The document discusses the agricultural sector in the Philippines, including agriculture, fisheries, and forestry. It notes that agriculture is very important as it provides food, clothing, and shelter. It also employs over half the world's workforce. The main agricultural products are crops like rice, wheat, fruits, vegetables, and livestock. It then provides details on agriculture in different regions around the world. It discusses the importance of the fisheries sector and sources of fish. It also outlines the current state of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and their key challenges in the Philippines.

1. THE AGRICULTURAL
SECTOR:
AGRICULTURE,
FISHERIES, AND
FORESTRY

2. The agricultural sectorconsisting of the agriculture,
fisheries, and forestry
sectors—are as equally
important as the other
economic sectors of the
country.

3. -Agricultural
activities play an
important role in economic
sustainability and
development of the
nation, and have been part
of the Philippines’
continuing progress since
the earliest times.

4. THE
AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRY

6. AGRICULTURAL AS AN INDUSTRY
Agricultural as an industry is
very important mainly because
it provides us with our food as
well as clothing and shelter.

7. More than half of the world’s laborers
also work in agriculture and
agriculture related jobs. Without
agriculture as an industry, producing
food for large populations would be
very difficult.

8. MAIN PRODUCTS IN
AGRICULTURE

9. Agricultural products are
mainly food products,
usually crops. These crops
include cereal grains such
as rice, wheat, corn, barley,
oats, and sorghum, which
are a big part of our diet.

10. There are also root crops like
cassava and potatoes; fruits and
vegetables; and various other
crops such as coconuts,
sugarcane, nuts, and coffee.
Other agricultural products used
as food include pigs, cattle,
chicken, goats, sheep, and
various other livestock, which
provide meat, milk, eggs, and

11. AGRICULTURE AROUND
THE WORLD

12. Agriculture is practiced in
most parts of the world. The
following is a general
description of how
agriculture is utilized in
various regions and
continents around the globe
.

13. Africa
- Only about one-third of the
continent is used for farming
because the rest of the land
consists of deserts and forest.
The main crops are corn,
sorghum, and cassava. Cereals
serve as Africa’s main agricultural
exports.

14. Asia
- Almost half of the lands in Asia is
used for agriculture. Millions of
farms are in the continent and
about 60% of the workers are in
farming. Many Asian countries
lead in producing certain
products.

15. Australia
-Farmland covers about 70% of the
continent but most of these are used
as pasture lands. Most of these farms
are commercialized that is they are
run as formal businesses with the
intent of getting the most profit.
Australia is one of the leading
producers of wool and dairy products
in the world .

16. Europe
- Half of Europe is abundant
farmland, and most of these are
used to grow corps. This is
assisted by abundant rainfall and
generally good climate
conditions. The main agricultural
crops in europe include barley,
potateos , wheat, oats, and fruits
and vegetables.

17. South America
-farming is commercialized in many
territories, but poor farmers have
gotten their own land through land
reform measures. Some of the
main corps in the region are
banana, coffee, cocoa, and sugar
cane , while most produce large
volumes of cattle for food.

18. North America
-the continent consists mostly of the united
states and canada. In the US ,more than
half of the land area is used for farming ,
but in canada, it is only about 10%
- Scientific farming methods and processes
have been used to come up with better
agricultural output.

19. AGRICULTURE IN THE
PHILIPPINES

20. The philippines contains many fertile
areas, and this is the reason why
agriculture plays a big part in its
economy. Almost half of the labor
force is into agriculture, and the
industry covers about 25% of the
GDP. The right combination of
climate, land, topography, and natural
vegetation has predisposed the
country to developing agriculture.

21. CURRENT
AGRICULTURAL
PERFORMANCE IN
THE COUNTRY

22. The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture
has reported that agriculture grew by
2.24 percent in 2005, and has managed
to better its 2004 record. Some of the
problems encountered during the year
were a mild EL Nino in the first quarter
and the prevalence of typhoons.
Generally, the prices of agricultural
products moved up, especially with
sugarcane, mongo, abaca, and garlic, as
well as dairy products.

23. MAJOR
TEMPORARY AND
PERMANENT
CROPS

24. -Major
temporary crops that were
actively pursued by farmers
include palay, the top major
temporary crop with 3.9 million
hectares of farm areas: corn, with
2.4 million hectares; and
sugarcane with 344 thousand
hectares.

25. -Among the major permanent crops
are coconuts, with about 320
million trees; bananas, with about
170 million hills; pineapple, with
161 million hills; abaca , with 60
million hills; and coffee, with 42
million trees.

26. Livestock
Hog raising, as usual, was the major
livestock raising activity throughout
the country in 2005 with 8.6 million
hogs raised, many from the Central
Luzon and CALABARZON areas.
This was follwed by carabao raising,
with 2.8 million heads; cattle, 2.3
million; goats, 2.1 million; and horses,
329 thousand.

27. POULTRY
The raising of chicken remained as the
top poultry raising activity in
2005, with about 127 million chickens
raised, many of which came from
Central Luzon, CALABARZON, and
northern Mindanao. This was followed
by duck raising, with 11.2 million
heads tended. The gross production
of poultry was valued at about 108
million pesos.

28. FARMS
By 2002, total agricultural
land in the philippines was
about 32 percent of the
country’s total land area.
Almost 4.8 million
agricultural farm were
registered covering 9.7

29. THE FISHERIES
SECTOR

30. The fisheries sector is a
very important industry in an
economy. It provides the
main source of food for
many people, and serves as
a source of jobs.

31. Fish
Is one of the biggest sources of
protien, a main ingredient in
nutrition, and it is also one of the
main courses in any meal, aside
from the usual meat and
vegetables. Thus, with the growing
population cornes a growing
demand for fish and fish products.

32. SOURCES OF FISH
1. Seas
-these provide the single largest source of
any fisheries.
2. Inland waters
-about 16 percent of the total commercial
fish catch are form inland waters such
as lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, and
fish farms.

33. 3. Fish Farms
- Fish farming, also known as
aquaculture , is a controlled
raising fish, lessening the
pollutants and other
environmental factors that may
affect them in open seas.

34. FISHERIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
-Although technology has provided
many countries with the ability to
fish in the oceans or intrude into
the territorial seas of the other
countries, it is still easier to
develop a country’s fisheries
sector in its own waters.

35. -Major fishing areas in the country
include Palawan, Sulu, Manila,
Mindoro, Zamboanga, and host of
areas that have local river
currents.

36. THE DEVELOPMENT
OF AQUACULTURE

37. Aquaculture
-also called fish farming , is the
development of fish and other sea
creatures in tanks, ponds, or offshore
pens.
-In the Philippines, ponds known as
―palaisdaan‖ are used to raise
milkfish, tilapia, mollusks, oysters and
crustaceans such as shrimps.

38. PRESENT PERFORMANCE IN FISHERIES
In general, fishery production went up by 6.47
percent, with aquaculture having the biggest
gain 10.41 percent

39. KEY PROBLEMS

40. Some of the key problems in forest
resources are the following:
 Continuing Deforestation- with only
about 5 million hectares of the forest
cover, the Philippines is now one of
the most severely deforested
countries in the Asia Pacific region.
Measures to combat
deforestation, such as plantation
development, have met with little
success, mainly due to illegal forestry

41. 
Illegal Logging- this is one of the
major illegal forestry activities. With
so many illegal logging activities
going on, the forest cannot anymore
replenish its trees. The government
has been helpless in monitoring and
enforcing laws on these activities.

42. 
Kaingin agriculture – this involves
burning a portion of the forest area
to be used for agriculture. After the
nutrients have been used for certain
period of planting, the people doing
this called kaingineros, move to
other forest areas to repeat the
illegal activity. Again, due to lack
funds, government has beeb unable
to monitor the activities.