Profiles for Crop Production-based Investment Opportunities in Sariaya, Quezon

Date

5-2015

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management

College

College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Loida E. Mojica

Committee Member

Hanna D. Miranda, Dinah Pura T. Depositario, Reynaldo L. Tan

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Abstract

This research on crop production-based investment opportunities aimed to: (1) assess the human capabilities, natural, economic resources and social facilities of Sariaya, Quezon; (2) determine gaps and opportunities in the Sariaya, Quezon’s agribusiness sector, in terms of crop production, focusing on the critical location determinants of investment projects and development projects; and (3) recommend crops that have production potentials in Sariaya, Quezon.

A five point step was conducted in the identification of crop production-based investment opportunities. The first step was identifying the priority crops of the municipality and the province of Quezon. This was followed by the matching on technical suitability and the resource endowments of the municipality. The third step was evaluating the demand/supply as well as the marketing support availability of the priority crops that passed the matching process. Identifying the government and infrastructure support was done as a fourth step to determine the enabling environment in the municipality. The fifth step was estimating cost and return on crops that have negative supply-demand gap.

Twenty-seven crops were included in the priority list of the Provincial Agriculture Office of Quezon. From among these crops, only twenty crops passed the matching process on technical requirements and resource endowments of Sariaya, Quezon. These crops were subjected to supply and demand evaluation. From the twenty crops, only fourteen crops passed the demand and supply evaluation and were subjected to cost and return analyses. These crops namely eggplant, mustard, pechay, sweet potato, calamansi, papaya, banana, finger pepper, ginger, peanut, watermelon, radish, chayote, and mango showed favorable returns with reference to the total expenses and are highly marketable due to negative supply-demand gap. In support of the identified crop production-based entry points, the municipality has enough agricultural labor force. Thus, these crops are highly recommended to be cultivated in barangays that technically match the requirements and are currently not growing these crops. Moreover, intercropping is suggested due to land constraints in some barangays, to increase profit as well as to maximize land use (i.e mango intercropped with vegetables). In addition, cluster farming is encouraged to attain economies of scale since vegetable farmers in Sariaya only allot small areas of land for vegetables. Aside from technical suitability, marketability and profitability of the identified crops, climate variability should also be considered. Since climate change is inevitable, climate adaptation programs and practices on crops recommended in this study should be implemented.

Language

English

LC Subject

Crops, Agricultural processing

Location

UPLB College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Call Number

LG 993 2015 M17 R43

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