agsci module4 lesson 2

- plays a strategic role in the process of economic development of the country

- an increased agricultural output and productivity tend to contribute substantially to overall economic development of the country

- tasked to promote agricultural development by providing framework, public investment, and support services needed for domestic and export-oriented business enterprises

- envisions a food-secure Philippines with prosperous farmers and fishers

- ATI was established

- mandated for training the members of rural-based organizations, agricutural extension workers and their clientele to promote and accelerate rural dvelopment

- Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act

- strengthened the role of ATI as the DA's extension and training arm and overall manager of A&F training and extension of the country

ATI take the lead role in the implementation of extension programs of the DA, including the management of extension funds

Bureau of Agricultural Research was created

- known as the Administrative Code of 1987

- mandated to ensure that agricultural research are coordinated and undertaken for maximum utility to agriculture

- known as "Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanization (AFMech) Law"

- Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering was created

- mandated to monitor the implementation of the National Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Plan of the Department of Agriculture

- plan implement, and evaluate the development of agricultural mechanization and infrastructure in the agriculture sector

- mandated to develop and promote standards to ensure food safety, quality, worker's health and welfare, environmental management, and global competitiveness of Philippine agriculture and fishery products

- one of the key players in the Organic Agriculture Industry

- dividing the Bureau of Agriculture into two distinc entities:

- Bureau of Animal Industry was organized

- promotes the development of the livestock industry and investigates the causes of dangerous communicable diseases from animals so their speed could be prevented

Bureau of Plant Indudtry Primary Tasks

responsible for the development, improvement, management, and conservation of the country's fishery and aquatic resources

Bureau of Fisheries was established

reorganize tge Bureau of Fisheries and became Philippine Fisheries Commission

renamed as Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

- sole national soil resource agency in the Philippines

- established on June 5, 1951 as the Bureau of Soil Conservation

- Agricultural Credit policy Council (ACPC) was created

- to synchronize all agri-credit policies and programs in support of the Department pf Agriculture's priority programs

- to monitor and evalutate the economic soundness of all credit programs

- ACPC became an attached agency of the DA

- mandated to administer the Comprehensive Agricultural Loan Fund (CALF) through Administrative Order No.5

- Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority(FPA) which wa crested (May 30, 1977), replacing the Fertilizer Industry Authority

- mandate can be categorized into regulatory, monitoring, evaluation, and promotion

National Meat Inspection Commisssion (NMIC) was created

- known as "The Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines"

- renamed the NMIC as National Meat Inspection Service

NMIS is tasked to formulate, promulgate abd implement laws, policies, programs and projects governing the post-harvest flow of meat in order to protect the interest and welfare of consumers and promote the development of the livestock and meat industry

sole national controlling and competent authority pertaining to meat inspection and hygiene both for locally produced and imported meat

- an Act Creating the Philippine Carabao Center to Propagate and Promote the Philippine Carabao ans for other Purposes

- mandated to conserve, propagate, and promote the Carabao as a source of milk, meat, graft power abd hide to benefit the rural farmers

- National Postharvest Institute for Research and Extension (NAPHIRE) was created on May 24,1978

- to accelerate the development of the grains postharvest industry in the country

NAPHIRE became aqn attached agency of the Department of Agriculture

- NAPHIRE was transformed as regular agency of the Department of Agriculture

- renamed as the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE)

- known as goverment's 2004 Rationalization Program

- BPRE was rationalized and renamed into the Philippine Center for POsharvest Development and Mechanization

- mandated to generate, extend and commercialized appropriate and problem-oriented agriculture and fishery postharvest and mechanization technologies, practices and system

Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries was reated out of the consolidation of two councils the National Agricultural Fishery Council (NAFC) and the Livestock Development Council (LDC)

strengthened functions related to coordination and monitoring of agricultural and fisheries modernization processes, and development of public-private partnership as advisory special bodies to the DA

- Fiber Industry Development Autority (FIDA) was created dated July 27, 1981

- mandated to promote the growth and development of the Philippine natural fiber, except cotton

- Cotton Development Authority (CODA) that was created on February 11, 1998

- mandated to undertake initiative that will spur the growth of the local cotton industry

- a result of the consolidation of FIDA and CODA

- mandated to promote the growth and development of the natural fiber industry through research and development; production support; extension support, education and training services; fiber processing and utilization; and standards implementation and trade regulation

- Philippine Rubber Researcg Institute Act of 2010

- to initiate and administer research and development programs to improve productivity and quality of rubber in the country

Corporations attached to the Department of Agriculture

- formal training of agricultural professionals is the responsibility of the more that 270 schools offering agriculture courses in the Philippines

- Eight of there are CHED Centers of Excellence in Agriculture

Schools Offering Agriculture Courses

Agricultural courses offered by universities and colleges

Bureaus under the umbrella of the Department of Agriculture

Government agencies attached to the Department of Agriculture