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A MARKEING REPORT IN
AGRICULTURAL ENREPRENEURSHIP
Presented by:
Javier, Mary Rhosellyn Anne
Villamor, Rhina
Castillo, Cezar
Nuevo, Danielle
Rodriquez, Andrew
I.
MARKET
AUTO-SPRINKLER AGRICULTURAL MACHINE
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), The Philippines has a total
land area of about 30 million hectares and approximately 9.67 million hectares of which are
classified as agricultural. The agricultural land area represents 32.22% of the total land area
of the country. This explains why the data from the May 2014 Quick Stat show that in
January 2014, in terms of employment, the agriculture sector takes up 10.93 million persons
out of the total 36.42 million workforce which accounts to 30% of the total employment. The
figures clearly show that basically, Philippines is an agricultural country.
Intriguingly, however, if we compare figures, there was a huge drop in farming
related employment. In October 2013, or just three (3) months earlier, PSA recorded 45.2%
farmers. The number of persons involved in agriculture is constantly decreasing every year.
Primarily, this is because the new generations of job seekers do not consider farming as a
profitable employment. The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (now PSA) conducted a study a
few years ago and their findings show that an average farmer earns only about Php 20,000
per year. That is just less than Php 2,000 per month which way below the poverty line is. This
explains why farming has become one of the least liked jobs in the country today. In fact, as
early as September 8, 2011, Kristine L. Alave, through the Philippine Daily Inquirer, stated
that the "Philippines is running out of farmers".
There are two things the agricultural sector needs to improve on and
nothing more, nothing less:
1.) It is the improvement of its technological tools as well as shifting
the industry towards becoming capital-intensive. In an aggregate sense,
technological progress in capital would mean the purchase of better
equipment, as near as possible to the state of the art.
2.) Technological progress in labor (farmers) would mean that they
become more educated, and this education should prove that it is not
optimal for the farmers to do manual labor without the use of machines;
this is very inefficient.
Area (ha)
Percentage
Agriculture
9 728 800
32.95
Forestry
19 062 600
64.56
Settlement
131 400
0.44
8 700
0.029
Inland Fisheries
595 700
2.02
Open Land
1 100
0.004
Total
29 528 300
100.00
Wild Bonsai
McArthur Highway, Barangay Parsolingan, Gerona, Tarlac City, Tarlac
VITARICH CORPORATION
McArthur Highway, Abangan Sur, Marilao, Bulacan
soil-cultivated gardens, being able to grow indoors and generally faster plant
growth.
Electric Spray drill - With power spraying the source of power is either an
electric or gasoline engine wherein the designed mobile application is the
main controller of the sprayer. In all cases, the liquid is ejected by the
action of a pump through hoses or wands and finally through a nozzle or
groups of nozzles.