One of the key concerns of our agriculture technocrats about raising the productivity of Philippine farms is the slow adaptation of farmers to technology, which includes mechanization and the utilization of new farming techniques.
Ironically, the passage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) during the time of former president Corazon Aquino only served to plunge emancipated tenant farmers deeper into poverty because the mandated five-hectare plot allocations were too small for the farmland to become profitable and competitive without the necessary tools for agriculture modernization.
In fact, today, almost 80 percent of farms are less than three hectares in size. Many farmers are finding it difficult to survive on the income of their farms, and have fallen deeper into debt, and have given up parts if not all of their land to encroaching urbanization.
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