Lesson 1.1 Philippine Agriculture: History and Current Situation Flashcards
(45 cards)
Domestication of plants and animals and the
development and dissemination of techniques for
raising crops and livestock productively
History of agriculture
Agriculture
began independently in the different parts of the globe.
Through trading and domestication
Three stages of Philippine agriculture
I. Pre-colonial Agriculture
II. Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial Times
(1565-1898)
III. Agriculture during the American Colonization
(1898-1946)
In this stage Filipinos had a civilization of their own
Pre-colonial Agriculture
True or false.
Is Pre-colonial Agriculture came from the Malay settlers and partly from
their response to the new environment?
True
Pre-colonial Agriculture main source of livelihood?
Agriculture
Pre-colonial Agriculture type of land preparation?
-kaingin system
(slash and burn)
- Tillage
It involves manipulation
of the soil with the use of bolo
or bare hands
Tillage
Types of Crops cultivated in Pre-colonial Agriculture?
coconuts, sugarcane, cotton, hemp,
bananas, & many species of fruits and
vegetables
Types of animal raised in Pre-colonial Agriculture?
chickens, pigs, goats, carabaos, &
small native ponies
pre-colonial Visayan farmers neither knew
the plow nor the carabao before the
arrival of the Spaniards
William Henry Scott
described the Mangyans of Mindoro as
sedentary agriculturists who farm without
the plow and the carabao
Robert B. Fox
Type of land ownership in pre-colonial agriculture?
Public & Private
Land Ownership where there is less arable land that could be
tilled freely by anyone
public
Land Ownership where rich and cultivated lands belongs to
nobles and datus - some rented land and paid in gold
or in kind
private
Stage of Phil. Agriculture where New crops were introduced ?
Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)
Reason why new crops are introduced during Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)
Spanish colonization
and trading
Major Crops grown in Agriculture during the Spanish Colonial
Times (1565-1898)
1.Coconut (Cocos nucifera)
2. Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)
3. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
4. Abaca (Musa textilis Nee)
5. Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)
Types of crops where in1642 Gov-Gen Salvador
Hurtado de Corcuera
decreed to plant.
Coconut
Types of crops where the Philippines are the largest exporter in mid 1700.
Sugarcane
started
during the reign of the 53rd Governor-
General Jose Basco y Vargas and the industry was abolished in 1880
but, tobacco farming was still
practiced (personal consumption)
tobacco monopoly in the Phil
The Popularity of this crop
started in 1820 when an
American military man
brought abaca samples to US.
Abaca (Musa textilis Nee)
oldest dyes in civilization & one of the
most natural dyes in the whole world
Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)
part of the Galleon and Chinese trade
but the demand is lessen due
to synthetic dyes which cost cheaper
Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria)