What I know is that “Vision” will tell you where you
want to go and “Mission” is how you go there, what you have to do to achieve
the Vision. (If you have no Vision, you have only DiVision among your
followers, sorry to say.)
(images: top from freepik, freepik.com;
bottom from bbmquotes.com).
Here is the very
first paragraph, and BBM talks about his favorite subject “rice” –
The hard lesson of this last year has made it very
clear that whatever current data proudly bannering our country as among the
best-performing in Asia, means nothing to a Filipino, who is confronted by the
price of rice at 45 to 65 pesos per kilo.
Aha! BBM’s success
as President, as according to him, is nothing when it comes to rice for the
Filipino consumers.
Ah, BBM Sir, the question of rice is not only about
the price per kilo but about the poverty of the Filipino farmer.
As an agriculturist, I am looking for a Vision of how
the farmers can rise from poverty to prosperity. (Well, all PH heads of
state have failed in this regard, including BBM’s father, President Ferdinand “FM” Marcos with his famous “Masagana
99” rice program.)
What are we going to do with the millions of poor
Filipino farmers?! BBM is still worried about “ating mga kababayang nabibigatan
sa presyo ng bigas” (“our countrymen burdened by the price of rice”) –
What about the millions of farmers burdened by poverty?
BBM says:
Totoo, puwersa ng merkado – sa ating bansa at maging
sa buong daigdig – ang siyang nagdidikta ng presyo. Bunsod ito, halimbawa, ng
giyera, problema sa supply, at puwersa ng kalikasan, tulad ng El Niño na
naranasan din sa ibang bansa. Subalit hindi na ito mahalagang alalahanin ng
ating mga kababayang nabibigatan sa presyo ng bigas.
My translation – (True,
force of the market – in our country and in the whole world – is what dictates
the price. This is brought about by, for instance, war, supply, and force of
Nature, such as “El Niño” that is also felt by other countries. But these are
not important to be considered by our countrymen burdened by the price of
rice.)
To BBM, the price
of rice is paramount. He does not want his poor countrymen to be bothered
by:Climate Change” – which he does not mention.
BBM does not
connect the price of rice, and the havocs caused by “El Niño” and “La Niña,”
with Climate Change – and Chemical Agriculture (CA) contributing much to
Climate Change with the greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated by chemical
fertilizers and chemical pesticides.
Stopping GHGs. We can do much combatting Climate Change and farmer poverty – with Regenerative Agriculture
(RA).
RA? BBM’s advisers
in Agriculture have much to find out!@517
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