Has Investing on the Grains Production Enhancement Program (GPEP) Benefitted Farmers in Increasing Their Output, Productivity, and Income?

Abstract

This study is an assessment of the impact of investing in the Grains Production Enhancement Program (GPEP), under which the government identified Key Grain Areas (KGAs), where it would focus the package of technologies (POTs) to increase efficiency in rice and corn production, and help farmers improve their total output, productivity and income. In comparing the first 3 years (1993-95) of the program with that of the previous accomplishments of the chosen areas, the benefit-cost analysis reveals the inefficiency in production, the growing strain of resource cost and the instability of the net profit-cost ratio of both rice and corn crops.