BBM Sir, We Also Need To Create A Brave New World For Agri Journalism – We Need A “Baro a Bibliya Basaen Mannalon” (“Baro a BBM”) – “New Broad Bible for Multiculture” (“New BBM”)

Your inaugural address as 17^thPresident of the Philippines at the national museum at noon today, Thursday, 30 June 2022 – as a whole: Beautiful speech! Noted: You make it a point that to move the country forward, depends on you and us.

BBM Sir, you said:

I am here to tell you about our future. A future of sufficiency, even plenty of readily available ways and means to get done what needs doing – by you, by me. We do not look back, but ahead. Up the road that we must take to a place better than the one we lost in the pandemic.

“A future of sufficiency” – among others, we will need all the intelligent efforts of our farmers. PH Agriculture is not producing enough food because:

To achieve food sufficiency, we must get our farmers to apply enough of the Arts and Sciences of Agriculture. That basically calls for a dynamic Agri Journalism, backed by a Digital Library of Agriculture. Today, we lack both!

I’m thinking of that digital library in 2 languages. In Ilocano, it’s “Baro a Bibliya Basaen Mannalon” (“Baro a BBM”); in English, it’s “New Broad Bible for Multiculture” (“New BBM”) – “Multiculture” insinuating crops & livestock mixes, excellent for agriculture and the environment, especially contra climate change.

I have to introduce myself. I am Frank A Hilario, the “Father of Agri Journalism,” as UP Los Baños alumnus Reynaldo Mendoza points out on Facebook. I did not realize that until today; yes, I am the “Father of the Binhi Awards” [check out my essay, “Journalists, Wake Up! Philippine Agricultural Journalists (PAJ), You Have Been Slipping On The Job. Frank A Hilario, Father Of “Binhi Awards” Proposes New “Ani Awards” For You To Further Serve Science To Serve Farm Families To Bring Themselves To Prosperity!” (29 June 2022, Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com]. I fathered the “Binhi Awards” in 1976, and “Ka Doroy” Valencia God-fathered it.

BBM Sir, particularly, you said in your speech:

Yet there is more out there. Like going forward by new ways of doing, that the pandemic forces [us] to adopt, a stronger resilience, quicker adaptability.

In your hope of making our country successful, your hope is my hope. And in our hope for our brighter future and the futures of our children, your hope is my hope.

Sir, the digital library I am proposing is for the brighter future of Agriculture – through intellectual efforts of government-financed state universities & colleges, led by UP Los Baños, translating technical language into high schooler-understandable language; the highschoolers will then inform their fathers.
(“Women in food” image from IFAJ, linkedin.com)

I propose to be the brains behind Baro a BBM/New BBM, being the son of a farmer in Asingan, Pangasinan, and an alumnus of UP Los Baños.

With a digital library for agriculture, agri journalists will help our farmers win the war for prosperity. (A woman could start the ball rolling, yes!)@517