EconomicsI(Finals)

A business of raising plants and animals useful to man.

Agriculture

It includes cultivation of the soil
The production & harvesting of crops
the care and breeding of livestock

Agriculture

Give at least 3 types of activity done in agriculture?

Aquaculture, Dairy farming, Pig Farming, Lumber, Poultry farming, Ranching, Animal husbandry, Rice farming ... etc.

What are the importance of agriculture?

•Source of food for the economy
•Source of raw materials
•Source of foreign exchange (exports)
•Source of employment

What are the three Patterns of Agricultural development?

•Traditional Agriculture
•Modernizing Agriculture
•Modern Agricultural stage

Also known as Subsistence farming; farmers cultivate the land and crops to feed their family, uses traditional methods.

Traditional Agriculture

Farmers produce enough surplus to be traded in the market, in exchange for cash. uses techniques to help increace the production of crops.

Modernizing Agriculture

Specialized agriculture processes produce for the commercial purposes; make use of modern and improved technology.

Modern Agricultural stage

farm operator own the land on which they work on

Full-owners

farm operator partly owns and partly leases the land

Part-owners

farm operators who rent or lease the land

Tenants

farm operator that supervise day-to-day operations and receives a salary or part of the harvest for their services

Farm Managers

What does DAR mean?

Department of Agrarian Reform

_ _ _ is the lead implementing agency of comprehensive agrarian reform program.

DAR, Department of Agrarian Reform