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AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES 2025 MID-YEAR CONFERENCE: ASSESSMENT AND WAYS FORWARD

AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES 2025 MID-YEAR CONFERENCE: ASSESSMENT AND WAYS FORWARD. TASK FORCE ON RICE AND OTHER STAPLES SECTOR October 7, 2011. General Comments. On achieving rice self-sufficiency by 2013 target is over-optimistic rice self-sufficiency by 2016 more plausible

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AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES 2025 MID-YEAR CONFERENCE: ASSESSMENT AND WAYS FORWARD

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  1. AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES 2025 MID-YEAR CONFERENCE:ASSESSMENT AND WAYS FORWARD TASK FORCE ON RICE AND OTHER STAPLES SECTOROctober 7, 2011

  2. General Comments • On achieving rice self-sufficiency by 2013 • target is over-optimistic • rice self-sufficiency by 2016 more plausible • requires a palay production growth rate of 7.10% p.a. versus the historical growth rate of 3.47% p.a. • Increasing income of farmers should have equal, even higher priority, as national rice self-sufficiency • Integrated in the Food Staples Self-sufficiency Plan (FSSP)

  3. KEY PRIORITIES

  4. IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

  5. Irrigation restoration and rehabilitation Status Way Forward • Part of NIA’s priority programs under the Food Staples Self-Sufficiency Roadmap • NIA to • - generate 100 T ha, restore 90 T ha and rehabilitate 144 T ha of serviceable area • - adopt irrigation technologies to increase irrigation benefits • Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture (SIA) • Irrigation Rehabilitation cum Modernization (IRM) • Rotational Water Distribution (RWD)

  6. Generation of new irrigation systems at the rate of 40,000 ha per annum NIA – to generate 81 T ha and restore 54 T ha serviceable areas in 2012 Way Forward

  7. Rationalization of NIA Operations Status NIA - consultation workshops with IAs and NIA staff held on 6-7 August 2010 and 19-20 May 2011 - national consultation conference on irrigation operations held 26-27 September 2011

  8. Rationalization of NIA Operations Way Forward • NIA to conduct consultation conferences to determine improvements to the IMT implementing guidelines • IAs and NIA to maintain 80-20 sharing scheme of irrigated/water-users fee collected • Continuing high level of support to NIA

  9. AGRICULTURAL CREDIT Status • Single digit interest rate for small producers • Bankability of farmers 15% per annum inclusive of interest rate, crop insurance premium and/or guarantee fee • RP to contract a Japanese Yen Loan equivalent to US $250 million at 0.2% p.a. • CRBs and MFIs to lend at 6-7% p.a. to small farmers and fisherfolks Way Forward

  10. CROP INSURANCE Status Way Forward Expansion of insurance penetration from 2.5% - 5% • PCIC Proposed budget for 2012 - forwarded to the Senate Committee on Finance • PCIC Budget - at least P500 million in 2012 and P1 billion starting 2013 to expand insurance coverage • Farmer insurance premium to be pegged at 1% and the balance to be subsidized by government (ACEF as possible source)

  11. Additional support to pilot other types of insurance programs Status Way Forward PCIC already provides the insurance programs aside from rice and corn • Provision of additional insurance fund to PCIC

  12. STRENGTHENING OF EXTENSION Way Forward • Strong support for broadening ATI mandate • Provide ATI with additional funds • Need to mobilize SUCs • Expand model established by UPLB with DA RFUs • Need an EO for immediate implementation • Strengthen the AFCs down to the barangay level (partnership with the SUCs and other farmer groups) • Creation of Inter-agency Task Force to operationalize • MOA between DA and DILG - full commitment of the DILG to support the operationalization

  13. PROMOTION OF BROWN RICE Status Way Forward Policy seminar/workshop - held last September 29, 2011 to discuss the pros and cons of brown rice consumption and commercialization • DA to take the lead in promoting brown rice (short-cut to achieving rice self-sufficiency)

  14. PALAYAMANAN

  15. Mainstreaming of PALAYAMANAN approach of Philrice Status • BAR - 34 CPAR rice-based projects • ATI - concept of Palayamanan in its training (hand in hand with Palaycheck System) - diversified farming (thru OA Program) • Proposal to support the budget request for PALAYAMANAN - forwarded to the Senate Committee on Finance.

  16. Mainstreaming of PALAYAMANAN approach of Philrice • BAR – to enhance total diversified farm productivity & profitability • ATI – to launch Schools for Practical Agriculture (SPA) or “SanayansaPagsasaka at Adhikaing pang Agrikultura” Way Forward

  17. Need for public support for the different sources/producers of good seeds Status • PhilRice - production of source seeds • BPI • Seed Certification to support the Accredited Seed Growers (thru NSQCS) -spearheads implementation of Rice Seeds Buffer Stocking and Community Seed Bank thru the RFUs/LGUs, farmer’s associations, coops -facilitates seed grower’s access to loans thru the National Seed Growers Federation -Promotion of organic rice production in all identified palayamanan sites (600k Ha)

  18. Need for public support for the different sources/producers of good seeds Way Forward • PhilRice – to look for innovative means of commercializinghybrid rice varieties??

  19. ON-FARM MECHANIZATION

  20. Modernization of Rice Mills • Not functional/underutilized flatbed dryers Status • Counterparting scheme on Rice Milling System adjusted to 85%:15% • PHilMech conducts validation of project potential recipients • Complete implementation of Rice Mill Modernization Way Forward

  21. FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS Status • Set target of 2500 kms paved FMRs per year i.e. about P5 billion p.a. Per Usec Joel Rudinas of DA, the budget for paved FMRs is already included in the DA 2012 budget.

  22. NFA REFORMS

  23. NFA to focus on buffer stocking Status • NFA has targeted under the Food Staples Self-Sufficiency (FSSS)/NFA Road Map certain percentages of total production targeted by DA • NFA distribution : (1) as stock replenishment and (2) when there is a price surge • NFA started to increase its selling price of rice from P26 in 2010 to P30 in 2016, to approach market price levels

  24. NFA to focus on buffer stocking Way Forward • Acquisition of 229 units of bio-mass furnace mechanical dryers by NFA • Conduct of/participation in policy dialogue/s • Completion of the 2011 ARP to set NFA’s capital • Operationalization of the DA-NFA MOA on the build-up of dryers • Formulation of policy guidelines on the gradual phase out of NFA’s distribution program

  25. Provide budget for NFA procurement Status • NFA budget set and approved • 2011-P2.5B; 2011-2016 –P4B/year (even with NFA’s increasing rate of procurement of local farmers’ palay production)

  26. RATIONALIZATION OF DA BUDGET ACROSS COMMODITIES • Restore PhilRice Budget • Budgets broadly congruent with values • Re-align some of the rice budget to severely underfunded programs

  27. RATIONALIZATION OF DA BUDGET ACROSS COMMODITIES

  28. Audit, Monitoring and Evaluation of past and current DA programs • Billions spent each year on irrigation, seeds, postharvest facilities, farm machineries • Need to account for productivity/performance of past programs • Roles of private sector, SUCs, NAFC stakeholders • NEED TO HAVE SYSTEMS IN PLACE

  29. TASK FORCE ON RICE AND OTHER STAPLES SECTOR Chairperson: Dr. Emil Javier, NAST-DOST DA Focal Person: Asec. Edilberto De Luna, Corn Program Mr. Dante Delima, Rice Program Members: Mr. Romeo Royandoyan, Centro Saka Inc. Mr. Raul Montemayor, FFFCI Mr. Jaime Tadeo, Rice Farmers Council Ms. Hazel Tanchuling, RWAN Resource Persons: DA Concerned Bureaus/Attached/Units

  30. THANK YOU

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