A study of an agribusiness system approach to the Philippine sugar industry and its significant changing patterns in the later 1960's

• Main Author: Rodriguez, Pio S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1970
• Subjects: Sugar industry > Philippines; Agribusiness
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/130
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study has dual and interrelated objectives and is addressed both to the decision makers in the sugar industry and to students in Agribusiness. As a principal objective, the study aims to provide a formal insight of the Philippine sugar industry with emphasis on the dynamics or changes that decision makers face. More specifically, it aims to investigate, describe, and analyze the industry’s significant changing patterns during the late 1960’s, those that pervade as we enter the decade of the 1970’s. As a corollary objective, the study seeks to contribute a modest work to the body of knowledge in an industry which students of Agribusiness may have interest in. The study is designed to develop a total commodity system approach to sugar. In particular, it attempts to develop a single work from which students may gain, in one sitting, a fuller understanding of the sugar industry complex-its entire vertical structure, its major behavioral and performance patterns, and its significant changing patterns. One chapter of this study presents the entire sugar industry complex. Here, a commodity system approach for sugar is traced, from which was built compact and fitting generalities and details of the present vertical structure of the industry, and its coordinators. The presentation of the central theme of the chapter was preceded by a brief introduction of the Agribusiness concept, the importance of sugar, its genesis, and its early development in the Philippines. The entire chapter serves as a setting for the subsequent discussion of the significant changing patterns of the industry. Then, another chapter proposes to present highly selective behavioral and performance patterns in the production, marketing, and financial phases of the industry. The next chapter covers the investigation phase of the study. The significant changing patterns are described, analyzed, and supported by trend analysis of statistical data and evaluation of authoritative pronouncements. Changes are the central themes of this