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Agriculture plays an essential role in the Philippine economy. It employs over 24% of Filipino workers and supplies food to the country's expanding population. However, farmers and fishermen in rural regions have remained the poorest since 2006. With the aim of improving Philippine agriculture, this study determines the factors that affect agricultural production and analyzes their impacts to suggest government policies. Two econometric models will be used in the research. The agricultural policy model makes use of irrigation, credit, and government spending, while the traditional model employs land, capital, and labor as independent variables that are regressed against agricultural GVA. The findings indicate that the only traditional variables that significantly affect agricultural production are labor and capital. Meanwhile, government expenditure is the only factor that has a significant effect under the agricultural policy model. During droughts, irrigation systems frequently fail to function and typically have poor design elements for workers to operate on. On the other hand, credit is not easily accessible to farmers, and those who acquire it often use it for personal activities rather than for farming. Therefore, the researchers concluded that the state should focus on public investments, which may be in the form of education subsidies and training programs for farm employees to efficiently adapt to new technologies and manage finances better. Overall, agricultural production would improve with additional modernized capital and public investment in human capital that increases labor productivity.

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