Beyond the simplistic logo of the Department of Agriculture, DA, these times we need multiplicity not only of food choices but also of ready resources!
All of PH Agriculture should be ready for all that clustering.
So now I will campaign for more Cluster Success Stories. After all, it’s the community that is all-important, not the single standouts.
Regarding the so many billions and millions of pesos being offered by the DA to the Filipino farmers to not only to survive but thrive during and especially after all these coronavirus lockdowns, the Filipino farmers as a whole must know now that they will be held hugely accountable.
Beggars cannot be choosers!
My advice:Practice The New 7 Arts (Rs) of War Against PH Farmer Poverty – via Strategic Clustering.
(1) Responsibility.
Each region must be responsible for its own pandemic war preparations. They must have a master plan on how to spend those billions of pesos.
(2) Reorganization.
Filipino farmers are organized, disorganized, and non-organized. I recommend the multi-purpose cooperative with everything: loans, farm equipment, technologies, systems, postharvest processing facilities, warehousing, and marketing assistance. It is the members of the board of the coop who are responsible to the people, not simply a dictatorial Association President or a charlatan.
(3) Remembrance.
Filipino farmers must not forget about the heirloom varieties that our forefathers had raised, especially in rice. These are valuable not only for the sake of history but for the sake of yield given the native productivity of the land. And they also remind us that left alone the Earth is rich by itself.
(4) Rebuke.
Filipino farmers must now be rebuked in seeking usurious loans and actively assisted not only in obtaining affordable loans but also on how to spend them for what, when, and how. This is one of the main reasons I prefer a multi-purpose coop to any association or credit cooperative.
(5) Revitalization.
We as a nation must help revitalize the spirit of the Filipino farmer from a lowly toiler of the soil because of lack of education or resources. Precisely! Via government, modern agriculture should provide the farmers the science as well as the financial assistances, plural, they need to raise honorable lives. Don’t forget to enlist the youth!
(6) Research.
As a cluster themselves, researchers must actively contributute to the growth of Agriculture, not simply conduct R&D & publish papers! They must continue to come up with new and/or improved knowledge for extensionists to disseminate.
(7) Retrenching hopes.
Finally, let me emphasize that farmers should abandon dreams of farming making their families richer while others remain poor, just like the single stories coming out of the media every now and then. These are not the Times for The Filipino Farmer Dreamer in Singularity – these are the Times for The Filipino Farmer Dreamers in Community!
Clustering:
All For One, One For All!@517
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