Down Farmer Poverty!
Up Farmer Prosperity!
To fight poverty, “Media 13,” PH media, I
beg 13 of you to individually and/or commonly convince the PH Department of Agriculture (DA) to adopt
officially the 13 practices under the concept of Regenerative
Agriculture (RA) and to assign PhP 13 million to
the whole “Media 13 Program.” Note: Where
“media” means is (1) “tool for communication” such as radio, tv; (2) “material or
method for growing something” such as soil, system, and technology (my
examples). Each of the 13 practices under RA contains the media for growing a
crop – the soil plus the weeds and/or crop refuse.
I think of each of my “Media 13” as a medium
reinforcing the positive, as do indeed the 13 practices under RA:
(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.
What about “13” as an unlucky number? Natalie Grice says in, “Why Do We Still
Avoid The Number 13?” 13 June 2024, BBC, bbc.com): “(Cardiff
University lecturer Dr Juliette Wood)
believes it is essentially a media creation.” Media, you cannot
be afraid of your own creation!
So, why don’t 13
media from the Philippines demand that the DA explain to the public why the
department is silent about Regenerative Agriculture!
On the other hand, Pinoy media, let us convince the radical
farmers and their sympathizers to demonstrate, not in the streets with placards
and thereby endangering themselves physically – that’s not intelligent. But to demonstrate
for what they need to rise from poverty, using science – that’s
intelligent!
(Image sources: top, dreamstime.com; bottom ph.pinterest.com)
Think like this – Forget the expensive
chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides (comprising Chemical Agriculture) that they have
been using.
Instead, think of Very Low Costs-Very
High Returns (VLC-VHR) farming, via Regenerative
Agriculture. No, you have not heard of
Regenerative Agriculture (RA), of course! Not even the heads of our PH
Department of Agriculture (DA) want to talk about it! That tells us they are
interested in their jobs, but not so much in
serving the farmers, especially the poor!
From Poverty, the path to Prosperity is (I
repeat from above): Very Low Costs with Very High Returns (VLC-VHR).
Let Media 13 call on the militants to demonstrate
in the name of millions of poor Filipino farmers not against but to call the
attention of the sleeping Philippine Rip Van Winkle-like Secretary of
Agriculture Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr!
And how will the militants demonstrate
their call for the PH government to elevate the farmers from poverty to
prosperity? Good question!
Needed, MAN –
Media Action Now!@517
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