The Agricultural developments of rice production in Gapan, Nueva Ecija during the first twenty years of American Colonial Period (1903-1923
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2023
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Riza May V. Robete
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This study pertaining to rice production trace the historical agricultural developments of Gapan City on rice production during the first twenty years of American colonial period, as one of the cities that make up the province of Nueva Ecija which is one of the most contributors of rice production in the Philippines.
This study is qualitative that explores historical accounts by doing archival method to gather the primary and secondary instrument and used document analysis in order to interpret the historical developments of rice production in Gapan, Nueva Ecija during the first twenty years of American period.
American may have bought the biggest change in the agricultural rice production through commercialization and modernization in the Philippines, ans Nueva Ecija as oneof the main agricultural provinces, where the twon of Gapan is located, as for this town to be one on the contributors to the agricultural economic progress in the first two decades of American rule. Truly, the province and it's towns like Gapan are a seed bank to the rice production industry, but the progress and developments from infrastructures, agrarian policies, to mdernization of agriculture which the scientific agriculture, are important factors that benefited the rice production industry, but since meager profits from the government's decision to prioritize urban customers over rice producers resulted in dissatisfaction which in turn fueled social and agricultural unrest.