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Fertilizer & Corn Farming… IFA Crossroads, Asia Pacific 2012

October 29-31, 2012, Manila, Philippines

By: Engr. Roger V. Navarro

President, Phil Maize

Philippine Corn and Agriculture

• 18% of Gross Domestic Product is Agriculture.

• Less than 5% is shared for Agriculture Financing.

• Corn Industry contributes 6.16% or Php 76 billion and is number 8 of the 10 Outstanding National Commodity.

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Corn Production Performance, 2000-2011

Source: BAS

AAGR

Corn Area Harvested, 2000 - 2011

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0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

18-46-00DAP

16-20-00MAP

46-00-00Urea

00-00-60MOP

14-14-14Comp

High

Medium

Fertilizer Requirement for Corn Farming

Approximately 55 million Bags for High, 50 million Bags for Medium

Fertilizer Usage combined per year.

Challenges in Corn Farming

•Increasing Demand, Land Use, Low

Fertility, Water, Climate change

• Adulteration of Fertilizers, Fertilizer

mixed with Salt

• Illegal copying, mislabeling of fertilizer

brand

•Smuggling of Low Quality Fertilizer

•Lack of Police Power & Support from

DA-FPA

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Low Quality Fertilizer

• It will destroy the soil

• It will destroy the crop

• It will unnecessarily make farmer loss money

• It will destroy overall Food Supply

Recommendation

• Creation of Special Task Force

• Life imprisonment for Illegal Fertilizer Dealers

• Direct Compensation to the farmers

• Blacklist & Prohibit from doing same business