( Lesson 4) TRANSFORMATIONS IN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
This is a set of activities that use land and other
natural resources to produce food, fiber, and
animal products that can be used for direct
consumption or sale, either as food or
materials (input) to the manufacturing sector.
Agriculture
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Nika
The community owns
land
Subsistence level
mixed family, part of the
produce is for consumption and the other
part is for livelihood.
Diversified
modern farming and the goal
is commercial farming (markets)
Specialized
Family consumption, land and labor, threatened by natural disaster, farmers are resistant to technological change
Subsistence Farming
Availability of credit,fertilizer, and marketing facilities. farmers need to secure about the investment (profit and his family can eat)
Mixed and diversified farming
This is determined by the season of planting and harvesting
Labor
This type of farming emerged when the economy and industrial sector were developed. capital intensive and labor saving technique
Specialized Farming
This is the rectification of the
whole system of agriculture. It is the
relationship between production and the
distribution of land among farmers.
Agrarian Reform
This is a strategy to improve
the economic and social life of a specific
group of people in the rural poor.
Rural Development
Technological innovation in farms and the use of green
revolution
Accessibility to seedlings, irrigation, and fertilizers
Availability of credit networks and technology for small- scale
farmers
Implementation of land reform programs
Access to education, health, housing
Suggested policies and strategies for
agricultural development:
Republic Act No. 6657
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
(CARP)
AGRARIAN POLICY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
is where we live,
and development is what we all do in
attempting to improve our lot within
that abode. The two are inseparable.”
Our Common Future, 1987
Environment
This refers to the “meeting of the
needs of the present generation without
compromising the needs of future
generations”
Sustainability