Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 11333)
The official title is the "Philippine Agricultural Engineering Law."
Agricultural engineering is defined as the application of the fundamental and known principles of mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering to the peculiar conditions and requirements of agriculture as an industry and as a field of science.
The practice of agricultural engineering includes farm power and machinery, farm buildings and structures, farm electrification and farm processing, soil and water conservation (including farm irrigation and drainage, land clearing, flood control, soil erosion control), and education and research.
A registered professional agricultural engineer is a person duly registered with the Board of Examiners for Agricultural Engineers as provided under the Act.
The Board is composed of a Chairman and two members, appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments, each serving a term of three years.
Board members must be Filipino citizens, at least 30 years old, of good moral character, graduates of agricultural engineering or agriculture with a major in agricultural engineering, registered agricultural engineers with at least five years of practice, and not faculty members or financially interested in agricultural engineering schools.
Grounds include conviction for crimes involving moral turpitude, immoral or dishonorable conduct, insanity, fraud in obtaining registration, gross negligence or incompetence, addiction to alcohol or drugs, false or unethical advertisements, derogatory statements against other registrants, aiding unqualified persons, and violation of this Act or its regulations.
Foreign agricultural engineers are exempt from registration if they are called for consultation only, are attached to international bodies, belong to the Armed Forces of the US stationed in the Philippines, or employed as exchange professors in recognized schools, provided they do not engage in private practice.
Penalties include a fine between five hundred pesos to three thousand pesos, imprisonment from one month to two years, or both.
The examination covers farm mechanization (20%), soil and water conservation (20%), rural electrification and farm structures (20%), mathematics (10%), agronomy and animal husbandry (10%), farm economics and management (10%), and agricultural marketing and statistics (10%).