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Economic World LEDC Case Study.

Economic World LEDC Case Study. Wet Rice Farming in the Philippines. What do you need to know?. Where is your case study? What is the climate like there? What is farming life like in the Philippines? How has the government influenced farming in the Philippines?

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Economic World LEDC Case Study.

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  1. Economic World LEDC Case Study. Wet Rice Farming in the Philippines.

  2. What do you need to know? • Where is your case study? • What is the climate like there? • What is farming life like in the Philippines? • How has the government influenced farming in the Philippines? • Give specific examples of two farms.

  3. Location

  4. Location • A group of islands north of Indonesia, SE of China. • Climate – average temp of 25 degrees C and 1800mm of rain of which 80% falls June-December often during tropical storms. • Population of 70 Million, 70% of which are farmers.

  5. Farming in the Philippines • Mostly subsistence farming, many do not own their own land. • Rent is paid by giving a proportion of the crop grown. • Average farm size 1.5-2 hectares. • Ever increasing urban populations have to be fed with imported rice.

  6. How has the government influenced farming life? • Since 1970’s the Filipino government has been trying to introduce high yielding varieties of rice which require fertilisers (the Green Revolution). • Poor farmers can not afford this so only richer farmers benefited. • More recent research has been crossing more traditional varieties with faster growing ones with some success.

  7. Case Study examples • Two different farms need to be learnt for intensive wet rice farming. • These are located on Negros Occidental on the Philippines. • Be aware of the key differences between the 2 farms; - Maximo Casiendo - The Flora Community

  8. Maximo Casiendo

  9. The Flora Community

  10. Classifying the 2 farms • Maximo Casiendo – intensive, subsistence, arable. • The Flora Community- extensive, subsistence, organic, arable.

  11. You are comparing the practices of these intensive farming systems with those of a farm in the EU (Home Farm, Birmingham). This will be looked at in the next revision session.

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