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Intends to encourage farmers to shift from low value, marginal crops like coconut and corn to profitable crops like asparagus, mangoes, cutflowers etc. in order to earn much higher levels of income.

National and Use Act
PD 1144
High Value Crops Law (RA 7900)
House Bill No. 01095

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Establish the National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines (NCBP) which is responsible for formulating a national safety mechanism and is empowered to regulate, the entry, propagation, use and movement of introduced as well as a genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) to protect local biological resources, environment and human health, conduct risk assessments and monitor all on-going and proposal initiatives involving the use of GMOs.

Biosafety guidelines
RA 3601
EO 430
House Bill No. 01095

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Guidelines which involve works related to genetic engineering activities, activities required for the importation, introduction, field release and breeding of organisms that maybe potentially harmful to people and the environment.

EO 430
House Bill No. 01095
Biosafety Guidelines
High Value Crops Law (RA 7900)

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Basically the consolidation and update of the existing laws on IPR governs the protection of the intellectual creation in the country.

House Bill No. 01095
Biosafety Guidelines
RA 8293 or the IPR Code of the Philippines
EO 430

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Deals with patentability of life forms, states that plant varieties breeds or animal breeds or essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals are excluded from patent protection, but extends such protection to microorganisms and non-biological and microbiological processes.

RA 8293 or the IPR Code of the Philippines
Biosafety Guidelines
Section 22.4 of the IPR Code
RA 3601

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Created the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in 1963 which is responsible for the implementation of the irrigation integrated program of the government and the attainment of the “Irrigation Age’

EO 430
House Bill No. 01095
RA 3601
National Land Use Act

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Amended RA 3601 to broaden its power to include the responsibility of constructing, improving, rehabilitating and administering all national irrigation systems in the Philippines including all communal pump irrigation projects; increase its capitalization and grant certain flexibilities to enhance its operation as a corporate entity.

PD 114
House Bill No. 01095
PD 552(1974) and PD 1702(1980)
PD 218

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Passed in 1998, it provides for the adoption of a socialized irrigation fee, communal irrigation systems (CIS) amortization rates and other urgent interim measures to caution the effects of El Nino and the Asian Currency Crisis in the agricultural sectors, particularly to benefit irrigation farmer-beneficiaries.

House Bill No. 01095
PD 218
AO No. 17
Pd 114

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Provides for the rehabilitation improvement of all irrigation facilities throughout the country amending for the purpose Republic Act No 6978 entitled an Act to promote rural development by providing for an accelerated program within a ten-year period for construction of irrigation projects”.

PD 1144
National Land Use Act
House Bill No. 01095
PD 218

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Provide for the physical distribution for only tenanted rice and corn lands under a system of share-crop or lease-tenancy, whether classified as landed estate or not.

PD 1144
National Land Use Act
PD 27 or Land Reform Code
RA 6657 or CARL

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Provides for the physical redistribution of all privately-owned, agricultural lands and those under the public domain, which are suitable to agriculture regardless of tenurial arrangement and commodity product. The beneficiaries of the program include farm workers and farmers covering all agricultural commodities.

National Land Use Act
PD 218
RA 6657 or CARL
PD 1144

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Provides the overall framework for the rational allocation, disposition, sustainable utilization and management of land resources for a variety of ecological and economic uses, and to prevent premature conversion of agricultural lands.

PD 1144
PD 218 RA 6657 or CARL
National Land Use Act
RA 7607

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Provides for the imposition of land conversion tax, which aims to discourage unregulated and uneconomic conversion of agricultural lands into other uses and serves as a fiscal measure in support of the National Land Use Act.

RA 6657 or CARL
PD 218
Consolidation of HB Nos. 601 and 1374
National Land Use Act

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Involves the adoption of national policy and guidelines that will address the concerns of one of the most marginalized sectors of society.

PD 218
National Land Use Act
Magna Carta for Small Farmers or RA 7607
RA 6657

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An act prescribing urgent related measures to modernized the agriculture and fisheries sectors of the country in order to enhance their profitability and prepare the said sectors for the challenges of globalization through an adequate, focused and rational delivery of necessary support services, appropriating funs therefore and for the other purpose.

RA 7607
RA 7900
RA 8435 or AFMA of 1997
RA 6657

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Created the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) on May 30, 1977 as a technically oriented agency mandated to regulate and ensure safety in the manufacture, formulation, importation, distribution, storage, sale, transport, use and disposal of pesticides and fertilizers to ensure their adequate supply among crop growers and other end-users to support the food security program of the country as well as to develop both the fertilizer and pesticide industries.

PD 552
PD 218
PD 1144
PD 1702

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Stipulates that all pesticides intended for commercial use in the Philippines shall be registered with the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority. Separate registration shall be required for each active ingredient, brand and formulation of pesticide.

RA 8178
FPA Board Resolution No. 1
Sec. 9 PD 1144; Article II, Sec. 1, FPA Rules and Regulations No.1, s-1977
PD 1144

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Stipulates that foreign suppliers of pesticides or companies registered under the SEC as regional liaison offices are not allowed to register pesticide products. In practice, the applicant of registrant shall be the distributor or the local subsidiary of a foreign-based pesticide company.

PD 1144
RA 8178
PD 218
PD 1702

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Describe the basic requirements for a pesticide label including the prescribed Statements, language, FPA control number, precautionary measures and others.

FPA Board Resolution No. 1
Pesticide Circular # 4, s-1989
Art V, FPA Rules and Regulations No. 1, Series of 1977, Sections 1-4, 6 & 8
Pesticide Circular # 5, s. 1988

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Banned 24 pesticides products and ordered 20 products for restricted or institutional use only

Yes
Pesticide Circular No. 11
PD 218
Pesticide Circular # 4, s-1989
Art V, FPA Rules and Regulations No. 1, Series of 1977, Sections 1-4, 6 & 8

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Issued in September 1993, banned and restricted five chemicals: organotin compounds, azymphos ethyl, methyl parathion, endosulfan and monocrotophos. . In this Board Resolution, the FPA launched the National Retrieval Drive under which a stock inventory of all banned and restricted pesticides is conducted. There were already 648 “Stop sale”, “Stop move”, “Stop use” orders issued to all pesticide handlers who were found violating this order.

Pesticide Circular No. 11
PD 1144
FPA Board Resolution # 1
FPA Rules and Regulations No.1

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Spells out the national policy for a sound, efficient and self- sufficient energy development programs, which promotes of indigenous and non-conventional sources.

Republic Act 720
National Land Use Act
Non- conventional Energy Bill
Senate Bill No. 1519

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Seek authority for DA to formalize intergovernmental transfer between DA and LGU in implementing decentralized agricultural development programs.

FPA Board Resolution # 1
FPA Rules and Regulations No.1
Decentralization of Agricultural Development Programs
National Land Use Act

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An agreement on tariffs and the rules governing the conduct of international trade. The GATT Uruguay Agreement on Agriculture features five main areas of commitment: 1) the conversion of all quantitative restrictions imposed on agricultural products into tariffs; 2) reduction of tariff on agricultural products; 3) reduction of domestic subsidies; 4) reduction of exports subsidies; and 5) harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary measures.

RA 8178
RA 720
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
RA 337

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Seek to convert trade protection for rice in the form of quantitative restrictions (QRs) to ordinary customs duties by 2005

Senate Bill No. 1519
National Land Use Act
Agricultural Tariffication Act (RA 8178)
PD 1144

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Seek to amend section 79 of the General Banking Act (RA 337) by extending the grace period for the amortization of loans to beyond three years to increase the availability of financing long gestating and high-value crops and to promote their production.

RA 720
RA 8178
Senate Bill 1519 and House Bill 6814
National Land Use Act

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Otherwise known as Rural Bank Act

Senate Bill No. 1519
RA 337
House Bill No. 684
House Bill 601

Agricultural Policies – Agriculturist Board Exam Reviewer

Intends to encourage farmers to shift from low value, marginal crops like coconut and corn to profitable crops like asparagus, mangoes, cutflowers etc. in order to earn much higher levels of income.

Guidelines which involve works related to genetic engineering activities, activities required for the importation, introduction, field release and breeding of organisms that maybe potentially harmful to people and the environment.

Basically the consolidation and update of the existing laws on IPR governs the protection of the intellectual creation in the country.

Created the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in 1963 which is responsible for the implementation of the irrigation integrated program of the government and the attainment of the “Irrigation Age’

Provides for the rehabilitation improvement of all irrigation facilities throughout the country amending for the purpose Republic Act No 6978 entitled an Act to promote rural development by providing for an accelerated program within a ten-year period for construction of irrigation projects”.

Provide for the physical distribution for only tenanted rice and corn lands under a system of share-crop or lease-tenancy, whether classified as landed estate or not.

Provides the overall framework for the rational allocation, disposition, sustainable utilization and management of land resources for a variety of ecological and economic uses, and to prevent premature conversion of agricultural lands.

Provides for the imposition of land conversion tax, which aims to discourage unregulated and uneconomic conversion of agricultural lands into other uses and serves as a fiscal measure in support of the National Land Use Act.

Involves the adoption of national policy and guidelines that will address the concerns of one of the most marginalized sectors of society.

Stipulates that all pesticides intended for commercial use in the Philippines shall be registered with the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority. Separate registration shall be required for each active ingredient, brand and formulation of pesticide.

Stipulates that foreign suppliers of pesticides or companies registered under the SEC as regional liaison offices are not allowed to register pesticide products. In practice, the applicant of registrant shall be the distributor or the local subsidiary of a foreign-based pesticide company.

Describe the basic requirements for a pesticide label including the prescribed Statements, language, FPA control number, precautionary measures and others.

Banned 24 pesticides products and ordered 20 products for restricted or institutional use only

Spells out the national policy for a sound, efficient and self- sufficient energy development programs, which promotes of indigenous and non-conventional sources.

Seek authority for DA to formalize intergovernmental transfer between DA and LGU in implementing decentralized agricultural development programs.

Seek to convert trade protection for rice in the form of quantitative restrictions (QRs) to ordinary customs duties by 2005

Seek to amend section 79 of the General Banking Act (RA 337) by extending the grace period for the amortization of loans to beyond three years to increase the availability of financing long gestating and high-value crops and to promote their production.

Otherwise known as Rural Bank Act

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Agricultural Policies – Agriculturist Board Exam Reviewer

Intends to encourage farmers to shift from low value, marginal crops like coconut and corn to profitable crops like asparagus, mangoes, cutflowers etc. in order to earn much higher levels of income.

Guidelines which involve works related to genetic engineering activities, activities required for the importation, introduction, field release and breeding of organisms that maybe potentially harmful to people and the environment.

Basically the consolidation and update of the existing laws on IPR governs the protection of the intellectual creation in the country.

Created the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in 1963 which is responsible for the implementation of the irrigation integrated program of the government and the attainment of the “Irrigation Age’

Provides for the rehabilitation improvement of all irrigation facilities throughout the country amending for the purpose Republic Act No 6978 entitled an Act to promote rural development by providing for an accelerated program within a ten-year period for construction of irrigation projects”.

Provide for the physical distribution for only tenanted rice and corn lands under a system of share-crop or lease-tenancy, whether classified as landed estate or not.

Provides the overall framework for the rational allocation, disposition, sustainable utilization and management of land resources for a variety of ecological and economic uses, and to prevent premature conversion of agricultural lands.

Provides for the imposition of land conversion tax, which aims to discourage unregulated and uneconomic conversion of agricultural lands into other uses and serves as a fiscal measure in support of the National Land Use Act.

Involves the adoption of national policy and guidelines that will address the concerns of one of the most marginalized sectors of society.

Stipulates that all pesticides intended for commercial use in the Philippines shall be registered with the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority. Separate registration shall be required for each active ingredient, brand and formulation of pesticide.

Stipulates that foreign suppliers of pesticides or companies registered under the SEC as regional liaison offices are not allowed to register pesticide products. In practice, the applicant of registrant shall be the distributor or the local subsidiary of a foreign-based pesticide company.

Describe the basic requirements for a pesticide label including the prescribed Statements, language, FPA control number, precautionary measures and others.

Banned 24 pesticides products and ordered 20 products for restricted or institutional use only

Spells out the national policy for a sound, efficient and self- sufficient energy development programs, which promotes of indigenous and non-conventional sources.

Seek authority for DA to formalize intergovernmental transfer between DA and LGU in implementing decentralized agricultural development programs.

Seek to convert trade protection for rice in the form of quantitative restrictions (QRs) to ordinary customs duties by 2005

Seek to amend section 79 of the General Banking Act (RA 337) by extending the grace period for the amortization of loans to beyond three years to increase the availability of financing long gestating and high-value crops and to promote their production.

Otherwise known as Rural Bank Act

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