Pinoy Media 2 – Thinking Ahead For Pinoy Media To Preach The Gospel Of Regenerative Agriculture That Is Good For The Millions Of Poor Filipino Farmers!

To begin with, let us look at the concept of “regeneration” with the image above (from edwardlundwall.blogspot.com) – renewed, redeemed, restored. When we do any of the 13 practices under Regenerative Agriculture (RA) (see list below), Mother Nature is the one that does the regeneration, so the farmer’s field and crop are both renewed, redeemed and restored literally! (Thank you very much, Edward F Landwall! for the image.)

Pinoy Media – Let me call your would-be media campaign “Regenerative Journalism” (Reg Journ). This follows my earlier advice (20 Sept 2024, “Pinoy Media, Attention Please! Including The Fightingest Rappler, You Have Ignored 2M+ Filipino Farmers In Their Poverty!,” Communication For Development Of Vibrant Villages, blogspot.com).

Reg Journ – Pinoy media could band together for a project – to inform and encourage the millions of poor Filipino farmers to adopt any of the 13 practices under the concept of “Regenerative Agriculture.”

Suggestion to Pinoy media – for your journalists to learn more about Regenerative Agriculture (RA), first you form a committee, say “Journalists For Farmers Out-Of-Poverty Committee,” and discuss how this journalists’ poverty committee will go about this campaign from zero point.

If only digitally, you will need to listen to science experts from either IRRI (in Los Baños), or PhilRice (Muñoz, Nueva Ecija), or UP Los Baños (Los Baños), or all of the above, about these 13 practices belonging to Regenerative Agriculture:

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
13, Trash Mulching.

Nota bene: “Listening” to those science experts does not require that they be physically present within hearing distance – their talks (and your subsequent consultations with them), can and should be recorded digitally so that their advice can be repeated anytime without their physical presence. It is their knowledge that you require, not their bodily appearance.

Remember always: Each of those 13 –

(1) requires no chemical fertilizer because it restores the native fertility of the soil, which is more than enough;
(2) requires no chemical pesticide because the native fertility gives to the soil and crop the natural resilience to ward off pests and diseases;
(3) requires no or very little irrigation water;
(4) requires very little cost compared to current farming of any crop;
(5) requires very little expertise in farming, because once the planting has been done, Mother Nature takes over.

I just googled now and the World Economic Forum is saying (weforum.org):

“Regenerative agriculture focuses on improving the health of soil, which has been degraded by the use of heavy machinery, fertilizers and pesticides in intensive farming.”

To each his own. Regenerative Journalism should be easy because the journalist is expected to share information what science says, while the expert is expected to explain the science.

(If the journalist doesn’t understand anything, s/he should ask a scientist – or google for more information.)@517