Food for every house and dining table, survivalism, self reliance. Securing food supply for the future population growth. Averting famine and starvation.
The fad now is for organic farming. However outputs from organic farming is very low. Inputs are very expensive, and so with the selling price.
What is worse is that we cant believe self serving claims that their produce is organic.
I know of two organic farmers: one was a batchmate in elementary with farm in Jalajala, and the other batchmate in College with farm in Calamba City. They are both selling their farms.
What do you think? Would you go into organic farming?
1. Henry's Merit group that discovered at the cost of P500 million of family fortune of the SL 8 rice variety that yielded 300 cavans of rice per hectare, much higher than the vaunted Masagana 99.
2. This post came across the high yield corn variety produced by a multinational based in South Cotabato.
The claimed yield was 16 metric tons per hectare.
These reported discoveries and innovation could easily have upped our agricultural productivity. A credit facility in the country or even those that are in rice producing provinces could have easily upped agricultural productivity. This post supposed that these discoveries did not gain traction because there was no DWIFM for people running the show The SL 8 rice varieties distribution to farmers was discontinued after the new President took charge.
As for the corn. Maybe because it was from a multinational well known for GMO....
What is the choice healthy option first or agricultural productivity. For an LDC to act like a well developed country....
"Food for every ones table and every homes"
It is more fun criticizing
Food security in the Philippines
We think the govt is strict about food security. We are a developer and they are very slow on acting
on land conversion.
More can be done regarding food security:
1. Supply and demand projection, and planting and production schedules
2. Tariff protection
3. Improvement of infrastructures: and inputs:
1. fertilizer and seeds
2. Fingerlings, piglets, and cattle
3. Strengthening what exists and making them work
4. Cold storage
5. Solar pumps
6 Post harvest facilities
7. Supply chain
8. MBA in Agri courses
4. Scientific farming:
1. Greenhouses, with irrigation
2. High value added crops
3. Hydrophonics and drip
5, Corporate farming
It is good that some big companies like MVP group are paying attention to food security. However their is with high value coco products: MCTs and buko juice.
Finally Jollibee Food Corporation chicken plant made profit
The CP farms of Thailand have been doing good in the Philippines
