STRATEGIC PLANNING 2017-2019

STRATEGIC KRAS MEASURES INITIATIVES

OBJECTIVE
1. Improve quality  Adequate supply of • Disease-free planting materials of
and availability disease-free and recommended abaca varieties will be made
of planting high yielding abaca available to farmers.
material planting materials • Tissue culture laboratories of national
government (PhilFIDA) and private
 Introduction of new companies will be tapped for the supply of
improved abaca abaca plantlets.
varieties • Abaca planting materials derived from the
conventional method of propagation such as
seedpieces and suckers will be sourced from
seedbanks of PhilFIDA and nurseries of LGUs
and farmers associations.
• Support facilities like diagnostic laboratories
and immunology laboratory and be operated
to assist in testing planting materials for
freeness of viruses.
• New abaca varieties possessing resistance to
virus diseases shall be pursued through
conventional breeding and modern
biotechnology.
• On-going research Projects of UPLB-IPB and
VSU on multi-locational trial of newly
developed disease-resistant abaca hybrids
will be continued and so with the on-going
project of PhilFIDA on the development of
transgenic abaca possessing resistance to
bunchy-top disease.
• Other research studies related to molecular
biology and biotechnology shall be
conducted.
• Establishment and upgrading of R&D
laboratories and facilities coupled with the
development of human capital will be
undertaken to strengthen R&D capability.
2. To increase • Available production • Dynamic research for the generation and
fiber technologies for dissemination of abaca production
production improved fiber yield, technologies that are climate-smart and
higher farm resilient with the end view of improving fiber
productivity and yield
increased farm • Enhancing farm productivity and increasing
income farm income shall be pursued especially in
• Eradication of the areas of abaca-based sloping agriculture,
disease infected farming systems, pest & disease
areas management, bio-control agents, organic
• New areas for abaca fertilizer application as well as indigenous
production knowledge, among others.
• Trainings • Abaca Disease Management Project
• Information, • To encourage farmers to expand and/or
Education and replant missing hills of their low populated
Communication old abaca plantations and also the disease-
• On Fiber Quality freed farms
Competitiveness • The adoption of what is latest in production
technologies in improving quantity and
quality of fiber produce.
• Maintained consistency of fiber quality that
makes our product competitive.
3. To develop and  Establishment of • To construct and establish Common Service
 improve Fiber Stripping Facilty to increase fiber production, the plan
processing and Center & Abaca shall create many units of abaca stripping
utilization of Drying Shed as center and drying shed
fibers Common Service • Stripping knives and improved handstripping
Facilities (CSF) and devices will be distributed to farmer-
distribution of beneficiaries.
stripping knives and • Improvement of existing fiber extraction
PhilFIDA designed machines shall be undertaken.
Improved • Trainings of farmers on pre-classification,
Handstripping safe use and maintenance of fiber extraction
Devices machines
 Researches on fiber
processing/extractio
n
 Conduct of training
and trainers
4. To enhance  Implementation of • License issuances to traders, exporters,
fiber quality Republic Act 9242 or processors and classifiers to ensure that all
competitivenes the Philippine fibers coming the establishments are
s Tropical Fabrics properly classified, graded, baled, inspected
 Provision of and certified as to established government
infrastructure prescribed standards.
facilities and • Strict monitoring of different grading and
automated baling establishments (GBEs), trader’s
machines/devices to warehouses and processor’s establishments
promote Philippine shall be done by the PhilFIDA and Regulatory
handwoven fabrics personnel.
 Conduct of R&D on • Application of the law that was
market and fiber implemented through the issuance of the
utilization. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR)
stipulating the use of Philippine Tropical
Fabrics or PTF with 5% fiber content of
abaca, banana, pineapple and 15% silk for
the uniforms of public officials and 73
employees.
• The PhilFIDA in coordination with the private
sector and local government units shall
establish of Livelihood Training and
Processing Centers in identified areas by
• Provision of automated loom weaving
machine with the view of helping the
weaving industry cope with the increasing
demand for indigenous fabrics by the
growing wear and apparel market.
• Development of different technologies to
improve marketability of fiber products and
value adding (i.e. simple machines/device
for production of knotted fibers, ethanol
production from abaca stripping waste) shall
be undertaken.
• Transfer of developed technologies and
continuous training on value adding such as
handmade paper- and scrunch- making, and
other fibercraft shall be done.
 OPERATIONAL PLANNING 2017-2019

BUDGET (P’000)
OBJECTIVES KRAs MEASURES/TARGET ACTIVITIES TIME FRAME
2017 2018 2019
Improve quality and Establishment, maintenance # of facilities established & - Investment in the 2017-2019 5,018 5,018 5,018
availability of planting and operationalization of maintained establishment and
material facilities for the production - At least 8 laboratories, 5 operationalization of
of high yielding and disease- experiment stations tissue culture laboratories,
free abaca planting maintained per year seedbank-cum-
materials - @ least 4 screen houses experiment stations,
distributed to LGUs per screen houses, nurseries,
year starting 2017 diagnostic laboratories

# of planting materials - Abaca planting material

distributed production and
distribution
# famer-beneficiaries

# of technicians trained - Training on abaca

- At least 15 technicians plantlets acclimatization
per training and 3 and nursery management
trainings per year starting
2017

# of accredited producers - Accreditation of abaca

- At least 2 per year planting materials
starting 2017 producers
Improvement of abaca # of improved abaca - Investment on abaca 2017-2019 5,276 6,428 3,128
varieties possessing varieties developed improvement R & D
resistance to virus diseases covering both
and other traits of interest conventional breeding and
modern biotechnology to
 include genebanking
molecular biology,
confined screening and
field trials of abaca;
studies on insect vectors,
pathogens as well as
bioinformatics

# of researches on abaca - Investment on

improvement conducted strengthening R & D
capability of research
institutions and agencies
by estabilishing and
upgrading laboratories
and facilities and
development of human
assets

- Investment and -
maintenance of R&D
facilities
To increase fiber production New abaca Area - No. of hectares - Support in the opening of 2017-2019 70,576 19,757 22,579
2017 – 8,822 new abaca farms
2018 – 1,764
2019 – 1,764
Restored old and new - No of hectares - Support for densification 2017-2019 169,376 112,920 34,906
disease-freed abaca farms 2017 – 21,172 of old and disease-freed
2018 – 14,115 abaca farms
2019 – 2,727
Trained PhilFIDA personnel, - No. of participants - Support to acquire 2017-2019 1,000 1,000 1,000
farmers and other trained certification for abaca on
stakeholders concerned on 2017 – 500 sustainable production
the requirements and 2018 – 500
procedures for certification 2019 – 500

To develop and improve
processing and utilization of
fibers
To enhance fiber quality
competitiveness
on sustainability of abaca
production
Capable Fiber Development - No. of PhilFIDA field - Training on Technology 2017-2019 5,000 5,000 5,000
Officers (FDO) on providing personnel trained and Technical Assistance
technical assistance to Processes for PhilFIDA
clients Field personnel
Farmers with updated - No. of farmers trained - Capability building for 2017-2019 3,150 3,300 3,375
knowledge and skills on farmers trough training on
production technologies of updated abaca production
abaca livelihood technologies
Updated and informative - No. of IEC materials - Production and 2017-2019 1,100 1,150 1,200
IEC materials produced and distributed distribution of IEC
materials
Provision of Standard - 840 units - Identification of farmers, 2017-2019 204,000 205,800 207,600
Stripping Knives/Improved beneficiaries with LGUs,
Handstripping Devices fabrication of the device
(IHSD) and distribution to farmer-
beneficiaries
Provision of fiber extraction - 75 units and other - Fabrication and extraction 2017 35,000 1,000 1,000
facilities needed for fiber facilities machines for selected
production to be fibers in collaboration
degummed, spun and with LGU and the private
woven to produce sector
Philippine Tropical Fabrics in
compliance to Republic Act
9242
Establishment of livelihood - 3 centers/year with 25 - Establishment of 2018-2019 2,650 2,650 2,650
training centers in participants/session livelihood processing and
coordination with LGUs training centers with LGUs
for organized cooperatives
/ associations
PERMIT ISSUANCE 2017-2019 2,194 1,863 3,249
Licenses (Trader-Exporters. - No. of licenses issued - Inspection
Processors, Classifiers
Permit to Transport Fibers - No. of PTFs - Inspection
(PTF)
MONITORING 2017-2019 2,415 1,996 4,195
Sites and facilities - No. of facilities inspected - Inspection of facilities
monitored and/or inspected
with reports issued
Products monitored and/or - No. of bales inspected/ - Inspection of approved
inspected with reports verified bales
issued
ENFORCEMENT 2017-2019 3,909 3,860 5,246
Enforcement and actions - No. of inspection reports - Monitoring and inspection
undertaken issued
GRAND TOTAL 510,664 371,742, 300,146