Filipinos, If You Love Your Country, Don’t Just Sit There And Wish The Farmer Poverty Would Go Away! Me, I Wish BBM Would Reappoint William Dar As Secretary Of Agriculture – And Support His New Vision For PH Agriculture!

Now he knows he made a mistake – Pres Ferdinand BBM Marcos dismissing William Dar as Secretary of Agriculture in 2022: 2 years later and millions of our farmers are still poor, if not poorer!

The Manila Times has made a continuing mistake too – not having a separate media, or at least section, on PH Agriculture.

Above, from me this article, “Secretary William Dar Starts To Map The Chaos Of PH Agriculture” (Greenfields Journalism, blogspot.com) – but the Times has never started to fully, 100% map the chaos of Philippine Agriculture and help farmers rise from the disarray by at least dedicating a whole Times section on it!

To be fair, not a single one of PH’s digital media is dedicated to mapping PH Agriculture from Chaos to System, from Cultures to Symmetry.

Here is The Manila Times display online:

OPINION. NEWS. REGIONS. WORLD. BUSINESS. SPORTS. ENTERTAINMENT. LIFESTYLE. THE SUNDAY TIMES

Manila Times, how about putting “AGRICULTURE” as your first section in that list? That would be like you saying this time, “Merry Christmas to our millions of farmers!”

Did you know that 30% of PH labor force is in agriculture (custommapposter.com)?

“The concentration… of poverty in the country is found in the agriculture sector… The agriculture sector… has not been an effective engine of social growth and human development” (“Towards Liberation From Debts Of Filipino Farmers (2024),” Custommapposter, custommapposter.com).

And? How can the Times live with that?!

So, how about this time, Manila Times?
Let’s change the times!

Some 8 years ago, Manila Times’ digital pages itself, I was writing and following the story of PH Agriculture (see image above) under the inspiration of William Dar who became Secretary of Agriculture (Aug 2019). He called his leadership “The New Thinking For Agriculture” and comprised the following:paradigms that also make up the “new thinking” for agriculture. The eight paradigms are:

Modernization of agriculture;

Industrialization of agriculture;

Promotion of exports;

Farm consolidation;

Roadmap development;

Infrastructure development;

Higher budget and investments for agriculture; and

Legislative support.

Mr Dar’s leadership of PH Agriculture was groundbreaking, to say the least – but The Manila Times did not see it like that, and I was in no position to persuade media management to dedicate a new section for PH Farming. Mr Dar had taken me in as a “Writer From Home” to help propagate the new farming efforts nationwide.

This time, it’s different. I now foresee the need for farming with new farming efforts – Regenerative Agriculture (RA)!

So, I want to convince The Manila Times to open a daily page on PH Agriculture. Other columnists can continue with their agriculture, but I will focus on RA because it’s:

VLC=VHR – that is, Very Low Costs = Very High Returns.

Today’s farming formula is the exact opposite:

VHC=VLR: Very High Costs = Very Low Returns!

And yes, I am urging BBM to reappoint William Dar as Secretary of Agriculture!@517