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.
