Status, Challenges & Status, Trends & Emerging Trends Challenges. Dr. Danilo C. Cardenas Deputy Executive Director for R & D DOST - PCARRD

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1 Philippine Philippine Agriculture Agriculture: : Status, Challenges & Status, Trends & Emerging Trends Challenges Dr. Danilo C. Cardenas Deputy Executive Director for R & D DOST - PCARRD

2 STATE OF PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Majority of Philippine farms remains basically engaged in smallhold agriculture. From , agriculture s share to GDP dropped from 21% to less than 15%. In 2004, 37% of total population still engaged in agriculture. From , our annual growth rate in agriculture (value added) is posted at 2.5%

3 STATE OF PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Philippine exports in tropical fruits like banana, pineapple, mango and papaya are international benchmarks in global trade; The sector is also highly competitive in the exports of fishery products, banana chips, coconut oil, sugar and abaca as well as in hogs and poultry products. Production performance in other commodities however are mixed and erratic such that we remained as a net food importing country.

4 EMERGING TRENDS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Markets, not production, increasingly drives agricultural development -Value addition & product differentiation rather than producing more has become increasingly important to improving incomes, reducing malnutrition/poverty, & for competing in the global market; Managing rather than exploiting resources is a key to sustainable gains.

5 EMERGING TRENDS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Former R&D clients are now becoming important partners - Technology users are becoming more central in innovation and technical change. In the past, farmers, the private sector and LGUs were considered as merely technology users but now, they are fast becoming major active partners in agricultural development.

6 EMERGING TRENDS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Public RDIs are no longer the only source of information - Combining collective wisdom and knowledge of potential partners, with hands-on experience is becoming a new way of generating innovations. What seems to be emerging is a public-private co-innovation partnership in which both parties share R&D benefits/responsibilities and contribute to costs.

7 EMERGING TRENDS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE Development potential of the agricultural sector is rapidly being defined in the international arena production, trade & consumption conditions for agricultural products are growing more dynamic and evolving in unpredictable ways.

8 EMERGING TRENDS IN PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE New fields of science such as biotechnology, value chain, indigenous knowledge systems, and ICT are greatly influencing how agricultural RDE is being conducted Innovations are being generated thru networking, linkages and partnerships leading to a marked change in the knowledge structure of the aggie sector.

9 CHALLENGES The poor state of local infrastructure has dampened the positive effects of increased agricultural productivity on agricultural commodity prices, kept transport and post-harvest handling costs inexorbitantly high and inhibited agricultural growth from further stimulating the progress of the non-aggie sector as it did in most NICs.

10 CHALLENGES With our ever increasing population, the amount of arable land suited to agriculture has declined, water availability becoming scarce, and the extent of environmental degradation is on the rise.

11 CHALLENGES Other set of challenges are also emerging from a constantly shifting development scenarios such as trade liberalization, IPR issues, climate change, heightened interests on innovations systems/biofuels, rapid urbanization associated with land use conversion & changing food habits/ lifestyles and the appearance of many players in agricultural R&D are changing the pattern and nature of agriculture.

12 CHALLENGES Barriers to change needs to be surmounted -Given this new developments, existing organizational structures, roles, behaviors, habits, practices and policies will have to be reexamined and adjusted accordingly to what is needed to facilitate agricultural innovation.