Agriculture

Major Sector

A resilient commerce and service industry with enhanced tourism and agricultural productivity

Economic Sector

• Functional fishing wharf
• Proximity to CDO
• Frequently visited coastline and beaches
• Maintained marine sanctuary potential for attracting tourist
• Panoramic hinterland landscape
• Rich mineral deposits
• Presence of agri-base industries
• Increasing local revenues
• Productive agri lands

Weakness

• Limited investors within identified industrial zones
• Illegal conversion of agri lands
• Low agri production
• Highly vulnerable production area

Opportunities

• Expand development
and utilization of aggro industrial areas
• Development potential
areas for quasi commercial industrial
establishment
• Develop potential ecotourism areas
• Provide ecotourism support activities

Weakness

• Allocate areas for agro industries with support facilities and
infrastructure.
• Network with foreign investors and other donor institution for
funding LGU projects

Threats

• Provide buffer and open space to protect existing beaches and resort
• Strengthen farmers and fisher folks associations/cooperatives
• Strengthen Greening Program
• Anti illegal mining strict enforcement

Weakness

• Strengthen Local Revenue Generation Plan
• Formulation of investment and promotion plan
• Strengthen DENR DAR DA linkages
• Introduction to climate change adaptive plans.

Livestock and Poultry
Fishery
Crop Production
Livestock and Poultry

The interior barangays of Awang and Bagocboc are the existing Livestock Development areas occupying an aggregate area of 200 hectares sharing 2.40 percent of the total agricultural areas.

Livestock and poultry production registered an increasing trend shifting from a backyard level to a commercial level, 294.13 percent increase in population from 2010 to 2011 and 59.53 percent increase in total production for the same period. Except for cattle, which showed a significant decrease of 63.86 percent in four years, the rest of the livestock and poultry type increased both in population and production.

The bulk of production of livestock and poultry comes from the commercial livestock operators. There market is outside the municipality. As 2013 the municipality have 22 livestock operators compared to 18 operators for the past 5 years. The presence of several commercial scale piggery and poultry farms in Patag, Malanang, Igpit and Taboc as well as dairy farm and ostrich farm in Malanang and Bonbon further supports the shift from a backyard to a commercial scale activity largely due to the proximity of the municipality to the regional center of Cagayan de Oro City where most of the consumers/demand come from.

Livestock and poultry are very much affected by the climate change especially by the long rainy days and the long dry spell Backyard scale livestock and poultry raising are privately raised by farmers with the assistance of the Local Agricultural Office and/or the Provincial and National Government.

Fishery

With the presence of structures along the coast of Macajalar Bay specifically within the salvage zone, municipal fishing within its municipal waters decreased in production by 20 percent (0.9MT) for the last four years while aquaculture production retained its annual production of 1.6 metric tons.

For the fisheries brackish water fishponds are no longer operational. The municipality has an aquaculture project in the hinterland and midland barangays in cooperation with the BFAR and PFO. The area and the Fingerlings are dependent with the two offices. Aquaculture production area for inland fishing covers 2.9 hectares. These are located within the swampy and deforested mangrove areas of Igpit and Barra and in the hinterland barangays. Aquaculture located at barra and Igpit are very much affected by flooding and continuous heavy rains which causes economic loss.

In terms of number of fishing households, a total of 278 are heterogenously distributed in the coastal barangays of Barra, Bonbon, Igpit and Luyongbonbon. These are municipal fisher folks and not commercial fishermen who fish outside the municipal waters where there are still abundant fish supplies.

Crop Production

From its total land area of 17,513.4351 hectares, agricultural land covers 65.91 percent or 11,542.407 hectares. Out of this total agricultural land, crop production area covers 3,543.07
hectares or 30.70 percent. Despite this land utilization status, it is evident that there is a decreasing trend in agricultural land
area with a 6.20 percent or 219.57 hectares decrease from the last 10 years. This is largely due to the conversion of actual agricultural lands to non-agricultural uses.

A total of 255.41 has. lowland rice area with 207 farmers and 94.9 has of upland rice with 97 farmers in the municipality comprising 11 barangays in 2013. 129.8 has. of Barangay Taboc and Malanang is prone to flooding. There are 2 existing MPDP and a Flatbed Dryer and 1 Bodega which can also be affected by 0.5 to 1 meter flooding. A Small Water Impounding System which serves 80 has. of the rice area. Production ranges from 3.0 mt to 5.91 mt. in which Taboc, Malanang and Igpit have higher production. Hybrid seeds are subsidize by the local government. Midland and hinterland barangays are the corn areas. A total of 3,108 hectars of corn in the whole municipality where bagocboc is the largest land area with 1,108 has. in terms of corn production, with an average production of 5.45 MT per hectar.

Mostly not affected by floods but corn can be affected by continues heavy rains and long dry season depending on the stage of growth. There are post-harvest facilities which is still functional and operational like sheller MPDP abaca stripping machine and coffee hulling machine. The LGU has 1 tractor to help the farmers in their
pre- production phase.