Hydroponic System
Chapter1
The Problem and Its Background
Introduction:
The Philippines is an agricultural country with a land area of 30 million hectares, 47% of which is agricultural land. In the Philippines, prime agricultural lands are located around the main urban and high population density areas. Due to the rapid growth of our population, food demand increases but the supply is insufficient to provide the needs of all people, since the demand is high, but the supplies are low making most of the foods especially agricultural products unaffordable particularly to the poor people in both rural and urban areas. About half of the Philippines’ 88 million people live in rural areas. Poverty is most severe and most widespread in these areas and almost 80 per cent of the country’s poor people live there. Agriculture is the primary and often only source of income for poor rural people, most of whom depends on subsistence farming and fishing for their livelihoods. There are substantial differences in the level of poverty between the regions and provinces and the poverty gap between urban and rural areas is widening.
Together with the food shortage is residential area shortage; to suffice this problem agricultural lands are being developed into residential lands which still leads back to the first problem stated the food shortage. Due to agricultural land shortage, we need to import products not only from other provinces from the mountainous regions some 150Km north of Manila, and also from our neighboring countries. Because of product importation, supplies become more expensive. Consumption of fruits, vegetables and even rice is regarded as a luxury for the urban poor, due to its high cost. In line to this fact is the incidence of malnutrition, especially among infants and young children which is even higher among the urban poor than the national average indicates.
Among the causes of poverty are a decline in the productivity and profitability of farming, smaller farm sizes.
The Problem and Its Background
Introduction:
The Philippines is an agricultural country with a land area of 30 million hectares, 47% of which is agricultural land. In the Philippines, prime agricultural lands are located around the main urban and high population density areas. Due to the rapid growth of our population, food demand increases but the supply is insufficient to provide the needs of all people, since the demand is high, but the supplies are low making most of the foods especially agricultural products unaffordable particularly to the poor people in both rural and urban areas. About half of the Philippines’ 88 million people live in rural areas. Poverty is most severe and most widespread in these areas and almost 80 per cent of the country’s poor people live there. Agriculture is the primary and often only source of income for poor rural people, most of whom depends on subsistence farming and fishing for their livelihoods. There are substantial differences in the level of poverty between the regions and provinces and the poverty gap between urban and rural areas is widening.
Together with the food shortage is residential area shortage; to suffice this problem agricultural lands are being developed into residential lands which still leads back to the first problem stated the food shortage. Due to agricultural land shortage, we need to import products not only from other provinces from the mountainous regions some 150Km north of Manila, and also from our neighboring countries. Because of product importation, supplies become more expensive. Consumption of fruits, vegetables and even rice is regarded as a luxury for the urban poor, due to its high cost. In line to this fact is the incidence of malnutrition, especially among infants and young children which is even higher among the urban poor than the national average indicates.
Among the causes of poverty are a decline in the productivity and profitability of farming, smaller farm sizes.
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