Pinoy Media 1 – Attention Please! Including The Fightingest Rappler, You Have Ignored 2M+ Filipino Farmers In Their Poverty!

Reality: The fighting digital Philippine media have so far ignored the plight of millions of poor Filipino farmers by not featuring them and/or reporting on their sad plight for ages and ages.

Do Pinoy media care about farmer poverty? Not that I have read – and I am a digital hound; self-inspired as a son-of-a-farmer blogger since the year 2000.
(sources: top image from pace.org.ph, bottom from youtube.com)

Really: Should I be surprised with media apathy about the poor farmers? No. A blogger and digital hound in the last 25 years, I know that in the last 40 years, would you believe! – no one from so many PH media, and no one from PhilRice, neither from UP Los Baños, nor from IRRI, has come out for and/or managed a campaign local or national for farmers to practice Regenerative Agriculture (RA); they do not know that RA decreases much farming costs and increases much farming returns!?

I don’t know why they don’t know.

On his birthday, PH President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr himself did not talk about raising the millions of farmers from poverty to prosperity, only about “improved lives” (see my article, “Marcos’ Wish On His 67th Birthday 13 Sept 2024, ‘Improved Lives Of Filipino Farmers’ – Hilario’s Wish, ‘Raising Farmers From Poverty To Prosperity’ As An Ilocano Son Of A Farmer,” Communication For Development Of Vibrant Villages, blogspot.com).

We have to help farmers enjoy more than improved lives – they must prosper!

We need to think more, wider and higher.

Repeat: At the moment, not a single national or international institution in the Philippines has come out with a program on Regenerative Agriculture (RA) –
(1) not PCAARRD,
(2) not PhilRice,
(3) not IRRI, and
(4) not UP Los Baños.

I challenge those 4 big institutions in agriculture, national and international, to come out with at least one national program on RA!

Anyway, here I am, a UPLB alumnus, agriculturist (BSA major in Ag Edu 1965) – and I have been blogging about Regenerative Agriculture since at least 2019.

Why am I so in love with Regenerative Agriculture? I love it that RA
enriches the soil,
enriches the harvests,
enriches the farmers, as well as
enriches the consumers, as the food grown is naturally healthy.

Back to the media. Now then, I am calling on the PH digital publishing media to support a public campaign by its online pages for a regeneration of PH agriculture!

Yes, there was a Pinoy Media Congress organized by the ABS-CBN Corporate Communications for the Philippine Association of Communication Educators (PACE) held 25-26 July 2024 (news.abs-cbn.com).

“The event, organized by the ABS-CBN Corporate Communications, provided numerous networking opportunities, allowing educators to share insights and experiences, enhancing the overall learning experience.”

Nothing mentioned about the poor Filipino farmers!

As an independent thinker, I am challenging the fightingest Rappler to come out with its media program to help solve the poverty of millions of Filipino farmers. For a change – No bad words necessary, just positive promoting.
Wake up, PH media!@51