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it's good Agriculture Agriculture plays a significant role in the Philippines economy involving about 40 Percent of Filipinos worker it contribute an Average of 20 percent to the gross domestic product this output comes mainly From agribusiness ,which is turn accounts for about 70 percents of the total agricultural output. The main agricultural enterpise is crop cultivation .Others are chicken broiler Products includi ning operation of chicken hatcheries ( 20.4percent) agricultural service (19.8 percent) and a hog farming (18.4percent) Intor The general trends in the last two decades Present a dim picture of the agriculture sectore .significant decrease in productivity of high production costs , and low government support to the sectore among other things have led to a crisis in the Philippines agriculture. The neglect of the agriculture sectore and the uneven distribution of resources woresend the poverty situation in rural areas .Only the remittances of migrat workers to theirs families have enabled the latter to survive crippling poverty brought about by stagnant agricultural productivity , stiff competition from cheaper food imports and periodic drought and floods devastated crops and livelihood Measurable Rural women undertake a variety of production and caring activities through not counted in official statistics , women have are active economic actors such as landless workers ,traders of agricultural and fishery products .and engaged in micro-manufaturing Enterprise of the total Rural worke Force ,women comprised 27.3 percent of the 10.4 million workers employed in the agricultural ,hunting and forestry sector in 2004 Women actual contribution to food production and rural economy remains undervalued if not invisible . Us a result Women have less access to productive resource than men do.access to land,technology,extension service,capital,and infrastructure support Tend to favour rural men From 1999 to 2003 parcitipition was significant in planting/transporting manual Weeding ,care of crops and harvesting . women were least involved in land preparation and furrowing .in play farming,about 35 percent to 49 percent of the farming household Hired women workers in pulling and budlling of seedlings, and in planting and harvesting activities More women workers were also employed in corn (harvesting/husking ,planting and transplanting and care of crops), and sugarcane farming (weeding and fertilizer application ).Women workers were least employed in account farming ,particularly in the removal of accounts meat Attainnable