THE PHILIPPINE RURAL

DEVELOPMENT
ED 241
CONTEMPORARY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DAISY LOU J. RETES

PHILIPPINE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM (PRDP)
PRDP is a 6 year program designed to establish the
government platform for modern, climate-smart and
market-oriented agri-fishery sector.

PRDP will partner with the LGUs and the private sector in
providing key infrastructure, facilities, technology, and
information that will raise incomes, productivity, and
competitiveness in the countryside.
 Who are the target beneficiaries of the Project?
PRDP will support smallholder
farmers and fishers to primarily increase their
marketable surpluses and their access to markets.
Under the PRDP’s Enterprise Development
Component (I-REAP), the small-scale agricultural,
livestock and fishery producers, processors, and
traders who are identified in the priority value chains
of the products or commodities of the region/province
are the target proponent groups.
They have to be an existing organized and
duly registered farmer
associations and cooperatives that are being
strengthened or aggregated into clusters to directly
Infrastructure Development Component (I-BUILD) will
benefit producers, traders and rural population in
general through construction of farm-to-market roads,
bridges, communal irrigation systems, potable water
systems, and other infrastructures like production,
processing, marketing, and postharvest facilities that
support development and linking of priority commodity
value chains in project areas.
Moreover, assistance to women will be given
focus through enterprise development and business
aspects of farming, post-harvest handling and processing
that are typically managed by women in the country.
Government Agencies that supports PRDP
 PRDP-Funded Projects

1. Concreting of Bagong Silang-Macatoc Farm-to-

Market Road in Victoria (2.7882 kilometers)
2. Concreting of Dulangan I-II Farm-to-Market Road in
Baco (5.3077 kilometers)
3. Construction of Oriental Mindoro Calamansi Trading
Center in Bayanan II, Calapan City
4. Construction of Calamansi Buying Station in Victoria
5. Construction of Oriental Mindoro Calamansi
Processing Center and Marketing in Matulatula, Pola