Author: DA Communications Group | 4 June 2020<\/div>\n
Starting this year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will vigorously push for farm clustering and consolidation, being one of the key strategies to level up the Philippine agriculture sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to convince farmers and their respective cooperatives and associations or FCAs to collectivize and come together to optimize the interventions and assistance provided by the DA and other government agencies,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary William Dar.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecondly, it is easier and more cost-efficient and effective for the DA to deal with organized farmers through their FCAs than individual farmers, as we provide them appropriate training and cutting-edge technologies, including farm inputs like seeds and fertilizers, and farm equipment and machinery,\u201d added Secretary Dar.<\/p>\n
\u201cThereafter, we will urge them to scale up by clustering and consolidating their farms to attain economies of scale. This will enable them to greatly reduce their cost of operations, attain bountiful harvests, and earn bigger incomes,\u201d the DA chief said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will offer clustered and consolidated farms with incentives on top of the regular technical and marketing assistance under our major commodity programs. Incentives will come in the form of farm machineries such as tractors, harvesters, mechanical dryers, and processing equipment and related infrastructure. And we will enhance what we have started under our National Corn Program (NCP),\u201d Secretary Dar added.<\/p>\n
As a way to encourage farm clustering and consolidation, the DA\u2019s NCP will recommend a \u201cno cluster, no assistance\u201d policy in terms of production, postharvest, processing, and marketing assistance, said NCP Director Lorenzo Mamauag Caranguian.<\/p>\n
The DA will provide the clustered FCAs appropriate trainings, including mentorship on preparing their respective corn or cassava enterprise development plans. They will also be capacitated to venture in post-production activities such as processing, value-adding, and marketing, to further augment their incomes, said Caranguian.<\/p>\n
Currently, the NCP is coordinating with the DA regional field offices and local government units to identify prospective cluster farms, he added.<\/p>\n
The DA-NCP will showcase the successful Villa Luna corn farmers\u2019 multi-purpose cooperative, in Cauayan City, Isabela, that serves as a model for farm clustering and consolidation, Caranguian said.<\/p>\n
Farm clustering and consolidation \u2014 one of the eight paradigms under the \u201cnew thinking for Philippine agriculture\u201d advocated by the DA since August 2019, and now institutionalized under the Food Security Development Framework \u2014 will also be implemented by other commodity programs on rice, high-value crops, including coconut, sugarcane, banana, coffee, and vegetables, Secretary Dar said.<\/p>\n
In all, the country\u2019s farm holdings are small and fragmented, according to a survey conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in 2012.<\/p>\n
Of the total 5.56 million farms, with an aggregate area of about 7.2 million hectares (ha), the PSA said about two-fifths or 39 percent (%) were half-a-hectare and below, while roughly one-third or 32% ranged from 1-3 ha.<\/p>\n
The 2012 survey also showed that less than 20% of farms measured 0.5 to one hectare; nine percent \u2013 three to seven hectares; and two percent were considered large, measuring seven hectares or more. ### (NOR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author: DA Communications Group | 4 June 2020 Starting this year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will vigorously push for farm clustering and consolidation, being one of the key strategies to level up the Philippine agriculture sector. \u201cIt is important to convince farmers and their respective cooperatives and associations or FCAs to collectivize and continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[619,620,622,621],"class_list":["post-13906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-farm-clustering-and-consolidation","tag-national-corn-program","tag-no-assistance","tag-no-cluster"],"yoast_head":"\nFarm clustering, consolidation needed to level up agri sector (repost) - 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