The team of the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office XI including its attached agencies braces for the collection of the baseline survey to all provinces of Davao region for the National Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization and Industrialization Plan (NAFMIP).
The NAFMIP is a medium-term plan developed to achieve the goal of a food-secure and resilient Philippines with prosperous and empowered farmers and fisherfolk. It aims to obtain baseline information and collect data on key agriculture and fisheries indicators including issues and concerns in food production.
Agriculture Regional Executive Director Abel James Monteagudo said that NAFMIP is not only design for competition or to compete with the other countries that are producing food but it is also design to abreast the country and achieve modernized systems, competitive agri-fishery products, empowered farmers and fisherfolk, strengthened partnerships and institutions, and resilient natural ecosystem.
“We implement NAFMIP because we need to move forward and compete in the sense that agriculture in the world is getting advance and we cannot afford to be left behind”, Monteagudo said.
He added that with the fast-growing population of the country, agriculture industry must address the problems and obstacles that pertains to food sufficiency and food supply.
The NAFMIP provincial roll-out will commence on January 11 – 21, 2022 covering Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao City, Davao Oriental, Davao Occidental, and Davao de Oro through online and limited face to face meetings and workshops. (PR-Eve Gicole Deligero / DA-RFO XI, RAFIS)
