Why farmers leave farming the farm? (why agriculture could be on the decline)

"Food for every ones table and every homes"

The common answers are:

1.  Farming is hard;

2.  You do not earn much in farming and pests and typhoons wipe out the little that you earned;

3.  Young people want the good life:    night life, office work, not dirty and back breaking at the farm

Many have not explained that since food is a necessity and prices are better, there could be millions in farming.   Prices of rice, coffee, chocolate is better.  And there are agriforestry that brings in millions:   bamboo, cassava, sweet potatoes, flowers.  No one is taking the lead, and explaining these to the farmers and young people

In a forum where PBBM was asked this question, (this post doesnt know whether he was still the DA sec,)  he failed to explain fully well the arguments in favor of agriculture

I want agri to be the next trajectory of my life in the next 30 years.   MVP and the rest are pursuing agri as the next big thing

Output of CLSU in Munoz City Nueva Ecija needs to be exploited

Rizal Philippines   | September 6, 2014






Several years back, I was invited by a  business partner who is member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, upon invitation of then President GMA to find out business opportunities in  agriculture.  We thus visited CLSU and Phil Carabao Center and Philrice.  It was rather surprising that many of the work of CLSU have been unutilized by the rest of the agricultural community

We were surprised that a good % of what we consider beef are actually carabeef.  Our experience with carabao meat has been unpleasant because the law prescribes that only 13 year old or above carabaos can be slaughtered for meat.  But young carabaos from India are as good as any beef.