DETERMINING THE PRODUCTIVITY AND POVERTY LEVEL OF QUEEN PINEAPPLE FARMERS IN CAMARINES NORTE, PHILIPPINES

Year 2024, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 153 - 168, 31.12.2024

Maria Christina F. Campita Hiromi Tokuda , Hector Sales

Abstract

Purpose- Queen pineapple production is a small-scale farming acitivity in Camarines Norte Philippines. Despite its production potential, pineapple farmers report of low productivity as the price of input increases and the net income decreases. This paper compares the productivity level relative to the poverty threshold of Queen pineapple farmers who use traditional and innovative production practices.
Methodology- Data was gathered from January to March 2022 in Camarines Norte, where Queen pineapple production is highly concentrated. A total of 96 farmers were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Productivity was measured based on the cost and revenue analysis of traditional practices, the use of innovative production, and the input and output ratio in terms of land labor and capital.
Findings- Results revealed that innovative production increased land, labor, and capital productivity. The poverty threshold is influenced by educational status, household size, and pineapple cultivation area. Thus, 56 percent of the farmers live with less than the basic food requirements, 17 percent live below the poverty threshold, and only 27 percent live above the poverty threshold.
Conclusion- To earn more than the poverty threshold the decision point may be based on area planted or based on farming system. The former suggest that a Queen pineapple farmer must utilize 1.6 hectares (ha) using traditional practices but only 0.68 ha using innovative production practices while the latter suggest that based on farming system, expanding production areas through mixed or integrated cropping or adopting production innovations for single cropping is recommended.

Keywords

Traditional practices, cost of production, farming system.

References

• Adekoya, O.A., (2014). Analysis of farm households poverty status in Ogun States, Nigeria. Asian Economic and Financial Review, 4(3), 325–340.
• Balito, L.P., (2010). Philippine Pineapple Industry. Seventh International Pineapple Symposium, 902, 53–62.
• Balogun, O, S.A. Adewuyi, and O.R. Disu., (2018). Profitability and technical efficiency of pineapple production in Ogun State, Nigeria. International Journal of Fruit Science, 18(1), 1–9.
• Bartholomew, D. P., Paull, R.E, and Rohrbach, K.G. eds., (2003). The Pineapple: Botany, Production and Uses. Honolulu, USA: CABI Publishing and University of Hawaii. eISBN: 978-1-78639-331-9.
• Campita, M.C., (2021). A Compendium on Queen Pineapple Technology Industry and Technology Milestones. Pili, Camarines Sur: Department of Agriculture, Regional Field Office 5. ISBN 978-621-95648-2-3.
• CGIAR (Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers)., (2002). Multiple cropping could help feed the world. https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/multiple-cropping-could-help-feed-the-world/
• Dimas, B., Lyne, M., and Bailey, A., (2022). Identifying and addressing institutional problems constraining the financial performance of rice cooperatives in the Philippines. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 12(3), 148–156.
• Esiobu, B.S. and Onubuogo G.C., (2014). Socioeconomic analysis of frozen fish marketing in owerri municipal council area, Imo State Nigeria: an economic model approach. Scholarly Journal of Agricultural Science, 3(7), 186–199.
• Hossain, M.F., (2016). World pineapple production: an overview. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 16(4), 11444–11456.
• IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)., (2022). Philippines. https://www.ifad.org/en/web/operations/w/country/philippines
• Lubis, R., Daryanto, A., Tambunan, M. and Purwati, H., (2014). Technical, allocative, and economic efficiency of pineapple production in West Java Province, Indonesia: A DEA Approach. IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, 7(6), 18–23.
• Mapa, CDS., (2022). The proportion of poor Filipinos. Philippine Statistics Authority.
• https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/poverty/node/167972
• Philippine National Standard., (2004). Fresh Fruit Pineapple Specification. PNS/BAFPS 09 ICS 65.020.20. http://spsissuances.da.gov.ph/attachments/article/793/PNS-BAFPS%2009-2004.pdf
• Reinhardt, A., and Rodriguez, L.C.V., (2009). Industrial processing of pineapple – trends and perspective. Acta Horticulturae, 822, 323–328.
• Ryschawy, J, Moraine, M., Péquignot, M. and Martin, G., (2019). Trade-offs among individual and collective performances related to crop–livestock integration among farms: a case study in Southwestern France. Organic Agriculture, 9, 399–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13165-018-0237-7
• Stark, Fabien, Eliel González-García, Livia Navegantes, Taymer Miranda, René Poccard-Chapuis, Harry Archimède, and Charles-Henri Moulin. (2018). Crop-livestock integration determines the agroecological performance of mixed farming systems in Latino-Caribbean Farms. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 38, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-017-0479-x
• Statista., (2021). The Philippines – Statistics and Facts. https://www.statista.com/topics/3914/the-philippines/#topicOverview
• Tewodros M., Mesfin, S., Getachew, W., Ashenafi, A., and Neim, S., (2018). effect of inorganic n and p fertilizers on fruit yield and yield components of pineapple (Annanas comosus Merr L. Var. Smooth Cayanne) at Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia. Agrotechnology, 7, 178. http://doi.org/10.4172/2168- 9881.1000178
• Thomas, G.V., Krishnakumar, V., Dhanapal, R., and Reddy, D.V.S., (2018). Agro-management Practices for Sustainable Coconut Production. In The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera L.) Research and Development Perspectives (pp. 227–322) edited by K.U.K. Nampoothiri, V. Krishnakumar, P.K. Thampan, and M. Achuthan Nair. Singapore: Springer, 2019.
• Uematsu, H., and Mishra, A., (2010). Can Education Be a Barrier to Technology Adoption? Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2010 AAEA, CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 25–27, 2010.
• UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)., (2020). Annual Report 2020. UNIDO.
• Verma, O.P., Roychowdhury, S., Rautaray, S.K., Raychaudhuri M., Antony, E., Ambast, S.K., and Brahmanand P.S., (2020). Fitting Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) with Rainfed Rice in the Cropping Sequence in Eastern India. National Academy Science Letters, 43, 121–124.
• Weir, S., (1999). The Effects of Education on Farmer Productivity in Rural Ethiopia. Oxford, UK: Center for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.