AkAP or Angat-kabuhayan sa Agrikultura Program is the name of the agricultural development program of the City Government of Calapan. Twelve (12) projects comprise AkAP, to wit:
1. Rice Seed Subsidy
2. Rice Seed Production
3. Integrated Focus Food Production
4. Urban Gardening
5. Organic Fertilizer Production
6. Livestock Production
7. Fisheries Development
8. Farm Mechanization
9. Post-harvest Facilities
10. Communal and Small Irrigation
11. Farm to Market Road
12. Marketing Assistance and Promotion

As the business, trade and commerce fluctuate in the now fast-urbanizing Calapan City, agriculture still remains a major source of income, especially to the large portion of the populace that depends on the tilled land for living. Thirty four (34) out of the sixty two (62) barangays of Calapan City are still classified rural, with constituents basically engaged in farming and related soil-based livelihood.

Calapan plays a major role in the Philippine economy as one of the major food suppliers in the country. The city is also a major exporter of rice supplying to Metro Manila and major parts of Luzon making it both an agriculturally-progressive and urbanized city. The five major crops are rice, citrus, banana, rambutan and lanzones.

To support the manpower and sustain productivity, the present administration is bent on maximizing the City’s agricultural potentials through programs as the Angat Kabuhayan sa Agrikultura Program (AKAP) benefitting farmers primarily and assisting farmers’ groups/associations like Calapan Farmer’s Mulit-purpose Cooperative (CALFAMCO). Modernisation of farming facilities and introduction of hybrid seeds likewise are practically the best measure to obtain high yields in less time and minimal labor.

But while the City has earned the reputation of being a top rice/palay producer in the Region and Oriental Mindoro, as “Food Basket” yet there are special concerns however with regards to the high prices of rice grains and of other agricultural products thus the Calapeños, primarily, who are in the “main banqueting table” do not enjoy the feast they should be accorded.

A very imminent danger to the City’s main agricultural lands and in general is the continuous operation of the present water concessionaire tapping the ground water to which the traditional farms have long depended for irrigation, thereby posing grave threat of saline intrusion which is destructive to crop production and to the total soil structure.