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Foreign-assisted Projects

 

Dissemination and Adoption of Milkfish Aquaculture Technology in the Philippines

Proponent

WorldFish Center

Implementing Agency

WorldFish Center

Collaborating Agencies

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)
University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV)
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD)

Coordinating Agency

Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR)

Duration

July 2004 to July 2007 (3 years)

Project Sites

Dasol, Pangasinan and Aringay, La Union

Budget

BAR: PhP 5,000,000

WorldFish Center: PhP 3,000,000 (in foreign currencies to provide technical backstopping and facilitate international collaborations with Indonesia and Taiwan)

General Objective

To analyze the production, market and policy structures of the milkfish industry in the Philippines in order to identify the constraints and opportunities for the future growth of the industry with emphasis on the adoption and impact of technological development using case studies in hatchery and grow-out production systems that can be transferred or replicated in other parts of the Philippines.

Specific Objectives

1. Documentation of the evolution of the milkfish industry in the Philippines, including recent trends in policies, institutions, technology and trade.
2. Identify the policies, institutional and socio-economic factors that has helped or hindered the adoption and uptake of various technologies and growth of the milkfish industry in the Philippines.
3. Examine the production, market (supply-demand requirement in domestic and international markets), institutional, and macro economic factors affecting the performance of the milkfish industry in the country.
4. Assess the role of research and technology transfer in the development of the industry in the Philippines.
5. Develop profiles of production and post-harvest technologies for milkfish, and examine their social and economic viabilities and environmental sustainability.
6. Formulate an industry development plan road map through prioritizing.
7. production and post-harvest technologies for adoption by the poor and small-holder operators through pilot-scale dissemination of selected technologies.

Expected Outputs

1. A comprehensive report/documentation on:



1. Evolution of the milkfish industry in the Philippines;
2. Policies, institutions, and socio-economic factors related to adoption and uptake of technologies and growth of the industry;
3. Production, market, and macroeconomic factors affecting the performance of milkfish in the recent years;
4. Role of research and technology transfer in the development of the industry;
5. Socio-economic and technological profiles of the milkfish industry;
6. Identification of constraints and opportunities to technology adoption;
7. Policy recommendations to national governments and the industry; and
8. Cross-country comparison with Indonesia and Taiwan in terms of policies, institutions, technologies, and trade in the milkfish industry.



2. Manuals, handbooks on priority technologies.
3. Technical reports on the outcome of the pilot-scale technology interventions.
4. Industry development plan road map (among others showing the link between the poor and small operators with the big time operators in marketing milkfish products locally and abroad)
5. Development of industry investment incentives and/or credit schemes, and identification of credit institutions.

Here's the project website of the milkfish project:

http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Milkfish_Project/Index.htm