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    Fifty Shades of Grey

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    This document discusses extreme poverty in rural Philippine communities and the need for development interventions to address its root causes. It focuses on strengthening the sugarcane production sector in three identified barangays. Sugarcane dominates agricultural land use and is a major crop, but farmers face issues like low prices, limited markets, debt, lack of land ownership, capital, education, and technology. This results in continued poverty. Potential interventions discussed include providing value-added to sugarcane through support for product development, post-harvest facilities, marketing, and financing.

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    This document discusses extreme poverty in rural Philippine communities and the need for development interventions to address its root causes. It focuses on strengthening the sugarcane production sector in three identified barangays. Sugarcane dominates agricultural land use and is a major crop, but farmers face issues like low prices, limited markets, debt, lack of land ownership, capital, education, and technology. This results in continued poverty. Potential interventions discussed include providing value-added to sugarcane through support for product development, post-harvest facilities, marketing, and financing.

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    This document discusses extreme poverty in rural Philippine communities and the need for development interventions to address its root causes. It focuses on strengthening the sugarcane production sector in three identified barangays. Sugarcane dominates agricultural land use and is a major crop, but farmers face issues like low prices, limited markets, debt, lack of land ownership, capital, education, and technology. This results in continued poverty. Potential interventions discussed include providing value-added to sugarcane through support for product development, post-harvest facilities, marketing, and financing.

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    Fifty Shades of Grey

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    This document discusses extreme poverty in rural Philippine communities and the need for development interventions to address its root causes. It focuses on strengthening the sugarcane production sector in three identified barangays. Sugarcane dominates agricultural land use and is a major crop, but farmers face issues like low prices, limited markets, debt, lack of land ownership, capital, education, and technology. This results in continued poverty. Potential interventions discussed include providing value-added to sugarcane through support for product development, post-harvest facilities, marketing, and financing.

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    Introduction

    Extreme poverty is a daily scene in the lives of millions of Filipinos. This remains
    prevalent in rural areas because of few economic opportunities on agricultural-based income
    sources. Lack of access to productive resources further aggravates the problem. This
    unfavourable socio-economic environment leaves the poor marginalized. It affects not only the
    ability of rural communities to meet their daily needs but their capacity to respond to harsh
    environment.
    The call to reduce poverty necessitates development interventions that address the root
    causes of the problem of extreme poverty in communities. Enhancing the capacity of the poor
    and providing economic opportunities are critical interventions along this line. However, they
    have to be sustainable, responsive, demand-driven and participatory as envisioned by the
    CONVENIO AECID 07-C01-034 FILIPINAS PROGRAM on Strengthening the Productive
    Sectors in the Rural Areas and Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Regions of
    Bicol (V) & Caraga (XIII). This program has been actively promoting participatory community
    development towards reducing poverty nationwide.
    Barangay Profiles that provide a brief analysis of the socio economic and political
    situation of the barangays posing a picture of a farming upland communities that are living
    below the poverty threshold as characterized by the interlinked process/cycle of poor income and
    productivity due to poor health, low education, poor technology, unemployment, and giving rise
    to higher poverty incidence. Faced with these pressing problems, the greatest challenge
    recommended based from the activities conducted is in building human capacities and in
    providing opportunities for productive and viable livelihood activities while ensuring the
    sustainable use and management of the areas elemental resources.
    Given this perspective, the focus of this study is directed and concentrated on
    strengthening one of the major productive sectors of the three identified barangays (Balaba,
    Kinuartelan, Malapay) that is, the Sugarcane. Basically, this entails the development and
    improvement of the present cultural, social and economic activities of the area that could provide
    them with the maximum value-added opportunities vis-a-vis their current potentials and
    resources.
    The sugarcane production of Barangay (Insert the Barangay) is characterized by
    sugarcane plantations dominating (Research for the percentage production of the barangay
    mentioned) of the total agricultural land use and sugarcane produce obtaining (Research for the
    percentage production of the barangay mentioned) of the total production of major crops.
    Whilst (Research for the percentage production of the barangay mentioned) of the total
    agricultural land use (2nd to corn) and (Research for the percentage production of the
    barangay mentioned) of the total production of major crops (2nd to coconuts) depicts the
    sugarcane production of Barangay (Insert the Barangay). The sugarcane farming system
    adapted by Polangui communities that could be worked on as their competitive advantage over
    other sugarcane producers in the Philippines includes 100% organic farming system and yearround production. Sugarcane in the barangays mentioned is primarily processed into panocha
    or sangkaka products (molded raw sugar). This product is being promoted by the local
    government unit as the One-town One-product (OTOP) of Polangui, Albay based on the

    considerable number of the household earning a living through sangkaka production producing
    more than 1600 tons of sangkaka per year with their current capacity1. The process involves
    the extraction of sugarcane juice at small-scale sugarcane mills paying 15 - 25% of their total
    panocha output to privately owned millers. Such common practice of this specific productive
    sector in these communities aggravate poverty, being primarily associated with lack of income
    opportunities and poor agricultural productivity experienced by farmers due to such factors as
    low price for agricultural products, limited markets or low demand for sangkaka products due
    to lack of access to market information and awareness of market requirements, financial
    indebtedness to available credit institutions, farm land not owned, lack of capital to implement
    proper farm maintenance and good quality inputs, lack of education, lack of technology and
    facilities on proper land preparation technique and method for good agronomic practices and
    high transaction costs as a result of very low productivity and diseconomies of scale. Thus,
    development possibilities that could be intervened towards this end will be providing valueadded to current produce particularly sugarcane through technology support for product
    development, post harvest facilities for sugarcane milling and processing, product promotion and
    marketing and financing support.

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