Posted on April 13, 2015 10:51:00 PM Benchmarking the farm productivity of provinces 0 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy FARM PRODUCTIVITY is a major factor of countryside development. High productivity, by and large, leads to high incomes and, in turn, investments. This article compares the farm productivity of the country’s 80 provinces. The yields
Posted on April 06, 2015 11:13:00 PM Poverty and farm productivity: ASEAN scorecard 0 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy The Philippine poverty incidence has risen by 1.2 percentage points to 25.8% in the first half of 2014, from 24.6% in 2013. This was attributed to high food prices, especially rice. About 25.8 million poor
Posted on March 23, 2015 11:14:00 PM Contract farming: Boon or bane? 1 0 Google +0 0 MAP Insights Rolando D. Ty The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines contract farming as “agricultural production carried out according to an agreement between a buyer and farmers, which establishes conditions for the production and marketing of a farm product or
MAPPING THE FUTURE Benchmarking Australia-Asean food, agriculture trade By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 03:49 AM March 02, 2015 Australia is well known as an efficient agricultural producer. It is strong in cattle, beef, dairy, sugar, wheat, fruits and wine. The growing Asean middle class augurs well for Australian food exporters.
Posted on March 09, 2015 09:40:00 PM BASTIONS OF AGRIBUSINESS 2: LUZON 1 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P Insights Rolando T. Dy THIS IS A follow-up to an article published on Dec. 16, 2014, with the same title that focused on the Visayas and Mindanao. This time, the focus is on Luzon. Luzon is the country’s largest island.
MAPPING THE FUTURE US-Asean agri-food trade: Who is faring better? By: Rolando T. Dy – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:01 AM January 05, 2015 The United States is one of the largest trade partners of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In agri-food products, the total two-way trade in 2013 was $29 billion: $10.2
Posted on January 05, 2015 09:36:00 PM Rule of law and poverty reduction 1 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P Insights Rolando T. Dy “Poverty can be reduced in societies which are governed by the rule of law,” said Samuel Gregg of Acton Institute, writing for Public Discourse and re-published by MercatorNet. The US-based Acton Institute is a think
Posted on November 17, 2014 09:56:00 PM The economic sub-regions in our backyard: What do we know? 2 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy THE BRUNEI Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) and Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) held their second joint conference in Davao City on October 23-26. The sub-regions belong to the ASEAN. The
Posted on October 27, 2014 09:42:00 PM Momentum and inertia in rural development 0 0 Google +0 0 M.A.P. Insights Rolando Dy IN MY TOUGH physics class at the University of the Philippines in Diliman many moons ago, I learned that the momentum of an object depends on how heavy the object is
Posted on October 13, 2014 09:04:00 PM Farmers need to look far into the horizon 0 0 Google +0 1 M.A.P. Insights Rolando T. Dy PRICE VOLATILITY is a common phenomenon among traded commodities. Prices are market signals of supply and demand. Supply is affected by production and stock levels. Production is influenced by