EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - National Agricultural and Fishery Council ...

Statistics (BAS), Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), and National Statistics
Office (NSO)], and information dissemination [Information Technology
Center for Agriculture and Fishery (ITCAF), and Agriculture and Fisheries
Information Service (AFIS)]. The overall AFMA achievement and target
were not encouraging. The Law may have set targets that were ambitious
from the standpoint of organizational capabilities and budgetary support.
Nevertheless agriculture growth was recorded and some advances were
made despite broad-based resource constraints. The growth could be
mainly attributed to private sector investments.
AFMA General Impact and Implementation on Marketing and Information
39. The workshops in the 16 regions showed that AFMA Marketing and
Information impact and implementation had low to moderate ratings. The
participants rated AFMA implementation as poor to fair.
40. The major factor that emerged was the limited budget relative to the AFMA
targets. In addition, the severely inadequate information, education and
communication campaign (IEC), and the high expectations generated
could have contributed to the stakeholders’ disaffections. The poor IEC
with respect to the conversion of all agriculture and fishery related
programs and projects as cornerstones of Agriculture and Fisheries
Modernization Plan has heavily contributed to the poor perception.
AFMA Impact and Implementation
Rating Rice Corn HVCC Livestock Fisheries
GENERAL IMPACT
High 1 1 3 - 3 (a)
Moderate 5 6 8 7 5
Low 7 8 4 7 6 (a)
None 3 1 1 1 3
IMPLEMENTATION
Good 1 1 2 1 2(b)
Fair 7 6 10 6 7
Poor 5 7 1 7 9(b)
None 3 2 3 1 0
(a) Fisheries in Region 4-A had two ratings: aquaculture and marine.
(b) Fisheries in Regions CAR and 3 had two ratings for marine and aqua
41. The regional picture indicated mixed performance. The Team felt that
some deserving regional directors did not receive good ratings. They, too,
have suffered from the stakeholders’ backlash, in many cases, for no fault
of their own.
General Impact of AFMA, Perception by Region
REGION Rice Corn HVCC Livestock Fisheries
CAR L L* L, M - H
Region 1 H M H L L
Region 2 N L M L M
Region 3 M H M M H- Aqua, L- Marine
Region 4-A L M M M M
Region 4-B M M M L L
Region 5 L M H M M
Region 6 M L H L M
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