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    Employment Generation Potential of the Rice Value Chain: The Case of Mlang, North Cotabato in Mindanao

    Balgos, Carol Q.; Digal, Larry N. | June 2017
    Abstract
    This paper aims to examine the employment generation potential of the rice value chain. It analyzes the issues in the chain and the strategies to address them, including their impact on job generation. A value chain framework was used in the analysis focusing on the case of Mlang, North Cotabato. Both primary and secondary data were utilized. Key informant interviews and focus group discussions were applied to collect primary data. Two rice farmer surveys in Mindanao by the World Bank (2014) and Catholic Relief Services (2015) also served as inputs. Using the job estimation for Mlang, the total jobs generated in the rice value chain in North Cotabato is estimated at 23,011 from a total area of 125,731 hectares (ha) in 2014. For Mindanao, an estimated 221,796 jobs were generated from a total of 1,189,266 ha of harvested area in 2014. A range of issues affecting the performance of the rice value chain from production, postproduction, to marketing can be addressed by enhancing profitability through improved productivity, pricing, lowering cost, and diversifying income sources through intercropping, processing, and product differentiation. Implementing these strategies particularly to address severe constraints can potentially generate 36,672 additional jobs.
    Citation
    Balgos, Carol Q.; Digal, Larry N.. 2017. Employment Generation Potential of the Rice Value Chain: The Case of Mlang, North Cotabato in Mindanao. © Philippine Institute for Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7655.
    ISSN
    2508-0954
    2508-0849 (electronic)
    Keywords
    Price stabilization
    Food prices
    Price policy
    Crisis
    Unemployment
    Economic cooperation
    Gross domestic product
    Employment
    Economic forecast
    Economic indicators
    Growth models
    Gross domestic product
    Macroeconomics
    Economic forecast
    Social condition
    Economic dependence
    Economic assistance
    Economic Crisis
    Economic Efficiency
    Economic Policies
    Regional Economic Development
    Job Evaluation
    Evaluation
    Macroeconomic
    Macroeconomic Analysis
    Performance Evaluation
    Impact Evaluation
    Economic Welfare
    Economic Incentives
    Open price system
    Price fixing
    Price regulation
    Consumer price indexes
    Financial crisis
    Labor economics
    Regional economics
    Turnover
    Economic survey
    Job analysis
    Labor turnover
    Exports
    Economic development projects
    Economic policy
    Economic forecasting
    Welfare economics
    Welfare state
    Poor
    Food relief
    Poverty
    Domestic economic assistance
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7655
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    Author
    Balgos, Carol Q.
    Digal, Larry N.
    Theme
    Economics
    Evaluation
    Small Medium Business
     
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