The rise of civilization began with Agriculture. Human society was forever changed as the idea of settling and growing our own foods began to flourish. History will tell us how intimate society’s connection to the land was and this leads us to the unabated fact that Agriculture is very much important. Agriculture is the science and art of the cultivation of soil, the breeding and raising of livestock, tillage, farming, etc. It further refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry; creating food surpluses that in some ways enabled the development of more densely populated and stratified societies.

At the moment, some have forgotten the fundamental connection of society and the land, and this is because we think only of what is at hand, we think only of what is being manifested apparently. Say for example, just because there is an abundant production of food coming from new technologies for the growing, transportation and storage of food, we tend to overlook humanity’s fundamental dependence on agriculture. The bountiful production of the moment is never a lifetime provisions. Remember that to be far from dependable sources of food is to risk malnutrition and starvation.

Everyday serves as an important opportunity for us to reconsider the primary importance of agriculture-and the degree to which the global and independent nature of human society today requires a re-thinking of our attitudes and approaches to world food production and distribution.

Agriculture is the deep-seated basis of community and the solutions to socioeconomic problems that begin at the village level. It is a broad art that entails understanding for the realization of its importance to human lives. In preparing a roadmap to revitalize Philippine Agriculture, we will simplify the vast idea of this study with two sub-sectors of Agriculture that will define all other studies related to it, the “Agri” and the “Agro”. The art of crop production which is as old as civilization itself and its essential features have remained largely unchanged over the ages. Plantation crops which fall under the Agri sub-sector also play a major role in national economics because it generates value added goods for the international market. The country's main agricultural crops are rice (most important food crop, a staple food in most of the country), corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca (a banana-like plant). Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote (a type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton.

It is essential that society knows the art of planting crops as it alleviates the basic problem that we are undeniably facing---the food insecurity. The scarcity will be much more expressive if all of us will just rely to the farmers and never toil ourselves. This is human’s responsibility to uphold the central importance of agriculture as foundation of global food security and economic stability; we can start it in our local/village level and its impact will be benefited globally.

Agriculture, on the other hand has an immense impact to humanity as it covers not only crops for global food supplies, but also livestock industry, consisting primarily of cattle, carabao, hogs, chickens and fishing. These fall under the sub-sector Agro Agriculture.  In addition, it is also beneficial to have an operational farm unit in which a number of tree species are raised along with livestock, poultry and/or fish; mainly for the purpose of satisfying the farmers’ basic needs. If livestock falls short or becomes less productive, steps are being taken to improve livestock through selection and cross breeding to enhance quality and quantity of their production. Livestock, poultry, fishing constitute an important component of society as it forms the life line of the people, providing us with energy from animals’ meat and milk. Age old wisdom is managing this wealth.

On the final note, Agriculture is a prevailing factor that determines economic development and poverty alleviation of our country. It is also a significant sector for employment and labor that is imperative in the light of the Philippines development efforts. The tenor of this world might change due to industrialization and support of all modern technologies designed to improve human lives with demand that is so accessible; the country as one of the developing countries might jump to more mechanized and industrialized environment, but it remains a valid truth that no matter how far this world has gone, it will still go back to the basic---the throbbing of human’s need for Agriculture as pillar and subsistence of our survival.