Industrialization and Tourism as Strategies for Promoting Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanization in the Philippines

摘要

Agricultural mechanization in the Philippines has long been the subject of debates among sociologists, economists and engineers who however, agree that agricultural mechanization is needed for agricultural productivity and increased production. The overriding reason against pushing mechanization is its labor-displacing consequences, particularly in rice farming. Thus, the Philippine government has treated agricultural mechanization with laissez faire attitude and has let mechanization proceed under its own course to be influenced only by market forces.