Status of vegetable industry in Mindanao [Philippines]
2004
Infante, M.N.,Southern Mindanao Integrated Agricultural Research Center, Dept. of Agriculture, RFU 11, Bago Oshiro, Davao City (Philippines). Regional Crop Protection Center
Mindanao is said to be the food basket of the country and part of that food being produced are vegetables. Some of these are used for 'pinakbet' such as eggplant, ampalaya, string beans, okra and squash while other vegetables are used for 'chop suey' such as carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, chayote and bellpepper. There are a number of potential areas for vegetable production in Northern and Southern Mindanao but a number of these are underdeveloped due to constraints in production, post-production and marketing. Aside from the vegetable growers there are a number of other stakeholders involved in the vegetable industry ranging from the input providers of vegetable seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, the hardware, such rainshelter materials, traders as well those in the transport of products. The GATT-WTO looms before us and will soon be implemented. It is imperative that the various stakeholders move as one and rationalize the Philippine vegetable industry in general and the Mindanao vegetable industry in particular. It is only through this that we can be globally competitive when the vegetable products of other countries will flood the Philippine market. We should be globally competitive in the sense that our products will at least be at par with those from other countries in price and quality.
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