Municipality of Kauswagan

1.0 Structure of Economy

The Municipality of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte  has suited the three (3) Sectoral Economic Activity such as the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary though are equally distributed to the employed residents. It shows that the Primary Sector has a great number of employed constituting 44.00% followed by the Tertiary Sector which has 33.00% and lesser to Secondary Sector which has only 23.00% (refer to table 53). Comparing the 2007 and 2009 employment sharing for the 3 Economic Sector resulted a Shift Points of 0.00% meaning there are balanced shifting between the 3 sectors (refer to table 54).

Table  No. 53

Economic Activity by Sector  by Employment and Percent Distribution

Kauswagan, Lanao  del Norte : 2009

Table No. 54

Structural Shift in the Local Economy

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

2.0  Primary Sector

The primary sector is composed of basic type of occupation visibly observed in the municipality such as Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry disaggregated to the 13 barangays of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte.

Agricultural Crops

Crop production

There are about 5,313.0818 hectares or more or less 88.00% of the municipal total land  area are devoted to agricultural developments specially crop productions. Currently, the municipality is embarking  only a Permanent Crops with specific planted areas such as : Coconut ( 4,588.5707 has. ); Lowland Fruit  Trees ( 130.0000 has.); Banana (130.3000 has.); Other crops (464.2111 has.). Seasonal Crops is very much rear to the municipality because it is observed  non-profitable for farmers  (refer to table 55).

Table No. 55

Area Planted to Seasonal and Permanent Crops

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

Livestock & Poultry

There are a total of 4,694 heads of livestock and  poultry animals in the locality as of year 2009. The large number of such belongs to the chicken which has 2,553 heads  followed by hogs / swine which has 906 heads. Comparatively, in the succeeding 3 years 2007 is observed to have high animal population while 2008 is much lesser compared to 2009 (refer to table 56). Greater number of animal distribution is observed in the rural barangays in the coastal areas such as Tugar,  Kawit Oriental,Tacub, Libertad and Kawit Occidental while the urban Barangays of Poblacion and Bagumbayan only got higher animal population for hog / swine (refer to table 57).

Table No. 56

Livestock and Poultry Population by Selected Years

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2007 - 2009

Table No. 57

Distribution of Animal Population by Barangay (Backyard Basis)

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

Table No. 58

Livestock and Poultry Products, Production-Consumption Situation

Kauswagan, Lannaao del Norte : 2009

Fisheries 

Kauswagan is sprawled along of Iligan Bay, because of strategic location, Kauswagan is one of the Fish and other aquamarine suppliers of the province of Lanao del Norte. Sources of marine products are the water of the Bay. Existing swamplands/marshlands are only 18.9970 hectares accounting to only 0.31 percent of the total Municipal areas which is 6,037.5929 hectares. Although, Kauswagan might play the vital role of fish and marine supplier-production, still fishery activities could not even sustain its local consumption requirement. As of 2009, there are twelve (12)  fisherman’s association/Bantay Dagat 3  in Poblacion, 2 in Bagumbayan, 1-in Kawit Oriental, 1-in Kawit Occidental, 2-in Libertad and 3-in Tacub with a total of 421 members. Fishing is in Water 10-15 fathoms depths.  Fishery activities in the municipality are limited to non-commercial domestic fishing gears such as  artificial reef with two  types of module-  1.) Bamboo Module and 2.) Fish Shelter (Payao). Other fishing activities are Fishing Nets, Spear Fishing and Hook and Line fishing which is usually undertaken by marginal fishermen (refer to table 59).

The existing fishing ground of the municipality is 1,985.88 hectares subdivided by the seven (7) coastal Barangays of Libertad (283.98 has.); Tacub (283.39 has.); Bagumbayan  ( 284.18 has.); Poblacion ( 291.92 has.); Tugar ( 280.21 has.); Kawit Oriental ( 281.00 has.); and Kawit Occidental ( 281.20 has.) see table 61. Of the said fishing ground the top ten products catched in the year 2009 are Alimango, Squid, Labayan, Tamban, Mulmol, Danggit, Barungoy, Bugsawan, Gutob and Sambagon with estimmated  average annual fish catched of 197.83 mmetric tons ( refer to table 61).

Table No. 59

Location &  Number of Fishermen by Type of Fishing Gears & Vessels used

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

Table No. 60

Location and Area in Hectares of existing Fishing Ground

Kauswagan, Lannao del Norte : 2009

Table No. 61

Production of existing Fishing Ground

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

Food Self-Sufficiency Assessment

The food production is computed using the average production of farmers in a week by 48 weeks while the demand for food s computed by a product of covered population by the Annual per capita food requirement. The computation resulted a low level Food Self-sufficiency for meat of  2.13% and highest level for rootcrops of 177.57% (refer to table 62).

Table No. 62

Food Self-Sufficiency

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009

Forestry

In  Kauswagan, there are areas identified as forestlands totaling to about 412 hectares or 6.83 percent of the Municipal area, which is 6,037.5929 hectares, more or less. These areas are found in Barangay Baraason, Cayontor, Inudaran, Libertad, Tacub & Tingintingin. Due to destructive practices of some illegal loggers, the rampant cutting of minor forest products and the widespread practices of Kaingin or shifting cultivation resulted in the rapid denudation of these forestlands and in turn destruction of watershed areas. As of the decades 90’s to yyear 2000 , those areas are logged-over and remained un-reforested with this year, thus nearby farmers attempted in planting of coconut & root crops and made them very successful, in fact said shifting is found productive.  At present, wood and other forest products that could be obtained in these areas are limited to local consumption only.

Agricultural Support Facilities

The Local Government Unit Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte had existing 2 units Dumptruck,  1 unit Road Grader and 1 unit Farm tractor which are presently utilized to maintain and improve agricultural support facilities such as Barangay Farm to Market Roads, Farm lands and Post Harvest facilities. Other Post harvest facilitiesto support agricultural services are multi-purpose pavements in the barangays that utilized as Solar Dryers for copra and corn. There is also a corn mill located at barangay Bagumbayan which is privately operated.

3.0 Secondary Sector

This sector is composed of Manufacturing, Construction, Mining and Quarrying, and Electricity, Gas and Water Occupational Activities. Most trend of employment falls under the Construction with 261 in the labor force are employed followed by Electricity, Water and Gas with 93 are employed and Mining and Quarrying with 74 are employed.

Manufacturing

There are a meager small scale Manufacturing activities situated at the urban barangays of Poblacion (3)  and Bagumbayan (2) which are usually furniture  and tinsmith manufacturing. Employment are limited to family members or self-employment in nature.

Construction

This type of occupation shared an estimated 14.00% of the employed labor force brought about by public and private construction works. In public works, employment  takes placed in the construction works administered by the Local  Government Unit while in various construction contracts in somme nearby communities of the municipality.

Mining and Quarrying

Quarrying activities is undertaken at Barangays baraason and Tingintingin both in the interior barangays employing and estimated 4.00% of the employed labor force, of  course the local residents of the two (2) barangays.

Electricity, Gas and Water

The supplier of Lights, Power and Water of  the locality had their satellite offices in Kauswagan. The Lanao del Norte Electric Cooperative ( LANECO) has a Power Substation located at Barangay Bagumbayan and Collection Office at Barangay Poblacion. The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is establishing its local counterpart through the Kauswagan Water District with business office at Barangay Bagumbayan. Likewise a newly established Gasoline Refueling Station financed by Petron Corporation  is now operational. All of them employed about 5.00% of employed labor force.

4.0 Tertiary Sector

The Tertiary Sector is composed Wholesale / Retail Trade; Transportation, Storage and Communication; Community, Social and Personal Services; and Finance / Insurance / Real State & Business. The local labor force are employed to Wholesale / Retail & Trade (171); Transportation, Storage & communication (93); Community, Social and Personal Services (168); and Finance / Insurance / Real State & Business (171). See table 63 for detailed information.

Table No. 63

Distribution of Establishments

Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte : 2009