Galingan, Mike Andrew H.

Manansala, Roley Vincent P.

Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services
Research Work
The Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS) was
launched to improve the net income of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries/Farmers (ARBs) by providing
strategic subsidies in the form of professional services and revenue-generating agricultural machineries.
ARCCESS further aims to strengthen fledgling ARB organizations to enable them to consolidate their
production, post-harvest, processing, logistics and marketing activities through the provision of business
management training, mentoring and coaching and other services. The hope of Department of Agrarian
Reform (DAR) is that ARB organizations will be able to achieve economies of scale, improved farm yields
and enhanced capacity to access formal credit and markets in an effort to reduce rural poverty, attain food
sovereignty and inclusive growth.
According to DAR, the ARCCESS has been using 2011 funds to finance 210 sub-projects in 80
provinces. Designed to be implemented over a three-year period the project is in its early stages.
Although outreach has been constrained by limited resources, the ARCs have proven that agrarian reform
works when adequate, sustained and systematic assistance is delivered to ARBs. The challenge,
however, is to go beyond the scope of ARCs, as ARCs cover a very small percentage of agrarian reform
areas.
ARCCESS Premises

DAR menu on support services from Official Development Assistance (ODA) sources mainly on

rural infrastructure
Fragmented agricultural and rural development management
Transaction cost, economies of scale and organization
Enterprise organizing (engaging the market) rather than just community organizing (engaging the

state)
Public good managed as private good, e.g., farm equipment.
New Philippine Development Plan (PDP) hews closer to the Constitutional mandate by providing
that Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is one of the legs or bases of Competitive
and Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries. The PDP recognizes that CARP serves two basic
purposes: distributive justice and an avenue to inclusive growth.

ARCCESS Objectives &Components

Objectives - increase farmers productivity & farm operations efficiency; value adding to crops &

commodities; and, improve incomes

Component 1 is provision of farm equipment and machineries and processing facilities to ARB
organizations, managed as a business unit. The CSF will be utilized, for a fee, by ARBs and non-

ARBs.
Component 2 is deployment of Community-Based Enterprise Organizers (CBEOs) who will be
tasked to (a) create a business plan for and manage the common service facilities as a business
unit (b) build the capacity of ARBOs business units to take over the management of the CSF

Reaction or Opinion:
For us, the ARCCESS is a great project of the government of the Philippines. This is a project
that will help many people specially our farmer in the Philippines who are the beneficiaries of the agrarian
reform. Increasing the production of the means of agriculture will not only help our farmers but, this is also
a big help for each one of us. I think that this project will prosper, like the raising of the it will bring a lot of
stocks to us. And if there are enough supply of rice, we will not import rice anymore and I think that the
price of the rice will be lowered.
There are vast lands in the Philippines that use in terms of agricultural bases. Giving attention
and focus on it will also give the economy of our country to prosper. I think this must be the second
priority of the government because it will help the farmers to grow their business. Nowadays, many
farmers sell their farmland or transform it to an infrastructure because they are not satisfied for their
income. . If the farmer will be satisfy that they have a greater opportunity and income for tilling their farm,
they will continue what they are doing.
The machineries will give a farmer a lesser time to plant and harvest crops. But in contrast of it,
they will also many people that will lost their job because the machineries like the reaper and tractor will
replace a human being to do their work. It is okay for use to use and implement the machineries that will
help in farming, but we must also think about the people who will lose their job.
Reference:
http://www.dar.gov.ph/mfos/program-beneficiaries-development/289-arccess1
http://focusweb.org/sites/www.focusweb.org/files/the-state-of-agrarian-report.pdf
http://www.map-abcdf.com.ph/documents/presentations/Agribusiness/Agricultural%20Activities%20and
%20Services/P20110823.pdf