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Corn Rationale

Corn is the second most important crop in the Philippines. The Corn Agri-Pinoy Program aims to increase corn production for food, feed, and industrial uses to boost farmer incomes and reduce reliance on rice and imports. The goals are to achieve sustainable growth for the corn and cassava sectors to mutually benefit farmers and agribusinesses. The program promotes post-harvest facilities, subsidized seed distribution, and strategies like expanding corn areas, public-private partnerships for financing and marketing, and interventions to increase yields.

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Corn Rationale

Corn is the second most important crop in the Philippines. The Corn Agri-Pinoy Program aims to increase corn production for food, feed, and industrial uses to boost farmer incomes and reduce reliance on rice and imports. The goals are to achieve sustainable growth for the corn and cassava sectors to mutually benefit farmers and agribusinesses. The program promotes post-harvest facilities, subsidized seed distribution, and strategies like expanding corn areas, public-private partnerships for financing and marketing, and interventions to increase yields.

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Rationale:

Corn is second to rice as the most important crops in our country. In fact Department of Agriculture
through its Corn Agri-Pinoy Program continue to intensify the promotion of white corn grits as staple food.

The Corn Program aims to increase production of quality corn r human consumption, feeds and industrial
uses, and to boost the income of corn. To reduce rice demand, the program quests for stable and
sustainable supply of white corn grains and cassava, likewise to be independent in feed crops, yellow
corn and cassava to respond the growing demand of the livestock and poultry sub-sectors.

Goals

To achieve a sustainable growth for the corn and cassava sub-sector at a level where it can mutually
benefit with the feed milling and livestock industries in region 8 and to make corn and cassava farming a
competitive and profitable enterprise for the farmers in the region.

Promote:
1. Introduce Post Harvest Facility
2. OPV Seed Production & Exchange Subsidy - Provided seedss of quality registered and certified
OPV corn seeds under counterpart arrangements with Local Government Units (LGUs) to
farmers whose main staple is white corn grits

Strategies

Corn
1. Expansion of corn area (2013-2017)
2. Partnership with the Business Sectors in Corn Production Financing and Marketing
3. Focused interventions in sixteen (16)cluster areas regionwide (2013-2017)
4. Increase productivity (density planting and s

The City Agriculture Office support the basic mandate that is to produce quality food for consumption.

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