Pinoy Media 3 – Rappler, As PH Fightingest Journalists, How About Leading A PH Media Pack To Urge Millions Of Poor Filipino Farmers To Get Out Of Poverty On Their Own?

Read my title again – At first, it sounds impossible, right? Right! As a creative thinker, I say that if you are not challenged by the impossible, it is not a challenge at all!

My 3^rd attempt. Yes, I’m trying to convince PH media people to carry out a digital campaign that has been waged by none of PH media, individual or group of reporters: To get 3 million Filipino farmers out of poverty! President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr is not talking about it. All the more reason to pick up the cross and carry it!

I blogger am an independent journalist – we journalists should show we care about poverty. Especially about the millions of poor Filipino farmers who toil day and even night, and yet are rewarded with undeserved Very Low Returns from Very High Costs! Saving those millions from poverty is something we can do while we sit on our favorite chair – now, I’ m telling you!

The message to the farmers is simply this: “Low Costs, High Returns.” That, any farmer will understand easily. But we have to convince him to try it.

So we need a dedicated group of journalists, led by the fightingest and most-honored Rappler, to sell the idea of Regenerative Agriculture (RA), which comprises the following 13 practices:
(image from rappler.com)

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.

Any farmer can choose any of the 13 for her/his farming.

You or the farmers don’t have any idea about any of the 13? That’s why you should form a group dedicated to what I call “Regenerative Journalism” (Reg Journalism) and each of you becomes a Reg Journalist.

You need to form the group, so that you have the credibility to ask physically or digitallyabout any or all of the 13 RA practices from scientists in any of the following institutions : IRRI (located in Los Baños), PhilRice (Muñoz, Nueva Ecija), or UP Los Baños (Los Baños).

Remember, our current agriculture can be translated into this Economic Equation:

Very High Cost = Very Low Returns.

Repeat: BBM is talking only of low price of rice. And how do you get that except at the expense of farmers who have to deal with the high costs of growing rice! In that instance, BBM is not pro-farmer, only pro-rice consumer!

I just googled, and I see that American journalists are only starting to realize that RA is solution to Climate Change – they are not yet talking about Farmer Poverty.

Since nobody else is pro-farmer, let us PH journalists bind together and wage a communication campaign for Very Low Costs-Very High Returns Agriculture!

Campaigning with farmers to resolve their own poverty – Count me out – I have good thoughts but bad ears!@517