Productivity and resource efficiency under favorable upland environment
1995
Gonzaga, R.R. | Hossain, M. (International Rice Research Inst., Los Banos, Laguna (Philippines). Social Sciences Div.)
Upland farms which largely produce subsistence crops take the heaviest toll from increasing population pressure. Sloping areas in the Philippines have been shifted to a permanent and more intensive farming. Similarly, farmers' tendency to shift towards cash crops, cassava in particular, without the benefit of external soil nutrient usage has contributed to soil degradation. This study investigates the sustainability and productivity of intensive farming under unfavorable upland environment. This study was based on a two-part intensive household survey in Claveria, Misamis Oriental i.e. 1992 survey and record keeping data from 1986. The paper investigates farm level changes in land use patterns, the profitability of cultivating alternative crops and cropping systems, and the changes in productivity and resource use efficiency associated with changes in farming systems. While new agricultural technologies are critical to the development of a sustainable and productive upland agriculture systems, years of research effort in an acid-upland area in Claveria, Misamis Oriental to address part of the issue has yet to manifest its results. As such, farmers have yet to fully incorporate these new technologies into their present management and cultural practices, and realize higher productivity from applied resources
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