The Strategic Agribusiness Development Plan (SADP) in the Philippine Agriculture
By Elmer R. Esplana (Member SADP Team and Writer, Livestock and Poultry Situational Report)
The SADP formulation serves as a common reference for the Department of Agriculture and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), private sector and other donor agencies in formulating assistance program related to agribusiness and in executing such programs in the Philippines. It also provide policy makers with recommendations to increase farmers' income through agribusiness development in the Philippines.
The Strategic Agribusiness Development Plan (SADP) goal for the Philippine agriculture in the next 5 to 20 years is: "an agribusiness that makes effective use of inputs and market opportunities, steadily intensifying and diversifying production, and delivers full benefits to farmers, rural communities, and other stakeholders."
SADP goal implies a value-chain approach, addressing constraints from "farm to shelf" or or "feed to fork" and providing benefits for all players along this value chain. To achieve this goal, SADP's four distinct components derived from situation analysis published in February 2009 and October 2009 in two reports funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the Philippine Department of Agriculture.
The four distinct components of SADP include: 1)Farm transformation or from subsistence farming to market-oriented farming; 2) Market Change or Market Development through new business model; 3) Market Change through Market Infrastructure; and 4) Strengthened support through information network, research & extension, food safety system, rural finance and the different agribusiness modalities to boost the agribusiness development in the Philippines.
If we have a successful agricultural business, this will lead to agro-tourism that we wish for.
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Successful agricultural business means an improved agribusiness and agro-industry activities cut across the integrated supply chain. These activities transcend to the modernization of marketing and post-production infrastructure, including food service, leisure and tourism facilities; laboratories and training facilities being used in the transmission of agricultural learnings, knowledge and education, development of scientific researches, development new knowledge and the dissemination of them to farmers and other agro-industry stakeholders in the chain; and the development of more business models appropriate to the respective area/location. These indicators are expected to happen as major ingredients or components of agribusiness development. If these will happen, these developemnts will basically attract more local and foreign tourists to visit and observe the new developments and improvements in the different parts of the country. It is also important to note here that we need to make our simple farmers in into an entrepreneurs, having their own indiviual profitable, competitive, and sustainable agribusiness. Their individual agribusiness venture will support the socio-economic development of our country, in general, and specifically their respective area of agribusiness operation like city or municipality or province, where they are located. In this situation, agro-tourism will serves as a product of agribusiness development in the Philippines, in the succeeding 5 to 20 years or more. We hope to see these things happen with our individual and integrated contribution and advocacy for the Philippines. A good example of agro-tourism site is the Bohol Bee Farm of Vicky Wallace which could be found in www.boholbeefarm.com. There is a need to increase the number of this kind of agro-tourism site in the country, as potential investment opportunities for new and seasoned entrepreneurs. You might be one of them. God bless and more successes to come.
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