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Promoting Organic Agriculture
Promoting Organic Agriculture
2. Altertrade
❑ Altertrades’ vision is to be professional, innovative and
socially responsible business organization in
partnership with self-reliant and self determining
communities responding to the demands of costumers
in the Philippines and the world for quality produce
from sustainable agriculture.
❑ This organization facilitates, develops and expands a
trading system to increase self-reliance and
independence of marginalized organized producers
and to provide consumers with competitive quality
products.
II. NGO initiatives
2. Altertrade
Altertrade commits to the following:
❑ Promote sustainable agriculture and organic farming.
❑ Serve as a reliable and stable market and processor
of people’s product.
❑Produce and supply competitively priced, quality
organic fertilizer and other farm inputs.
II. NGO initiatives
2. Davao City
❑The city of Davao was the first local government unit in
the country to enact an organic agriculture ordinance
with the passage of Ordinance 0384-10 in 2010.
❑ The city leads in promoting organic agriculture.
❑ The city is in the process of identifying organic zones,
weekend markets for organic products of the market
and estabklishing a PGS.
III. LGU initiatives
3. Negros Island
❑ Declared as the first Organic Island in the Country as
pushed by the two Governors of Negros Oriental and
Occidental in partnership with NISARD, a “not for profit
and no stock” foundation registered in the Philippines.
❑ NISARD believes that sustainable, organic agriculture
and rural development is a mean to improve local
conditions.
III. LGU initiatives
3. Negros Island
Key success factors and lessons learned by NISARD:
1. Establish policies supporting organic agriculture
2. Establish organic standards and protocols aligned
with national and international (IFOAM) standards
3. Public and private partnership
4. Provision of direct linkages
5. Clustering of farmers in groups
6. “Localized” economic activities
7. Flexible acceptance of various organic technologies
III. LGU initiatives
4. Quezon Province
❑ In May 2011, “Organic Market sa Perez Park” started
located at the Capitol Compound , Lucena City.
❑ To ensure the quality of organic products being sold at
Perez Park, the UP Los Banos DA-BAR Organic
Vegetable Project proposed the idea of setting up a
PGS.
❑ The Provincial Agriculturist has allocated funds for the
establishment and piloting of the Quezon PGS.
III. LGU initiatives
5. Samal, Bataan
❑ Members of the Municipal Council passed several
resolution in support of organic farming. These include
the following:
1. Declaring the municipality an organic zone
2. One day a week as organic farming, and
3. A portion of the Samal public market designated as a
wholesale section for organic products.
IV. Academe initiatives
1. University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB)
❑ As early as 2006, the Agricultural System Cluster (ASC),
UPLB initiated research to document the use of pesticide by
vegetable farmers in Laguna.
❑ The result of these research activities underlined the critical
need to introduce organic agriculture so that farmers can be
weaned from their heavy dependence on pesticide and
synthetic fertilizers in their farming operation.
❑ The ASC created an organic agriculture program for
research, development and extension to support the
government, peoples organizations, non-government
organizations, private sector and LGUs towards science
based and people-oriented sustainable organic agriculture
IV. Academe initiatives