Municipal Agricultural Profiling

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Municipal Agricultural Profiling

Gaphor M. Panimbang

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I. Definition

II. Major Components

III. MAP Information Needs, Sources and Data Generation Processes and Tools

IV. Diagnosis of Municipal Agricultural Profile Data Gaps

Municipal Agricultural Profiling(MAP’ing)

• The process of describing the agricultural features of a municipality

• has 8 major components

• its product is the Municipal Agricultural Profile (MAP)

II. MAP’ing Components

1. Agricultural History

2. Physical Characteristics

3. Social Characteristics

4. Agricultural land Area, Use and Ownership

5. Local Agricultural Development Support/Enabling Mechanisms

II. MAP’ing Components

6. Production, Marketing and Income Profile

7. Resource-based Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

8. Identified Comparative Advantage of the Area; Commodities (crops, livestock and fishery) of Comparative Advantage

9. Recommended Priority Programs and Projects based on Competitive Assessment

MAP Information Needs, Source, Process and Tools

1. Agricultural History –important events put together to establish agricultural landmarks, history of agricultural issues and problems and crops/livestock/fishery commodities

of comparative advantage.

Source : Discussion group of oldtimers and present-day farmers actively involved in agricultural activities.


Tool: Agricultural Historical TimelineProcess:1. Identify “old timers” who can be key informants2. Hold a group discussion for the recall of important

events3. Use the ff. guide questions:

When did residents start living in area? What major agricultural events took place in the area.

Arrange them in chronological order. Arrange in chronological order also information on crops and livestock introduced in the area and their area adaptability.

Which among the crops/livestock introduced gave highest returns to farmers in terms of production levels and income.


Tool: Agricultural Historical Timeline (con’t)

Check if there are gaps or data blanks. Enumerate what could have caused low/high

production and income in crop and livestock production.

4. Arrange data gathered and have them review the historical data.

5. Analysis : Ask the discussion group the implications of the collected data. Check what issues and problems felt at present relate to problems related to agriculture in the past


Tool. Municipal Agricultural Profile Information Needs Sheet

•Location

•Land area

•Topography

•Weather, Climate, Rainfall Pattern, Dry

and Wet Season Months

•Type of Soil


Source: Existing CLUP, ELA, MCDP, SAFDZ

Plan

Process:

1.Cull data required from documents

2. Fill in MAP info sheet with required data

3. Social Characteristics

Information Needs Source ProcessHow to do it

Tool

Total no. of farmers, fishers (male, female)

Average annual income

-farmers, fishers

- farm laborers Profile of agric’l. orgs.

-membership

-thrusts Major agricultural

events/household events

Availability of major household needs

Updated agri-fishery data or by-barangay survey of farming, fishing households

Research data from existing updated planning documents

Or

Conduct by-barangay survey by barangay officials headed by the Barangay Kagawad in charge of the Agriculture Committee

MAP Information Needs sheet

(Attachment A)

- the attributes of people in the area

4. Agricultural Land Area/Use/Ownership


Tool

Land Ownership (owned/tenanted

Actual area devoted to crops/livestock/fisheries

Total area devoted to SAFDz (breakdown accdg. To priority crops)

List of major crops and livestock and area devoted to them

Updated plan documents data

Or

Updating by survey of area allocation

Document research

On CLUP, ELA, MCDP, SAFDZ, etc.

Filling up f required data in info needs sheet

MAP Information Needs Sheet

(Attachment A)

5. LAD Support/Enabling Mechanisms


Tool

Multi-sector Structure Capacity for LAD Local policies issued

and enforced

Available agri infra support facilities (irrigation, training center, tractor, harvester, thresher, solar drier, copra drier, abaca stripper, rice-corn mill, grains warehouse, livestock auction market, slaughterhouse, market, etc.)

LAD Capacity Assessment results

Local legislators, organization leaders, barangay officials

Farmer/fisher leaders (MAFC Chair, coop leader, FA president, RIC president, etc.

LAD Capacity Assessment

Interviews with SP, survey of agri-fishery organization resolutions and barangay ordinances.

Survey of agricultural facilities operating in the area.

LAD Capacity Assessment

Interview Sheet

(Attachment B)



Tool

A.Production

Cropping Cycle Major crop diseases Major livestock diseases Major fish ailments

Farmer/fisher leaders (MAFC Chair, coop leader, FA president, RIC president, etc.

The seasonality diag-ram shows the seasonal patterns and trends of data on crops/

livestock and fish diseases,

production and harvest throughout the year.

How:

1.Show seasonality matrix to participants;

2. Allow them discuss and fill up specific months when planting /diseases/harvests occur;

3.Establish trends.

Seasonality Diagram

(Attachment C)

Sample Seasonality Diagram

Crops Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov.

Dec.

1. Rice

2. Corn

3. Coconut

4. Banana

5. Vegetables

(Specify)

Cropping Cycle



Tool

B. Commodity/Marketing System Flow

(raw and processed)

First five major crops

First five major livestock raised

First five major fish/fishery products

Crops and livestock commodity producers, village traders, agri-fishery product processors,/wholesalers/retailers/

exporters

Survey interview of key informants

How to do it:Ask informants re first five

crops/livestock and fishery products and where they go after harvest;

1. What processed products are derived from them

2. What markets buy raw or processed products;

3. Plot the directions the commodity follow in the commodity flow/marketing system flow chart.

Commodity Flow Chart

(Attachment D or p.12 of PASA Tools)


Information Needs

Source ProcessHow to do it

Tool

Income

(from raw, processed products)

Farmer/fisher leaders, village traders, agri-fishery product processors,/wholesalers/retailers/

exporters

Interviews of informants

How to do it:

1.Asks informants re first 5 crops,livestock and fishery products produced in the area;

2. Inquire re price of commodities from all levels of buyers which they will identify;

3.Inquire re value-adding of coomodities with processing undertaken;

4.Determine types of commodity processing giving higher returns

Interview Sheet

(Attachment E)

7. Resource-based Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

Information Needs


Tool

Identification of

SWOT of agriculture and fisheries based on availability or absence of required natural endowment, infra, institutions, credit and financing, hu-man resources, support policies, technologies, etc

Farmer/fisher leaders, village traders, agri-fishery product processors

Focus Group Discussion

How to do it:

1. Brief participants on the importance of the activity;

2. Discuss the information required from them;

3. Ask questions on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the agri-fishery sectors;

4. Enable participants identify strengths and opportunities based on results of the competitive assessment and situation analysis.

Focus Group Discussion Design for SWOT Analysis and Identification of Prospects and Challenges

(Attachment F)

7. Identified Prospects and Challenges

Information Needs


Tool

Prospects of the area in agri-fishery development

Needs, problems and challenges

Priority Programs and Projects

LAD Home members, farmer and fisher-leaders

Participating in the Focus Group Discussion

Focus Group discussion

How to do it:

Brief participants on the importance of the activity;

1. Discuss the information required from;

2. Ask questions on the area prospects and challenges in agriculture and fisheries;

3. Enable participants identify priority programs/projects based on results of the competitive assessment and situation analysis

Focus Group Discussion Design for SWOT Analysis and Identification of Prospects and Challenges

(Attachment G)

Diagnosis of Municipal Agricultural Profile Data Gaps of LGUs

MAP Section Information Needs Data Gaps

Re-marks


Important, agricultural events, crops/livestock/fishery production/processing/marketing history, issues/problems


Location, land area, topography, weather/climate, rainfall pattern, dry and wet months

3. Social Characteristics Total number of farmers, fishers, farm laborers; average annual income; profile of agri org’ns.; major agri events, etc.

4. Agricultural Land Area/Use/Ownership

Land ownership, area devoted to crops, livestock, fisheries; total area for SAFDZ; etc.

5. LAD Support/Enabling Mechanisms

Local policies issued and enforced

Available agri infra and support facilities (irrigation, tractor, training center, market, etc.


Cropping cycle, major crop/livestock/fishery specie diseases; first 5 major crops/livestock/fishery products, income from first 5 major crops/livestock, livestock/fisheries

7. Resource-based SWOT

8. Identified Prospects and Challenges

Agri-fishery sector strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

Area prospects in agri-fishery development, needs/problems and challenges, priority programs/projects

Business

Municipal Agricultural Profiling