EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - National Agricultural and Fishery Council ...

In the Visayas, the top priorities were: irrigation, credit, other infrastructure,
marketing support, and post harvest facilities. Central Visayas rated other
infrastructure as higher priority than irrigation.
Priority Sectors of AFMA Components: VISAYAS
Component/
Region 6 7 8 Ave. Cluster Rank
Irrigation 1 2 1 1.3 1
Credit 3.5 5 2.5 3.7 2.5
Marketing 5.5 4 5 4.8 4
Post-harvest 3.5 3 11 5.8 5
Other Infrastructure 2 1 8 3.7 2.5
Education 9 11 2.5 7.5 8.5
Information Support 11 9 7 9.0 9.5
Product Standards 10 7 10 9.0 9.5
Extension 7 10 4 7.0 7
Trade 8 6 6 6.7 6
R & D 5.5 8 9 7.5 8.5
Mindanao’s priorities differed from the rest of the country. Its top five were: other
infrastructure, marketing support, post harvest facilities, credit and education.
Irrigation copped the top slot only in Western Mindanao and Southern Mindanao.
It rated low in Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao, Caraga and ARMM. By
contrast, other infrastructure rated No. 1 in Northern Mindanao, Southern
Mindanao, Central Mindanao and ARMM.
Priority Sectors of AFMA Component: MINDANAO
Component/
Region 9 10 11 12 Caraga ARMM Ave.
Cluster
Rank
Irrigation 1 7 1 11 11 8.5 6.6 7
Credit 4 11 4 3.5 4 5 5.3 4
Marketing 5.5 2 2 1.5 1.5 7 3.3 2
Post-harvest 2 3 3 3.5 7 2.5 3.5 3
Other
Infrastructure 3 1 1 1.5 4 1 1.9 1
Education 9 7 7 6 1.5 2.5 5.5 5
Information Support 7 7 8 5 8.5 4 6.6 7
Product Standards 8 9.5 6 8 6 10 7.9 9
Extension 11 9.5 10 10 10 8.5 9.8 10
Trade 5.5 5 10 9 4 6 6.6 7
R & D 10 4 5 7 8.5 11 7.6 9
The principal lesson: regional priorities vary. So far, irrigation (primarily for
rice) had the largest budget share at 30 percent but in fact, rice comprised less
than 30 percent of farms, 17 percent of gross value added in agriculture and
fisheries, and 17 percent of gross farm value. In the process, development of
deserving farm products was stifled due to lack of rational allocation criteria.
Irrigation must also include high value crops.
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