i’m
a blogger. “Filipino Writers” writes
about “Three Topics You Can Write About” (18 Feb 2025, Facebook): (1) Climate
Change, (2) Conflict, and (3) The
Global And The Hyperlocal. Thank you for those tips, ladies &
gentlemen, but I, I always write depending on my mood! (Well, I’m mostly always
on the mood.)
if you talk about
those millions of Filipino farmers, I’m always on the mood to listen – and then
write.
We go back to Filipino Writers who writes on “three
topics that you can write about”:
“Are you at a loss on which topics that you can
utilize in your writing?
“Here's three of them…
“1. Climate change: Many publications both in the
Philippines and in the world want strong works that focus on climate change
(and climate action).
“It can be ... an entire novel or something that's in
a different/experimental format altogether.”
“2. Conflict: … You can write a dramatic novel between
two lovers separated by war. You can write about the fictional exploits of
special operations operators, secret agents, and the common citizen…”
“3. The global and the hyperlocal: … It can be a love
story between a Filipino man and a Dutch woman..., the struggle of a Filipino
making it into the world stage…, or the intrigues of Filipino diplomats who try
to secure Philippine interests abroad…”
“Obviously, (all) this is not the be-all and end-all
for writing: Always write what your heart wants…”
I love that – “Always write what your heart wants.” Truth
to tell, I do that all the time!
Most of all, I
want to write about the 3 million or so Filipino farmers who are poor. As an
agriculturist (UPLB 1965), I see little reason for their poverty outside technology!
And that
hyper-enemy is? Chemical Agriculture! (CA).
Just look at what our farmers are applying on their crops – chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides. These CA concoctions
generate greenhouse gases (GHGs); in turn, the GHGs generate Climate Change!
Under Regenerative Agriculture (RA), I know 13
ways farmers can work out their lands and profit from it much – and the climate will profit much more
because there are no GHGs formed by their farming:
(1) Cover Cropping, (2) Crop
Rotation, (3) Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry), (4) Green Manuring, (5)
Intercropping, (6) Multiple Cropping, (7) No-Till Farming, (8) Organic
Fertilization, (9) Ratooning, (10) Rotational Grazing, (11) “Three Sisters”
Planting, (12) Trap Cropping, and (13) Trash Mulching.
How do farmers profit
from any of these 13 methods? The cost of farming under RA is way, way below the
PH10,000/ha under CA. Since there are no GHGs formed, I surmised that if the
whole world suddenly practiced RA, Climate Change will be gone in 7 years!@517
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