Agricultural Mechanization Strategy

Municipality of CAPAS
Brief Profile of the Province of Tarlac
• Its capital is Tarlac City. Tarlac borders
Pampanga to the south, Nueva Ecija to the
east, Pangasinan to the north, and Zambales to
the west. It is a part of Central Luzon, which is
composed of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva
Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales.
Capital: Tarlac City
Land Area: 2,736.6 km²
Population: 1,273,240 (2010)
Cities: Tarlac
Municipalities: 18
Barangays: 511
Districts: 1st to 3rd districts of Tarlac
Languages: Kapampangan, Tagalog, Ilocano,
Pangasinan, English
Province of Tarlac

Land
Dominantly an agricultural economy,
Tarlac boasts of a total land area of
305, 345 hectares, comprising
16.75% of the total land area of
Region III and 1.0% the
nation’s land area.
Province of Tarlac
Agriculture

With a 305,345 hectares of land in the

province, 54.37% of these lands are
utilized for agricultural activity. 166,023
hectares are allocated for rice paddies,
orchards, ponds, lakes, swamps and other
bodies of water and cultivated lands.
Agricultural crops and fisheries
are allocated with 141,252
hectares of land.
Municipality of Capas
Capas is a 1st Class Municipality and the
tourism center of the province of Tarlac,
Central Luzon region. With a population
of more than 140,000 and a land area of
about 44,000 hectares, the biggest
among the municipalities in the province
of Tarlac.
Agricultural Profile of Municipality of Capas
• CAPAS GIS Map. Majority of the area is
allocated to rice field and woodland area.

Source: Provincial Commodity Investment Plan (PCIP) – Province of Tarlac

Agricultural Profile of Municipality of Capas
Majority of the farmer from Capas still prefer rice
to plant as shown in figure 2.

Figure 2: Different Agricultural Crops in

Municipality
8,000.00

7,000.00 6,778.00

6,000.00

5,000.00

4,000.00

3,000.00

2,000.00

1,000.00
149 15 150 125
0.00
Rice Yellow Corn White Corn Yam Sweet Potato

Source: Municipal Agriculture Office of Capas

Agricultural Profile of Municipality of Capas
77% of farmer plant 2 to 3 times a year for rice
farming and only minority of farmer doesn’t have
good source of irrigation.
Rainfed
23%

Irrigated
77%

Figure 1: Type of Water Source for Rice Farming in Municipality of Capas

Agricultural Profile of Municipality of Capas
CAPAS Agricultural Profile
Rice Corn HVCC
Baranggay Irrigated Rainfed Yellow White Gabi Sweet
Potato
Aranguren 537.00 285.00 20.00 - - 5.00
Bueno 86.00 47.00 100.00 5.00 50.00 20.00
Cubcub 81.00 22.50 - - -
Cut cut1 213.00 45.00 - - -
Cutcut2 162.50 89.50 - - -
Doleres 195.50 33.00 5.00 - -
Estrada 300.00 2.00 - -
Lawy 923.00 288.00 5.00 - -
Manga 103.00 27.00 2.00 - -
Manlapig 210.00 123.50 - - -
Maruglo 35.50 11.50 - - 20.00
O'Donnell 661.50 213.50 10.00 5.00 50.00 50.00
Sta./Juliana 98.00 46.00 - - 30.00 50.00
Sta. Lucia 708.00 158.00 - - - -
Sta. Rita 236.50 16.00 5.00 - - -
Sto. Domingo 1 3.00 - - - - -
Sto. Domingo2 174.50 21.50 - - - -
Sto. Rosario 224.00 56.00 - 5.00 - -
Talaga 162.00 28.00 - - - -
Cristo Rey 102.00 51.00 - - - -
5,216.00 1,562.00 149.00 15.00 150.00 125.00

Source: Municipal Agriculture Office of Capas

Agricultural Field Land Area

Table 3. Agricultural Field Area from Different Municipalities of the Tarlac

Province

Rank Municipalities Area(ha) Percentag

e
1 Moncada 2135 25.14%
2 Paniqui 1413 16.64%
3 Victoria 704 8.29%
4 Gerona 683 8.04%
5 Capas 571 6.72%
6 Pura 509 5.99%
7 Lapaz 414 4.87%
8 Sta. Ignacia 371 4.37%
9 Concepcion 348 4.10%
10 Ramos 333 3.92%

Source: Provincial Commodity Investment Plan (PCIP) – Province of Tarlac

Legumes Production

Table 4. Legumes Production from Different Municipality of Tarlac

Province

Rank Municipalities Area (ha) Percentage

1 Lapaz 337 27.40%
2 Sta. Ignacia 148 12.03%
3 Ramos 102 8.29%
4 Pura 100 8.13%
5 Mayantoc 80 6.50%
6 Tarlac City 71 5.77%
7 Moncada 65 5.28%
8 Concepcion 56 4.55%
9 Bamban 53 4.31%
10 San Jose 48 3.90%
13 Capas 27 2.20%

Source: Provincial Commodity Investment Plan (PCIP) – Province of Tarlac

Fruits and Vegetables
Production

Table 5. Fruits and Vegetables Production from Different

Municipality of Tarlac Province

Rank Municipalities Area (ha) Percentage

1 Victoria 653 30.744%

2 Moncada 220 10.358%
3 Sta. Ignacia 176 8.286%
4 Concepcion 157 7.392%
5 Gerona 143 6.733%
6 Tarlac City 117 5.508%
7 Bamban 112 5.273%
8 Ramos 111 5.226%
9 Paniqui 94 4.426%
10 Camiling 81 3.814%
16 Capas 20 0.942%
Source: Provincial Commodity Investment Plan (PCIP) – Province of Tarlac
Root Crops Production

Table 6. Root Crops Production from Different Municipality of

Tarlac Province

Rank Municipalities Area(ha) Percentage

1 Moncada 1850 36.00%
2 Paniqui 1280 24.91%
3 Gerona 540 10.51%
4 Capas 524 10.20%
5 Pura 374 7.28%
6 Concepcion 135 2.63%
7 Ramos 120 2.34%
8 San Jose 70 1.36%
9 Bamban 60 1.17%
10 Tarlac City 50 0.97%

Source: Provincial Commodity Investment Plan (PCIP) – Province of Tarlac

Machineries/Postharvest Facilities of the
Municipality of Capas

Particulars Units
MPDP 37
Mechanical Dryer(flatbed) 4
Thresher 118
Rice Mill 30
Hand tractor 1
Four-wheel Tractor 2
Combine Harvester 2
Carabao 3,814

Source: Municipal Agriculture Office of Capas

Observation:
• The data that were given is not updated. It would be
helpful to the researcher to have a data to help if more
recent. And would be computer based program
application that can access like the Bureau of Statistics
but this time per barangay.
• There were no data for private sector mechanization.
Only the government given machine was recorded. And
there are only 2 organized cooperative in the
municipality. It would be helpful if more farmer form
organization in this way the government will easily
gathered them and give them assistance.
• The municipality of Capas launch a trading post for the
fruits and vegetable from different provinces. This is to
have a venue for buy and sell at lower costs. However,
the trade post activity was not maintain and it was back
to public market.
Recommendation/Strategies
• The farmer of municipalities from Capas average
hectares is about 2.57ha and the mechanization level
is 0.59 hp/ha this is small in compare to National level
at 1.68 hp/ha(AMDA,1997).

• Nowadays, the cost of the crops production

especially in rice alone, in the Philippines is relatively
high compare to neighbor country. Filipino farmers
spend around P11 to produce one kilogram of rice
while their Thai and Vietnamese counterparts spend
the equivalent of P8.40 and P5.60, respectively,
according to the Philippines' Department of
Agriculture (DA). According to Department of
Agriculture Secretary Alcala, this is because of high
labor costs.
Recommendation/Strategies
• Another factor is the irrigation costs. Other
municipalities who are near in the dams or
water reservoir. Water is costs cheaper, most of
the Capas farmer use diesel engine fuel pump
to supply the water.

• With these matter, having small area per farm

in not an advantage. Hence, it would be
recommended to form a cooperative that have
at least 50 or 100 members in the same area.
Then, the area would range to 128.5 ha to 257
ha. In these manner, organized farmer can
have loan from government, share machines,
and developed communal irrigation.
Agricultural Machineries Strategies
At an average of 2.57ha per farmer, Mechanization to
lower the cost of rice production is difficult. In order to achieve this,
more land is require. Hence, forming a group of farmer is
recommended. We all know that an organized group attacked
support both private and government.
Table 8 shows the recommended machines and equipment to
mechanize a 128.5 ha with a 50 farmers in rice farming.
 Agricultural Machineries Strategies
With an initial investment of Php 4,300,000.00 from land preparation
to planting to sprayer to harvesting. The organized
farmer/cooperative can acquire loan from bank and/or to subsidies
by the government.
Fig. 4. Gantt Chart for Rice Farming at 2 cropping season

Table 8. Number of days in Rice Farming

Operations Days
Land preparation 39
Planting 23
Growth stage 107
Post Harvest 16
Total Number of days 185
2
Crop Number
cropping
Land Preparation
Land Preparation
Planting and Harvesting
Planting and Harvesting
Suggestions:

• Think always for what are beneficial for the

farmers (in all the “people”)
• Intensify collaboration with private sector
• Remove hiring favouritism (politics related)
• Hired fitted employee for the job
• Distribute employees correctly
• Balance selection of farmer-co-operator
(technology grantee)
• Improve the trading system.
Thank you….- Melissa