Corn Production Project in Two Public Land Areas in Capiz, Philippines
Corn Production Project in Two Public Land Areas in Capiz, Philippines
Corn Production Project in Two Public Land Areas in Capiz, Philippines
Sitio Banta-aw, Cogon is in Panitan, Capiz. Its population is more than a thousand and
part of 3,789 barangay population. It is located adjacent to Barangay Rizal and Barangay
Bailan of Pontevedra, Capiz and home to large areas of land belonging to the Uygen’s and
Deslate’s and with more than twenty (20) hectares of abandoned government lots ready for
titling and cultivation. Its hilly portions are claimed by the Capiz State University in
Bailan, Pontevdra, Capiz, the Uygen’s and the Deslate’s.
a month with seasonal daily wage of 150-200 per day plus subsistence farm for
consumption just enough to pay debts with interests and to spend on higher costs of
production inputs.
The food threshold is the minimum income required by an individual to meet his or
her basic food needs and satisfy the nutritional requirements set by the Food and Nutrition
Research Institute (FNRI), while remaining economically and socially productive.The food
threshold helps measure food poverty or "subsistence," which may also be described as
extreme poverty.
The planned corn production in Ondoy and Cogon is being envisioned by the
members and farmers to support their needs and increase their income from subsistence
level of PHP 36,000.00 per year to PHP 60,000.00 of income annually per member
household and provide employment for the members of the family who are residing in the
area and cope up with disaster and poverty.
As start-up project, this farming endeavor will focus on rural industry development
on specific products such as high-breed corn. This will be enhanced later by a parallel
livestock growing, rooting for poultry, carabao and swine as most feasible.
Beneficiaries are the members of BPMP numbering one hundred (100) in 2 areas
mentioned.
Project Duration
The planned overall project’s duration is just four months, starting May or June this year
This timeframe will cover one (1) production cycle in two areas.
Continuity of the project will be ensured as similar efforts will be expanded duplicated in
other areas within and outside the barangay after 3 years. By that time BPMP will be
engaging in a medium to large scale production involving a plantation type farm.
Proposed Start Date
June 2019
Proposed Finish Date
August 2019
Affected Area Chosen /Geographical Region
The target area for corn production will cover an initial total area of forty (40)
hectares –twenty (20) hectares of land in Cogon and another twenty (20) hectares in
Barangay Ondoy. It is hoped that these areas will be joined in by other members of BMPM
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with available land for production use and will expand to a total of one-hundred (100)
hectares in three (3) years-time. Within the defined areas, the project will assist small and
medium-scale farmers who are members of BPMP to organize themselves and to improve
their access to and benefit from corn farming.
Objectives
3. Adopt the integrated farming system for food security among the
beneficiaries.
6. To reduce the dependence of farmers for most of the inputs like seeds
and plant protection material by sourcing local resources thereby reducing
the cost of cultivation.
Planned Activities
The main project activities will include:
provision of 2 water pumps each area, farm tools, machineries and
equipment;
joint activities for corn farming awareness thru education and training;
building capacity in economic management (i.e. book keeping, stock
management), technical management (operators) and organizational
management;
disaster awareness and preparedness and relief efforts during calamities;
linking and networking with government agencies, experts, marketing
outlets and other funding groups
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2 self-managed, economically viable and sustainable rings are established, providing corn
farming services to the members and other farmers, networked and linked with suppliers
and relevant technical service providers;
at least 100 households have directly improved their access to equipment and an additional
100 households are benefiting from services for mechanized farm operations;
skilled staff both in organizational and farm management and disaster preparedness;
at least 100 persons have received training in the management of the organization and its
components;
Corn production offers a means to address food self-reliance, rural development, nature
conservation and a way of planting the lands as requirement for titling. The common idea is
the sustainable use of bio-diversity, in terms of contributions to agriculture - people’s
consciousness towards healthy food, ecology and pollution free environment through
conventional farming.
BPMP members are not new in the field of agriculture, particularly in corn
production. This project will also pave the way to legally processing land ownership
to the tillers themselves.
BPMP maintains mass base in the following provinces in the country: Iloilo, Capiz,
Antique, Guimaras, Nueva Ecija, Isabela, Tarlac, Ilocos Sur, Bohol, Negros Occidental,
Lanao Norte, Bukidnon, Mindoro Oriental and Occidental, Batabgas and Compostela
Valley.
The central issues and concerns that confront BPMP is the widespread poverty among the
rural folks and the general backwardness of the Philippine agriculture brought about the
persistence of landed monopoly, very low wages, high cost of farm inputs such as seeds and
fertilizer and very low prices of farm products because of monopoly in trade of trading
cartels, lack of capital among small producers, among others.
It is also around these issues that BPMP draws its life—in educating, organizing and
mobilization the masses of rural poor—land issue, wage struggle, demand for support
services, environment protection, globalization and other labor and agriculture-related
policy issues.
The urgent issues that currently confront BPMP is the issue of Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program (CARP). The position of BPMP is for the program to be extended and the
budget for support services to beneficiaries substantially increased.
Other issues, actions and campaigns, except for globalization are generally
regionalized/localized like the land struggles in Iloilo, Capiz, Nueva Ecija, Bohol, Bukidnon,
etc; the tobacco levy issue in Ilocos, wage agricultural wage increase struggle in Iloilo,
among others.
To date, BPMP is involved in rice trading and palay procurement program in coordination
with the National Food Authority (NFA) and has been doing this for the past ten (10) years
already.