Every year, the sector of agriculture gets one of the smallest budget for the rest of the term. The only question we can leave behind is, why?
We get our daily supplies for foods through the sector of Agriculture. You cannot say that it wasn’t that much of a factor in the economic stand, that’s hilarious.
Agriculture is composed of four sub-sectors; farming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry. Under it was 38.9% of the labor force and contributes 20 percent of GDP. Hence, to say it more clearer, agriculture has a stand in the economic growth.
But in the recent years, people are more interested in industrialization, thus making it more difficult for the agriculture sector to level up its game.
Industrialization is becoming more valued, in a way that it affects the growth and stabilization of the agricultural sector. Ofcourse, people always want to invest on the new one thinking that because the other one is already stable, they should somehow make a new investment, ofcourse, for expansion. But it’s not what it’s supposed to be.
Philippines, has been known as the Agricultural country, we are the largest rice exporter, but funny thing is, in the Philippines, we lack of supply, and imports other crops from other countries. Bluntly, what in the world is happening to our agricultural sector?
To put things on place, there are different studies conducted, in concern for the industrialization and agricultural, one research paper conducted by Benette Rivera of De La Salle, Unviersity entitled “A study on the Effects of Industrialization to the Agricultural sector of a Developing Country” shows that industrialization actually helps improve the agricultural production in the developing country – Philippines.
Nevertheless, agricultural sector in the Philippines is striving to stay stable, talk about the farmers with small lands closing because of modernized farming of those with the bigger lands.
Why is it that always the people with smaller bills were neglected? And those with the bigger bills are the ones who benefits the most? If we were to enumerate all the problems under the agricultural sector, bluntly saying, the government’s lack of support would be the top of it all. Pity how we cannot stretch out the needs of this sector yet we consume its expenditure at the extreme.
For a developing country, even the underdeveloped or developed, Agriculture is the source of food supply. And in a fast pacing population growth, this is the best time to start putting more effort and support on the Agri-sector, because the demand for food is starting to increase at a fast rate, we doesn’t want more people to die of hunger, aren’t we?
And the bottomline of this? Agricultural sector also deserves the limelight when it comes to the planning of development, budget proposals and plans for the economic growth. For today, the limelight is on War against drugs, and we hope that for tomorrow, the focus is on Agriculture and everyone would gladly pay attention on the numerous problems that the sector is undergoing right now and then.
(1) The effects of Industrialization to the Agricultural Sector of a Developing Country – Philippines by Benette Louie Rivera.
(http://www.academia.edu/4421420/The_effects_of_Industrialization_to_the_Agricultural_Sector_of_a_Developing_Country_-_Philippines)
(2) Philippine Agriculture
(http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Philippines-AGRICULTURE.html)
(3) Importance of Agricultural Sector in a Country’s Economic Development
(https://ippmedia.com/en/features/importance-agricultural-sector-country%E2%80%99s-economic-development)
-KABD