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The first evidence of rice found in the Philippines dates to between 2025 BC and 1432 BC. [11] This taro-first model is only indirect evidence in favor of the cultivation of taro before the Austronesian-speaking people arrived in Southeast Asia and for the lateness of wet-rice agriculture in the Philippines and other parts of Island Southeast Asia.
Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry. Its outputs include staples like rice and corn, but also export crops such as coffee , cavendish banana , pineapple and pineapple products, coconut , sugar , and mango . [ 1 ]
Locals up to this day still plant rice and vegetables on the terraces, although more and more younger Ifugaos do not find farming appealing, [6] often opting for the more lucrative hospitality industry generated by the terraces. [7] The result is the gradual erosion of the characteristic "steps", which require constant reconstruction and care.
The farm moved to Ilin Island in 1969, and then to Sitangkai in 1971. Family farms were established in 1972, when exports were 500 tons. By 1974 farming in Sitangkai was considered self-sufficient, and they produced over 12,000 tons. In 1976, farms were established at the Danajon Bank. This was, like Sitangkai, a remote area where fisherfolk ...
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The quantity and seasonality of rainfall greatly affects the distributional patterns of the natural vegetation often determining the kind of landscape as well as the species that will be present. In the Philippines, water availability also affects the selection of crops to be planted, for example, rice versus corn.
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The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable in ...