Can You Find An Open-Hearted Publication Dedicated To Open-Hearted Agriculture (OA)? I Aim To Found An OA Magazine & Find OA Financing

Many politics-minded people talk above their heads conjuring with PH President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr of PhP20/kg rice and congratulating themselves on personal mirrors. This time, I want to talk about what I call the “Open-Hearted Mirror.”

What do I mean by “open-hearted?” Jamie Greenwood says Elizabeth Lesser says (Tiny Buddha, tinybuddha.com, source of above image):

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

That’s a lady quoting another lady – ah, but what I am proposing is for all, no sex preferences. Today, our agriculture is one of sadness because the heart is cold and careless – it cares so much more about achieving higher yields (for farmers) and lower buying prices (for consumers), and so much less about the farmers’ victory of returns over costs.

I will now compare my proposed OA Magazine and Manila Bulletin’s Agriculture Monthly (AgriMon – my coinage).

AgriMon publishes occasionally articles on organic farming, but most often, on inorganic (chemical) farming – if unaware. What that tells us is that either (1) the AgriMon Editor In Chief is not aware of the vital need for organic agriculture, and/or (2) s/he cares more about revenues for the magazine and less revenues for the farmers and even less returns in the fight against Climate Change – s/he does not know or does not understand the fact that chemical fertilizers and pesticides when applied generate greenhouse gases (GHGs), and the GHGs are the ones that generate Climate Change?

I am an agriculturist who cares much both about Farmer Poverty as well as Climate Change – and, having studied the matter, I believe that organic agriculture can solve Farmer Poverty and resolve Climate Change simultaneously!

I am reading the article by the current editor Yvette Tan: “Agriculture Magazine Celebrates Its 25^th Anniversary” that is dated 20 March 2022 (the magazine’s first issue was printed October 1997). Ms Yvette says, “The purpose of Agriculture magazine was, and remains, simple: ‘To help promote a more productive, more profitable and more sustainable agriculture.’”

But Ma'am, “sustainable agriculture” talks more about sustaining/improving yields and less about fighting against Farmer Poverty and against Climate Change!

Thus my pursuit of organic agriculture. Today, as a self-taught typewriter-aided aggie writer & editor since 1975, and self-taught digital publisher since 1994, I am thinking of coming out with the “OA Magazine” (Open-Hearted Agriculture Magazine). It will be produced by a Digital One-Man Band (DOMB). This DOMB fellow will perform all editing, desktop publishing and follow-up on a commercial print-on-demand printing.

Any financial sponsors interested?

OA Magazine will pay for articles both from solicited and unsolicited sources.

Anyone may submit an article for publication. Technical people can rewrite technical papers, using common people-friendly terms.

“Open-Hearted Agriculture.” Unfortunately, “Sustainable Agriculture” is no longer enough! The urgent intertwined need is to solve Farmer Poverty and resolve Climate Change – and this is through Organic Agriculture.@517