NAGA CITY, Camarines Sur: Mono-cropping and migration have contributed to the demise of upland traditional agricultural practices of Bicol’s indigenous peoples (IPs), a research project of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PRRI) in Los Banos, Laguna, showed.

Jacqueline Canilao of the PRRI said their research, titled Anthropological and Socio-economic Characterization of Bicol’s Agta Indigenous Peoples, began in 2012 and covered four IP communities in Albay and Camarines Sur provinces.