DA will revamp programs including initiatives under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).
Department of Agriculture Secretary Dar said he wants to institutionalize the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture (DA)is currently beefing up plans to conduct a major revamp of the Philippine rice industry.
This was announced this week by Agriculture Secretary William Dar who said that the department’s team of experts and consultants recently met to discuss measures on how to elevate the country’s rice sufficiency level.
Dar said they will revamp programs including initiatives under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).
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Agriculture and Food Security Southeast Asia Regional Program Leader Dr. Leocadio Sebastian joined other experts in the meeting. He said that the targets would dictate how rice lands will be used in the future.
The meeting centered on how to improve the rice sufficiency level and double the income of farmers in five years by maximizing the RCEF.
It will also mainstream climate change adaptation measures in DA programs at the regional and local government unit levels.
Secretary Dar said he would like to not only mainstream but also to institutionalize the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA).
AMIA is a flagship program of the DA for climate adaptation and mitigation. The program is currently coordinated and managed by the department’s Systems-Wide Climate Change Office.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, major challenges that affect the future of food and agriculture include population growth, urbanization, and ageing, increasing competition for natural resources and land degradation, and natural disasters and climate change.
