Who Are We?

The DTI-CARP's SMITTDP is primarily in support of the government's thrust towards economic development of the countryside through rural industrialization. It shall, primarily, work for the realization of these objectives:

1. To tap the idle manpower of farmer-beneficiaries and their immediate families thereby stimulating industrial activity in the countryside; and
2. To harness the landowners' land compensation toward investments in viable industrial projects in their respective communities, municipalities, provinces and/or regions, thereby providing local employment opportunities and ultimately spurring countryside development
   

We abide with the following principles:

1. The socio-economic development of the agrarian reform beneficiaries in the priority agrarian refom communities is of central importance. All program activities and projects shall directly benefit the farmers, affected landowners and their families; and
2. The DTI-CARP shall be consistent with the focus of the Department of Trade and Industry