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The document discusses the challenges facing Filipino farmers and the agriculture sector. It notes that agriculture employs around half of the Filipino workforce but farmers remain among the lowest and most disadvantaged groups despite the critical role of ensuring food security. Farmers are vulnerable to crises like natural disasters due to high poverty levels. While farmers view crises as inevitable, the document argues it is underlying social and economic impediments like lack of infrastructure, debt, and inability to compete with imports that make resilience difficult rather than the crises alone.

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The document discusses the challenges facing Filipino farmers and the agriculture sector. It notes that agriculture employs around half of the Filipino workforce but farmers remain among the lowest and most disadvantaged groups despite the critical role of ensuring food security. Farmers are vulnerable to crises like natural disasters due to high poverty levels. While farmers view crises as inevitable, the document argues it is underlying social and economic impediments like lack of infrastructure, debt, and inability to compete with imports that make resilience difficult rather than the crises alone.

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Major Performance Task: Writing a Testimonio

HIRRAH REIGNE C. GAGUAN


STEM 11-Charity

“Agriculture in the Philippines”

Our country has seen many crises in the past. The Philippines consistently ranks
among the world's most dangerous countries, from natural disasters to social and political
upheaval. Unfortunately, one industry, in particular, suffers the weight of these difficulties.
The agriculture sector, which is regarded as the backbone of our society, answers our
public health demands by guaranteeing food security for all Filipinos. Despite their critical
function, Filipino farm laborers remain one of our society's lowest and most
disadvantaged groups. Our farmers are particularly vulnerable to the effects of these
crises due to their high levels of poverty. Agriculture employs approximately half of the
Filipino workforce. Agriculture thus plays a significant part in the economy, from supplying
food security to exporting local products (vegetables, fruits, etc.). Prices of agricultural
inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, and other agricultural inputs have risen dramatically in
the absence of state controls on agriculture-related markets. Inadequate infrastructure
investment (free equipment to use such as corn ceiler) exacerbates the problem. Because
of widespread importation, vast supplies of inexpensive rice flood the market, causing
domestic rice prices to collapse. Many farmers are forced into debt-bondage as a result
of these causes, prolonging the poverty cycle among them.

To add experience in this testimonial essay, I've seen a lot of failures in farming
(in Bukidnon, to be exact) and, my mom is one of them. It takes a lot of sacrifices to put
the effort from day 1 to buy seeds, fertilizer, etc. Until the day of harvest. A lot of people
would say that we're stable because we have our land to farm, yet they didn't know that
it took many years just so my parents own land to farm. I've seen them devasted just
because the crops (corn and squash) they planted will be sold in the market for a low
price. By that, they would be able to pay to exact the labor and the Bank that they owe
money to have finance in farming and the cycle of having dept begins. As a millennial that
seen other countries progress with the modern way and new varieties of crops to adapt
the climate change, especially floods and other disasters, I want to be the voice to
encourage the Government to support the farmers in adopting the new system of
agriculture. We normalize the situation of the farmers. The farmers tended to view crises
as beyond their control and had gradually learned to develop acceptance of their
conditions. For them, crises are a fact of life; they are inevitable risks associated with
farming. We might think of their attitude as a part of their resiliency. It's their method of
presenting their position in a more positive light. However, it is also a reflection of a more
complex and chronic issue that has hampered the agricultural economy for decades.
Despite this, many farmers remain enthusiastic about our country's agricultural business.
Agriculture, for them, will always be an important industry, critical in tackling many of the
difficulties confronting modern civilization. Agricultural laborers, therefore, require
substantial assistance, and national reforms are required.

In short farmers face challenging situations as a result of crises. However, it is not


these crises that inevitably put them at a disadvantage. During my interactions with them,
I understood that greater structural forces may have enhanced their vulnerability and
impaired their ability to deal with such events. It is the social and economic impediments,
rather than the crises themselves, that make adaptation and resilience difficult.

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