Question 31

Product came from China?

Answer 31

Silk

Question 32

Product came from Spanish?

Answer 32

Silver

Question 33

Private lands were determined through ________?

Answer 33

Land registration
Act of 1902

Question 34

Act was established to facilitate land
titling?

Answer 34

Cadastral Act of 1907

Question 35

They provide inputs for
production and the cash needed to tide cultivators over
during the planting

Answer 35

Kasama arrangement, landowners

Question 36

It provides tools and working animals and
were responsible for half of the expense of crop
production.

Answer 36

Tenant

Question 37

Policy of diversification gives emphasis to the
development of rice, fishing, forestry and mining.

Answer 37

Agricultural Program

Question 38

It provided for limited free
trade with the US – resulted to increase in trading
by > 500%.

Answer 38

Payne –Aldrich Act of 1909

Question 39

Land area of Philippine agriculture?

Answer 39

agricultural country covering a land area of
about 30 M ha having a 47% agricultural land.

Question 40

The prime agricultural land is located around?

Answer 40

main urban and high population density
areas

Question 41

In present agricultural situation the types of resource classification are?

Answer 41

 Forest land
 Alienable and disposables
 Agricultural lands

Question 42

 land with a tree canopy
cover of more than 10
percent and area of
more than 0.5 ha

Answer 42

Forest land

Question 43

 lands of the public
domain which have
been the subject of the
present system of
classification and
declared as not needed
for forest purposes

Answer 43

Alienable and disposables

Question 44

 share of land area that is
arable, under permanent
crops, and under
permanent pastures

Answer 44

Agricultural lands

Question 45

 13 M ha (total area devoted to crops planted with:

Answer 45

food grains( 4.01 M ha
(31%))
- food cropso 8.33 M ha
(52%) and
- non-food crops( 2.2 M ha
(17%)