What Is Agritourism?

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This course is intended to enhance the knowledge and skills necessary for the students to advocate agriculture tourism in organizing,planning, developing, and promoting of high - potential farm-based tourism experience

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TMPE 3 AGRITOURISM

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Can be defined as a form of commercial enterprise that links agricultural production and/or processing with tourism to attract visitors onto a farm…

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Agritourism

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a form of tourism that focuses on actively participating in a rural lifestyle. It can be a variant of ecotourism, emphasizing sustainable practices and community involvement. Many villages can facilitate tourism because of the hospitality and eagerness of villagers to welcome or host visitors.

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Rural Tourism

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which provides an overarching framework for developing and promoting farm tourism activities in the country.

It defines farm tourism as “the practice of attracting visitors and tourists to farm areas for production, educational and recreational purposes”. It includes any agricultural or fishery-based activity for farm visitors, tourists, farmers and fisher folks who want to be educated and trained on farming and its related activities.

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RA 10816 - FARM TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ACT

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aims in realizing equitable distribution of benefits and opportunities through the empowerment of the small farmers. The law recognizes the country’s responsibility for the welfare and development of small farmers by giving them support in attaining their socio economic goals. The law encourages the participation of small farmers, farm workers, farmers’ cooperatives and organizations to participate in the planning, organization, management and implementation of agricultural programs and projects.

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RA 7607- THE MAGNA CARTA FOR SMALL FARMERS

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refers to natural persons dependent on small-scale subsistence farming as their primary source of income and whose sale, barter or exchange of agricultural products do not exceed a gross value of One hundred eighty thousand pesos (P180,000)…

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Small Farmer

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refers to farmers’ cooperatives, associations, or corporations duly registered with appropriate government agencies and which are composed primarily of small agricultural producers, farmers, farmworkers, and other agrarian reform beneficiaries who voluntarily join together to form business enterprises which they themselves own, control and patronize;

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Farmers Organization

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refers to any self-employed individual who, by himself or with his family, provides the primary labor requirement of his business enterprise or one who earns at least fifty percent (50%) of his gross income from the payment, proceeds or income of the labor he provides;

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Small Agricultural Producer

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refers to farm-to-market roads, irrigation, rural electrification, ports, drying areas, public sites, warehouses and other physical facilities used for productivity enhancing services, extension management assistance, training, research and development;

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Production Infrastructure

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include, but are not limited to, seedbed and land preparation, planting, weeding, pest and disease control, fertilizer application, water management and harvesting;

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Pre harvest Activities

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include, but are not limited to, threshing drying, milling, storing and handling of produce and such other activities as shelling, stripping, winnowing, chipping and washing;

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Post harvest Activities

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refers to the technology transfer provided by the Government and nongovernment organizations to the agricultural sector such as training of farmers, credit assistance and the like;

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Extension Services

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includes roads, bridges, ports, airports, and the different modes of transportation using these infrastructure;

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Transportation Infrastructure

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include, but are not limited to, plows, harrows, tractors, rotavators and sprayers;

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Pre harvest Facilities

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include, but are not limited to, threshers, moisture meters, dryers, weighing scales, milling equipment, storage facilities, buying stations, market infrastructure and transportation facilities;

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Post harvest Facilities

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refers to facilities such as market buildings, slaughterhouses, holding pens and cold storage used by the farmers in marketing their produce;

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Market Infrastructure

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refers to assistance extended by the Government to the farmers in terms of discounted prices of farm inputs such as fertilizer, pesticide and seed;

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Input Subsidy

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includes production or other types of loans used for the acquisition of work animals, farm equipment and machinery, seeds, fertilizers, poultry and livestock feeds and other similar items; acquisition of lands authorized under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL); construction or acquisition of facilities for the production and effective merchandising of agricultural commodities;

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Agrarian Reform Credit

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refers to the payment of Government of an additional amount for every unit of output sold by the farmers in the open market;

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Price Subsidy

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is a natural person who renders service value as an employee or laborer in an agricultural enterprise or farm regardless of whether his compensation is paid on a daily, weekly, monthly or pakyaw basis;

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Farmworker

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refers to planting of upland crops which usually require less water than other crops, as in non-irrigated and elevated farm areas;

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Upland Farming

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refers to banks duly organized under Republic Act 7020 with authority to operate under existing laws;

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Rural Bank

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refers to banks whose owners are farmer’s associations or cooperatives;

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Cooperative Bank

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refers to the banks duly organized under Republic Act 4093 with authority to operate under existing laws;

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Private Development Bank

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collectively used, means the rural banks, cooperative banks, and private development banks as defined in paragraphs 17, 18 and 19, Sec. 3 of this Act;

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Banks

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are agricultural lands which are supported by irrigation services;

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Irrigated Lands

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are agricultural lands which lack irrigation systems and are usually rainfed;

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Non-Irrigated Lands

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refers to seeds that passed the seed certification standards of the Bureau of Plant Industry and which are the progeny of foundation, registered or certified seeds that are so handled as to maintain satisfactory genetic identity and varietal purity;

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Certified Seed

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refers to seeds that are the progeny of certified seeds so handled as to maintain a minimum acceptable level of genetic purity and identity and which is selected at the farm level;

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Good Seed

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refers to a duly registered association of persons, with a common bond of interest, who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common social 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;

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Cooperative

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refers to a pest management system which utilizes all suitable methods and techniques in as compatible a manner as possible to maintain the pest population at a level below that causing economically unacceptable damage or loss without endangering the environment; and

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Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

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refers to the form of lumber, gravel and sand, nipa, sawali, old G.I. sheets and other low-cost, indigenous or used materials that could be used as inputs in small infrastructure projects.

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Locally Available Materials

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is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for training agricultural extension workers and their clientele; conducting multi-level training programs to promote and accelerate rural development; and ensuring that research results are communicated to the farmers through appropriate training and extension activities.

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Agricultural Training Institute (ATI)

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is a farm that practices applicable agricultural technologies, employs doable farming strategies, and operates successfully, thus, worthy of emulation. The farmer/farm family is relatively advanced compared to the rest of the farmers.

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Learning Site for Agriculture I (LSA I)

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The Farmer/Farm Family is referred to as Farmer-Trainer. The activities cover the value chain approach from production, processing/value adding, packaging and successful marketing strategies. They have functional facilities needed to undertake live-in training and extension activities such as classrooms with training equipment.

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Learning Site for Agriculture II (LSA II)

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aims to hasten and improve the delivery of agricultural and fisheries extension services to the farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous people (IP), agrarian reform beneficiaries, and other stakeholders in support of the thrusts of R.A. 8435 and R.A. 11511.

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Private Agriculture and Fisheries Extension Service Provider (PAF-ESP)