Dumingag Data

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Sustainable Organic

Agriculture

MAYOR NACIANCENO M. PACALIOGA, JR.

Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur

Region IX, Mindanao


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Situationer 2nd class municipality

44 barangays: 33 uplands,

11 lowlands landlocked municipality

no mining, logging andmarine resources

people mainly rely onagriculture.

90% of population are poorbased on NSCB standards


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Situationer 84% of the farmers

have no sufficient

production andincome to at leastsupport the basicneeds of theirfamily.

In Dumingag, youcan witness

widespread poverty


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Challenges of Leaders

How to liberate the peoplefrom poverty, sickness and

hunger? How to bring the

municipality to a higherlevel of development?

How to provide brighterfuture for the people?


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Program of Government Genuine Peoples Agenda

a product of collective discussion

and leadership a comprehensive program of

government

solution to the challenges

provides the right direction

assures the better future of thepeople


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Establishing Local Economy Sustainable Organic Agriculture

Food Sufficiency Program

Special Program

Household Approach Farming instead ofcorporate farming

People Empowerment Capacity Building

Peoples participation in decision making and governance


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Innovative Features Our Strategies

1. We build trust in the leadership

among the people.

2. Building the appropriate structure forprogram implementation.

3. Direction towards food sufficiency andliberation from poverty.


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Our major thrust:FOOD SUFFICIENCY


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Our Vision:To make Dumingag an Organic Capital of

the Philippines

The LGU givesemphasis oftransformingDumingag fromconventionalfarming intoorganic.


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What have we done?


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I. Promotion of Peoples

Participation and Empowerment A. Community integration

Under my leadership, the local

officials, heads of offices, anddifferent stakeholders had immersedin all the 11 lowland barangays and33 upland barangays campaigning for

the economic program that iscentered on Sustainable Organicfarming.


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Had organized the livelihood development

coordinators (LDC)

The LDCs are the direct arm of the Office

of the Mayor and work as communityorganizers

B. Employment of Community Organizing Initiative


Participation and Empowerment


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Through the LDCs, the LCE has beenable to dialogue with the people atthe grassroots level in all the stagesof planning, implementing and

evaluating the GPA.





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A councilor from every barangay was

designated as a focal person for eachagriculture program in their respectivebarangay supervised by its PunongBarangay.

They are also organized municipal-wideper agriculture program and work alongwith the LDCs.





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Has organized Organic Farming (OF)Teamtasked to lead theimplementation of the organicfarming program, especially

education and advocacy.


I. Promotion of PeoplesParticipation and Empowerment


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Has trained Barangay Livelihood Development

Coordinators (BLDC) as farmer technicians trainedon Organic Agriculture technologies that shall workdirectly with the farmers.




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The organic farming practitioners was organized

into Dumingag Organic Farming SystemPractitioners Association with an active set ofofficers and members.

They also formed a credit cooperative that could

help better in raising capital for farming or insharing the cost of farming failures due tocalamities.

Their cooperative initially started in providing

production loan to the organic farmingpractitioners and helps in accessing good market.




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SPSPP Stands for Social Preparation and

Strengthening Peoples Participation

It is a new social approach designed purposelyfor Dumingag to set the minds of the people towork and to participate to the program for their

own good.

In this approach, communities were able todiagnose their concrete social problems, identifypriorities and plan out doable solutions to

address their problems.

C. Employing SPSPP Approach



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II. Partnerships with otherOrganic Agriculture Advocates

The Dumingag LGU was able to establishpartnerships with:

Assisi Development Foundation, Inc. (ADFI), forpartnership in Sustainable Agriculture, Water System, andLumad Education;

Xavier University- Sustainable Agriculture Center, foreducation and advocacy for Sustainable Agriculture andClimate Change;

Philippine Agrarian Reform Fund (PARFUND), for Rice-Duck Farming and Technology; Department of Agriculture, for various programs and

projects for livelihood and support infra services and lately,on organic farming;

Provincial Government, on organic farming;

JH Cerilles State College, for research and documentationand on organic farming;


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II. Partnerships with otherOrganic Agriculture Advocates

The Dumingag LGU signed MOAs tostrengthen partnerships in promoting organicagriculture:

Assisi Development Foundation

Xavier University-Sustainable Agriculture

Center

JH Cerilles State College


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Organic Farms Modeling

The Dumingag LGU and JH CerillesState College signed a MOA to

transform 100% the 43 hectares ricefields owned by the school into organicfarming model, in support of the

organic agriculture drive of the LGU.


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The Dumingag LGU was accepted asnew member of IFOAM through the

endorsement of Xavier UniversitySustainable Agriculture Center (XU-SAC)

III. Membership to International Federation of

Organic Agriculture Movement (IFOAM).


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IV. Attendance to South-East Asia Trainer's Training on SA

The Dumingag LGU was able to send seven(7) students to the South-East Asia trainers

training at Xavier University on OrganicAgriculture for one-month course.


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Recently, through the facilitation of SAC-Xavier University, Dumingag LGU was able to

send three delegates to South Korea for athree-month training on Natural FarmingSystems. (MAO, SB on Agriculture, and anemployee under Mun. Agricultures Office)


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V. Installation of InternalControl System (ICS)

The Dumingag LGU is now on its 3rdPhase of the process to acquire

capability to certify its agriculturalproducts in compliance with theinternational organic standards through

OCCP.


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VI. Formulated Dumingag SustainableOrganic Agriculture Master Plan

The Dumingag LGU now has a masterplan on organic agriculture, crafted

by different sectors during a strategicplanning with different stakeholdersassisted by Sustainable Agriculture

Center of Xavier University, CDO City.


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VII. Establishment of Dumingag Instituteof Sustainable Organic Agriculture

The Dumingag LGUhas just opened the

Dumingag Instituteof SustainableOrganic Agriculture(DISOA), a school

that trains farmers onorganic farmingprinciples andtechnology.


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VII. Establishment of Dumingag Instituteof Sustainable Organic Agriculture

Though DISOAstarted with modular

courses as avocational school, itaims to become a

regular college lateroffering special andladderized courses onorganic agriculture.


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Education and Advocacies

All public and private school teachers in alllevels were educated on Sustainable Organic

Agriculture and Climate Change

Almost all the people in Dumingag were givenadvocacies and educated on SustainableOrganic Agriculture and Climate Change


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Integrative Medicine

We identify integrative medicine as thebest peoples approach in dealing with

health problems Had educated women and men in 44

brgys. including IP women in 23

Ancestral Domain Barangays Had regularly produce alternative

medicines


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Positive Results and Impacts:


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1. Increased Number ofOrganic Farming Practitioners

The number of organic farmingpractitioners has increased from less

than 20 farmers in 2007 to 438 atpresent and still counting.

They also have a hunlosor labor-

sharing scheme among their memberswhose farms are in the same area.


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From less than 20 organic farmingpractitioners before the term and now it

reaches 438; This implies that

the organic farms

in Dumingaghave dramaticallyincreased, as well

as the productionof organic rice.


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2. Produced Organic seeds

Dumingag isnow generating

and storing ourown seedvarieties of riceso that we will

not be at themercy of bigagrichemicalfirms in the

future.


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3. Establishment ofVermicomposting Facilities

Through theassistance andfacilitation ofCongressmanVictor J. Yu, 1stDistrict of

Zamboanga delSur, VERMICULTUREhas since become acommunity activity in

Dumingag already.


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4. Rice-Duck Farming System

The Dumingag LGUhas around 75 rice-duck farmers that

covers 76 has. bothfrom upland andlowland.

This revolving rice-duckfarming project isultimately aimed to benefitall rice farmers inDumingag whose farm hasadequate water supply.


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Mayor Jun Pacalioga himself harvested121 sacks in a hectare, on a 50kls/sack,

on his first harvest.

Punong Barangay Efren Costanilla, a

rice-duck farmer, harvested 115 sacks,of organic rice in a hectare and hadobserved a reduce of 50% cost of farminputs and less laborious.


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5. Able to identify OrganicVegetable Basket of the Town

One Barangay Dapiwak was identifiedby the locals as Organic Vegetable

Basket of the town because of itsorganic vegetables produced.

Series of trainings on OrganicVegetable farming were conducted.

Farmers are provided with seeds, foliarsprayers and other farm implements.


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6. Inland Fisheries wereDeveloped.

Throughpartnership with

MSU-Naawan,DumingagInland Fisheries

DevelopmentProgram wasinstitutionalized.


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6. Inland Fisheries wereDeveloped.

From less than5 ponds in 2007

to 264 ponds todate.


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7. Native Chicken in mostHouseholds Raised Organically

Most householdswere trained organicfeed formulation and

encouraged to raisenative chickenorganically.

Chicken raisers wereformed intocooperative for

stable market access.


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8. From 350 has. of Cassava in2007, now more than 2000 has.

To date, thereare already more

than 2000hectares ofcassava

plantationharvestable oncea year


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Proven Discovery: Hole MethodOrganic-Based Cassava

Mayor Jun himself madethe first discovery withcassava in his owndemo farm.

Later, some localfarmers successfullyapplied the samemethod with other crops,like banana and etc.

It has discovered that by using the hole-methodof farming (fondly called the Cerilles-method offarming), any crop would have a bigger yield.

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ZamboSursProvincial

Agriculturist

Malyn Bersalesand Mayor JunPacalioga with12.7 kls. Freshtuber cassavadirectlyuprooted from

hole methodorganic-basedtechnology.


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ProvincialCassavaCoordinatorslifted 16.2 klscassava freshtubers from holemethod organic-

basedtechnology.


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9. From 5 has. ofAbaca in 2007,now there are around 500 has.

Abaca arescattered in

the uplandbarangays ofDumingag.


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9. From 5 has. of Abaca in 2007, nowthere are around 500 has.

90% of abacaplanter are

considered assmallholdershaving lessthan twohectares ofabaca farm.


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9. From 5 has. of Abaca in 2007, nowthere are around 500 has.

More that 100 farmworkers making a

living in the abacafarms. This meansthat the effect of the

abaca campaign hasreached thegrassroots level.


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10. Abaca Industry Flourished

Before the term of Mayor Pacalioga, abacahandicrafts did not exist in Dumingag. At this

time, the local abaca industry is flourishing.LGU had increased its handicraft workforcefrom 4 to 60 women. The local abacaindustry generates jobs, provides income,

and stimulates further the local economy.


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Dumingag Handicrafts display center


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11. From less 10 has. of Rubber, now itturns 1,100 has. and still counting.

This vast rubberplantation inDumingag now

will surely raisethe income ofDumingaglandowners andrubber tapperssubstantially.


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11. From less 10 has. of Rubber, now itturns 1,100 has. and still counting.

This does notinclude the jobs to

be generated fromthe processingplants that will be

built to process therubber latex inDumingag.


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12. Less than 5 has. in 2007, nowmore than 200 has. of Falcata

TheseFalcata

plantationsareharvestable

in aroundseven years.

To ensure the market the LGU


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To ensure the market, the LGUengaged in MOA with different buyers.

MOA with

NewTech Pulp,

Corp. for theabaca;

MOA withNovawood

industries for

falcata


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MOA with San Miguel Corp. for cassava

For rubber, market is not a problem forthe demand is high, MOA may not benecessary.


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Damayang Pilipino saNederland and Jobs,

Education for Peace -on womenempowerment, socialenterprise andintegrative medicine

Other partnerships:


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Growth with Equity in Mindanao (USAid-GEM)- on revenue generation program

Other partnerships:


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The local income has increased. More peoplepaid their real property and business taxes.

Average local income before 2007: P2.9M Rising trend:2007-P4.5M;2008-P5.7M;2009-

P12.5M;

Estimated local income in 2010: P13.5M

More business In 2007: 180

In 2010: 324

Other political accomplishments


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Estimated Average Money Circulation inthe market vicinity:

In 2007: only P100,000At present: P2.5 Million



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No illegal gambling

Normally Peaceful

No smokingRed Orchid Award by WHO-DOH NO TO LARGE SCALE MINING: As the official

stand of the LGU

No Trans-National Corporations-owned FARMS

NO TO GMO: LGUs official stand by virtue of aMunicipal Ordinance


h li i l li h


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Galing Pook awardee as oneof the TOP 10 MOSTOUTSTANDING LGUs IN

THE PHILIPPINES 2010personally awarded by HisExcellency Benigno SimeonC. Aquino, I

Steering local developmentthru people empowerment


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Weve manage to set-up thefundamentals of building a local

development without compromising theinterest of the people.

Food security (Organic Agriculture-Based)

Household-based farming

People on equal footing with capitalist

Good governance peoples participation andthe government is accountable to the people

Conclusion


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Conclusion

Lastly, were able to let the people participate on a program fortheir own good.

Our goal, to attain food sufficiency and liberation from poverty, isworth working.

It is a tough task, but we need to do this for a better quality of lifeand future of our people.

Our commitment and determination will enable us to win the war

against poverty and will translate our dreams into reality. Three to five years from now, Dumingag people will triumph!


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