USAID DEC
FINAL REPORT OF AN EVALUATION OF PHILIPPINE ACCELERATED RICE PRODUCTION PROGRAM
This project is a complex of indigenous institutions (rural banks, extension system, grain marketing agency); national media; tested high yielding rice varieties and technology for their use; and an active agrarian reform program; all being interacted upon by a farm population ready to move from a traditional acceptance of risk aversion to becoming economic partners in their country's development.
BERNHART, RICHARD V.|BORTON, RAYMOND L. · 1975
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Abstract
The evaluators believe that while some aspects of this program could serve as a guide to other countries, it is not replicable in its Philippine format and they caution against over-publicizing Philippine results as a possible cure-all for other countries' rural development and food production dilemmas. The project is achieving its goals. The initial programs accomplished the two purposes set for them: alleviate the situation caused by flood and drought; and, increase production of rough rice. The delivery system set up is working quite well. Many of the program's early problems have been overcome or diminished. The evaluators made 14 recommendations including: (1) the Government of the Philippines and USAID should continue to support the program with particular emphasis on high repayment rates for loans and continued development of the agricultural technologists capabilities; and (2) research studies of the credit system and its uses should be initiated.
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