A Review on the Integrated Rice-Based Cropping Systems Practices in the Philippines

Abstract

In agriculture, crop production is the main activity. The income obtained from crops may hardly be sufficient to sustain the farm family throughout the year most especially due to the varying climatic conditions, pest infestations and disease infections. Thus, assured regular cash flow is possible when the crop is combined with other enterprises or integrating other crops. However, judicious combination of enterprises is also an important consideration and keeping in view of the environmental conditions in a locality to achieve greater dividends among the produce crops. At the same time, it will also promote effective recycling of residues/wastes. Some of the rice-based cropping system applied in the country includes rice + vegetable production system, rice + off-season vegetable production system, rice + fish production system, rice + duck integration system, rice-rice cropping pattern, rice-upland crops cropping pattern, irrigated lowland farming systems and sustainable agroforest land technology. Moreover, Integrated Farming Systems provided a steady and stable income to the farmers. Thus, amelioration of the system’s productivity and achieve agro-ecological equilibrium through the reduction in the build-up of pests and diseases, through natural cropping system management. Likewise, multiple cropping systems productivity is higher in terms of harvestable products per unit area per unit time than those of sole cropping systems. Thus, this practice provided higher net income by the Filipino farmers.

Keywords

• Integrated farming systems
• rice based cropping
• yield and income

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