**needs updates and improvement
this slides are made with excerpts from other sources like, books,publication, journals, magazines and on-line sources.No plagiarism intended.
intended for the review in the upcoming may 2015 agriculture major admission test of Cavite State University.
for inquiries email me at: darkspot0713@gmail.com
**needs updates and improvement
this slides are made with excerpts from other sources like, books,publication, journals, magazines and on-line sources.No plagiarism intended.
intended for the review in the upcoming may 2015 agriculture major admission test of Cavite State University.
for inquiries email me at: darkspot0713@gmail.com
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Rice Farming in the Philippines: Some Facts & Opportunities
1. Rice farming
in the
Philippines:
some facts and
opportunities
V. Bruce J. Tolentino, Ph.D.
Deputy Director-General
International Rice Research Institute
September 2015
5. 45
50
55
60
65
70
Consumption per capita in kg/person
Thailand = 140 kg
Myanmar = 228 kg
Philippines = 120 kg
Vietnam = 215 kg
We like rice!
Global, per
person = 65 kg
10. Changes in rice farming in
the Philippines: Insights
from 50 years of the
IRRI Loop Survey
11. IRRI Loop Survey
•Initiated in 1966, every 4-5
years until 2011-12, 23 rounds;
•Detailed records on rice
production in both wet and dry
seasons.
•The world’s longest survey
series of rice farming and rice
farm families.
13. Central
Luzon
Loop
Survey
• Surveyed farms at specific kilometer posts
along highway “loop” (50th, 100th, 150th etc.)
• Same field surveyed, even when the operator
changes) Plot-level panel data
14. Land reform: since 1963, speeded up from
1972, then again 1987 # of owner-
cultivators↑
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Land tenure
Mortgaged-in
Borrowed
Share tenant
Leaseholder
Owner
22. Fertilizer price and use
• Introduction of MV fertilizer demand
• fertilizer use ↑ (regardless of p↑)
• N use in 1980s close to recommended level
N Price, WS NPK application, WS
24. Insecticide use
Education campaigns & IPM reduction of
insecticide use
Direct seeding since 80s increasing herbicide
use
(kg active ingredients per ha)
25. Maintaining low
insecticide use
• Philippines farms use the lowest amount
than other countries: Thai, Vietnam,
Indonesia, and China;
• New varieties released since 1997 have
less resistance to pests and diseases
(Laborte et. al, 2015);
• Should resistance traits again be added
to future varieties? Are there alternative
approaches to pest management?
26. Yield growth over 5 decades
Yields more than doubled. DS yields steadily
increased. WS yields plateaued at 4 t/ha.
29. Small scale mechanization
Small scale mechanization has proceeded rapidly.
Carabaos still useful sides and corners of fields
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Land preparation: WS
Rotavator
Large tractor (4W)
Power tiller (2W)
Animal
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Threshing: WS
Big thresher
Small
thresher
Manual
threshing
30. DS farm labor over time
MV is labor using for
crop care. Labor
use increased Mechanization, direct
seeding (in DS only),
short duration MVs
Substitute hired
“porcientuhan”
labor for more
expensive family
labor
31. Declining real paddy price
• Net rice buyers (marginal farmers and
urbanites) are the beneficiaries of GR.
Real
2012
price
33. Changes in farm profit
• Declining profit in WS, almost zero in 2000s.
• Maintained profit in DS.
Real price
at 2012
34. Stagnant WS yield
WS yields plateaued at 4 t/ha. Kajisa (2015):
major reason is flood, a man-made disaster.
35. Poultry farm blocks water flow
Highway blocks water flow
Man-made floods?
Central Luzon flooding is very site-specific.
Irrigation vs. flood control?
36. Reducing losses
due to floods
WS flooding is worsening:
•A man-made disaster? Flooded
areas in patches, seriousness varies
by location.
•What is best approach? Breeding or
engineering?
38. Factors behind profit changes
Gross revenue
• DS: Paddy market price ↓ < Yield ↑
Revenue ↑
• WS: Paddy market price ↓ > Yield --
Revenue ↓
Total costs
• Total cost stable (both DS and WS);
• Farmers have substituted less expensive
inputs (hired labor) for more expensive
inputs (family labor).
39. Schooling has improved
Average schooling: 5 years in 1966, 9 in 2011;
Increasing number of HS and college graduates
among younger farmers.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1966-67 1970-71 1974-75 1979-80 1982-83 1986-87 1990-91 1994-95 1998-99 2003-04 2007-08 2011-12
College
High
school
Elementary
No
education
40. Changes in income sources
Rice farming has become just a side business.
The family farm now managed by family member, with
aged parent remaining in HH.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Other sources (rentals, etc.)
Remittances
Off-farm employment
Livestock and poultry
Nonrice crop
Rice
41. Rural aging (1979-2011)
1979:
average
age of
farm
operator:
43
Young exit to industrial, service sectors;
Current rural pyramid looks like those in DCs.
2011:
average
age of
farm
operator:
59
42. Increasing % of
female-headed farm HH
1966-
67
1970-
71
1974-
75
1979-
80
1982-
83
1986-
87
1990-
91
1994-
95
1998-
99
2003-
04
2007-
08
2011-
12
Male 100 100 98 99 99 98 96 94 89 85 87 81
Fe-
male
2 1 1 2 4 6 11 15 13 19
Possible key factors:
• Death of husband
• Sons are working in non-farm sectors.
43. Obstacles to improved
productivity
• Prolonged land reform inactive land
rental market little land consolidation
weaker adoption of improved seeds,
technology, mechanization dormancy or
decline in productivity;
• Land improvement constrained Rolling
landscape, soft soils, and small plots
difficult to operate combine harvesters
location specific diffusion.
44. Labor inefficiencies
Outsourcing of farm labor may
increase inefficiency:
• Frequent replacement of labor;
• New laborers increasingly less
skilled and unfamiliar with specific
agro-ecological characteristics of
the farms they work upon.