Mandates

Ensure availability of high quality seeds and planting materials (EO 366“Rationalization Plan”, EO 116
“Renaming The Ministry Of Agriculture And Food AsMinistry Of Agriculture, Reorganizing Its Units, Integrating All Offices And Agencies Whose Functions Relate To Agriculture And Fishery Into The Ministry And For Other Purposes”; and RA 7308 “Seed Industry Development Act of 1992”);

Research and Development/Technology generation (EO 366 “Rationalization Plan”and EO 116 “Renaming The Ministry Of Agriculture And Food As Ministry OfAgriculture, Reorganizing Its Units, Integrating All Offices And Agencies Whose Functions Relate To Agriculture And Fishery Into The Ministry And For Other Purposes”);

Management of crop pest and diseases (EO 366 “Rationalization Plan” and EO 116“Renaming The Ministry Of Agriculture And Food As Ministry Of Agriculture, Reorganizing Its Units, Integrating All Offices And Agencies Whose Functions Relate To Agriculture And Fishery Into The Ministry And For Other Purposes”);

Sustainable conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (RA 7308 “Seed Industry Development Act of 1992”);

Plant quarantine (PD 1433 “Plant Quarantine Decree of 1978”, EO 366 “Rationalization Plan”, and EO 116 “Renaming The Ministry Of Agriculture And Food As Ministry Of Agriculture, Reorganizing Its Units, Integrating All Offices And Agencies Whose Functions Relate To Agriculture And Fishery Into The Ministry And For Other Purposes”);

Seeds and plant materials certification (RA 7308 “Seed Industry Development Act of 1992”, EO 366 “Rationalization Plan”, and EO 116 “Renaming The Ministry Of Agriculture And Food As Ministry Of Agriculture, Reorganizing Its Units, Integrating All Offices And Agencies Whose Functions Relate To Agriculture And Fishery Into The Ministry And For Other Purposes”);

Plant variety registration and protection (RA 7308 “Seed Industry Development Act of 1992”, An Act to Promote and Develop the Seed Industry in the Philippines and Create A National Seed Industry Council and For Other Purposes and RA 9168 “Philippine Plant Variety Protection Act of 2002”, An Act to Provide Protection To New Plant Varieties, Establishing National Plant Variety Protection Board And For
Other Purposes”);

Food safety (LOI 986 , EO 366 “Rationalization Plan”, RA 10611 “Food Safety Act of 2013”, and RA 11203 Liberalizing the Importation, and Trading of Rice, Lifting for the Purpose the Quantitative Import Restriction on Rice and Other Purposes);

Biotechnology (Joint Department Circular No. 1, s. 2016 “Rules and Regulations for the Research and Development, Handling and Use, Transboundary Movement, Release into the Environment, and Management of Genetically-Modified Plant and Plant Products Derived from the Use of Modern Biotechnology”)