DBM Releases P2.46 Billion For Rice Funding – The First Is Always The Best!

Yesterday, we were anxiously lost in paradigms!

Today, we are in awe in paradigms regained!

Billions, yes! The good news comes from the Office of Agriculture Secretary William Dar/Manong Willie. The DA Bulletin "DBM Releases P2.460 Billion For RCEF" says:

The Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) is now in motion with the release of P2.460 billion for two of its component programs.

The Department of Budget & Management (DBM), through the Agricultural Credit & Policy Council, released P244 million to the Development Bank of the Philippines and P180 million to the LandBank of the Philippines for the RCEF-Credit Program to be loaned out to individual farmers and DA-accredited cooperatives and associations.

For the RCEF-Seed Program, the DBM also released to the DA-Philippine Rice Research Institute P2.038 billion to promote, acquire, and distribute certified seeds of NSIC Rc222, Rc160, Rc216 and 16 other location-specific varieties in the region. Farmers listed in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) may now receive the seed support.

The 2 component programs of the RCEF now have seed money! These are the RCEF-Credit Program (P424 million). and the RCEF-Seed Program (P2.038 billion). (image of "budget" from bizmonthly.com)

So! The pesos will begin falling into places!

Following the roadmap advice of Manong Willie, we are now riding on the first bus travelling to the first paradigm. That:

#1, Modernization must continue.

So, a total of P424 million in loans will be going to deserving individual farmers as well as DA-accredited cooperatives and associations.

I say, "Wow!"

This will dry up the soil cultivated by the usurers and their 5-6 schemes in any manner, shape or form. Finally, the rewards of honest labor will go to the honest worker and not the dishonest merchant and the blood-sucking usurer.

Thank you, thank you for the RCEF!
Don't forget that RCEF means
Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund.

PH rice is forced to compete with imported rices from the Asean because they are much cheaper. Consider the costs of production:

PH: P12/kilo
Vietnam: P8/kilo
Thailand: P6/kilo.

How in the world can PH rice cost double Thai rice?!

That is why the #1 paradigm called for is: Modernization. Thanks to Manong Willie's Eight Paradigms for the New Thinking for PH Agriculture, of which I have produced a 269-page literary-literal ebook titled in paradigms lost, in paradigms regained (see below half of image). (You can ask for your free copy: frankahilario@gmail.com.)

Did someone remember to fund my favorite 2 programs? Yes.

Funds for the mechanization and extension services program(s) will be available soon.

Here are 4 wasteful practices of farmers that cost them much money without them realizing it:

(1) Transplanting rice helter-skelter.

(2) Broadcasting fertilizer by hand all over the field.

(3) Spraying pesticide by schedule, not need.

(4) Traditional harvesting and sun-drying.

The DA should insist on the non-observance of (1) to (3). For (4), the DA can schedule some combine threshers to be on call harvest-time.

Then, when we make PH farming rewarding,
our youth will want to engage in it big!@517