{"id":34521,"date":"2014-12-08T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T03:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34521"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T03:32:42","slug":"wb-reports-says-ph-agri-sector-has-fallen-short-for-3-decades-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/08\/wb-reports-says-ph-agri-sector-has-fallen-short-for-3-decades-now\/","title":{"rendered":"WB reports says PH agri-sector has fallen short for 3 decades now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rice farmers in Batangas. Daniel Zuckerkandel \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank (WB) report, bearing the title \u201cPhilippine Development: Creating More and Better Jobs,\u201d revealed that the Philippine agriculture sector has been underperforming over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

The report said that compared to other countries in Southeast Asia, the Philippines not been up to par in the area of agricultural productivity, due \u2013 in part \u2013 to agrarian reform issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot counting the efforts of earlier governments since the 1930s, the current Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and its five-year extension under CARPER is now 26 years old, one of the longest in the world, and yet no significant development has been made in that sector,\u201d the World Bank said.<\/p>\n

The report likewise cited anomalies within the Department of Agriculture \u2013 the latest being the P900-million Malampaya Fund scam \u2013 as factors in the sector\u2019s slow development.<\/p>\n

It also pointed out that numerous beneficiaries of the agrarian reform program have sold or leased their land to consolidators, due to a lack of capital to fully maximize the productivity of their land.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe distribution process itself is also often hotly contested, with allegations that agrarian reform officers often include relatives or outsiders among the beneficiaries, dispossessing the actual tenant-farmers of their due,\u201d the World Bank report stated.<\/p>\n

Raul Fabella, economist of the University of the Philippines School of Economics, and the National Academy of Science and Technology said that the CARP has not been successful at improving farm productivity. Nor has it raised the quality of life of its beneficiaries. Instead, the program has only \u201credistributed\u201d poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have to redirect our agricultural focus from land equity to farm efficiency,\u201d Fabella said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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