Wanted: EDEN LOANS Philippines! Encouraging Dedicated Entrepreneurial Niches Via Loans In Organic Agriculture Naturally Suited To The Philippines
That is why I have come out with a daring proposal for a P17 Billion Project of the DA that I call:
EDEN LOANS Philippines
(Encouraging Dedicated Entrepreneurial Niches Via Loans In Organic Agriculture
Naturally Suited To The Philippines)
The P17 Billion could
go to 170,000 individuals with P100,000
loans each. A modest proposal.
Consider. There is
no denying that (1) commercial fertilizers multiply farmers’ miseries, and (2) organic
fertilizer formulations are advantageous in agriculture, and appropriate for fighting
climate change!
When he became PH Secretary of Agriculture in August 2019,
almost immediately William Dar
pronounced a policy of “balanced fertilization” as an appropriate response (“Balanced
Fertilization For A Food-Secure Philippines – Secretary Dar,” DA.gov.ph).
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 4th National Organic
Agriculture Scientific Conference held 20 August 2019 at Cauayan, Isabela. That
was awesome.
However, with the Russia-Ukraine imbroglio, and with climate
change always hovering with dark clouds over our heads, I now propose to Mr Dar
this daring concept.
The EDEN LOANS budget is essentially for lending to finance
the organic farm undertakings of bolder/older souls in any crop & livestock
combination:
No
monocrops –
Crop diversification must be a basic requirement. Naturally, livestock
may be included in the combination.
No
plowing –
That is, no disk plowing of the soil will be allowed, as this destroys
the structure of the soil and necessitates further cultivation: harrowing etc.
Rotavation
encouraged –
As proven by personal experience of 50+ years of my brother-in-law Enso Casasos, the rotavator or
rototiller, driven by either the imported Howard 4-wheel or local hand tractor,
is the best machine for cutting up both soil and weeds simultaneously and
mixing them together in the same rotating motion, which creates what I call
WEALth – “Weeds-Enriched Automatic Layer of Trash Triggering Terrestrial
Health” – the beginning of your organic fertilizer already created and distributed
for you all over your field!
The above image is from my digital collection, what I now
call “The Apple Of My Eye” image I took off my faithful Lenovo Flex 2 laptop, a Windows
10 accidental collage, dated 01 May 2018. Reminding us of Adam’s Apple
in the Garden of Eden:
I
dare say, if we return the soil to what it was like in the time of Adam &
Eve, we will see the rise of a New Eden by negating Climate Change!
With the DA Program “Eden LOANS Philippines” in place, with agriculture
visibly not only sustainable but regenerative in terms of Mother Nature and
human wealth via organic agriculture, then even the jobless and pitiable
migrants in the city will be persuaded to go back to the villages because they
know they will thrive there even just by cultivating a patch of ground.
Then
will rise in this archipelago The New Garden of Eden!@517
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