June 12: Happy (New) Independence Day, Philippines! Here’s “Ang Bagong Balangkas Na Bibliya Para Sa Magsasaka” (“Ang Bagong BBM”) Inspired By Secretary Of Agriculture William Dar. First-Of-Its-Kind In The Digital World!
(Image sources: “Pouring
knowledge” theblack&white, theblackandwhite.net; “sharing knowledge” Helpie WP, helpiewp.com; “BBM” New
York Post, nypost.com)
Sharing knowledge
– from science to the language of target sharers. Sharing knowledge even, or
especially if, it concerns a likely-to-be-impossible dream. Thus, candidate BBM
himself boldly promised or loudly aspired for a P20/kg rice during the presidential campaign, and here I am another
Ilocano to encourage him!
“The New BBM” is a genius Learning Bank sophisticated down to lift
up unsophisticated learners, unlike a Knowledge Bank, which
immediately tells you what to do! (Check out “IRRI Rice Knowledge Bank,” knowledgebank.irri.org.)
“The New BBM” helps you find out what you need by presenting,
in popular English initially, pertinent scientific knowledge as options
and/or opportunities. No robot-making! No brainwashing!
(In subsequent versions, “The New BBM” will be translated into culturally-important
Filipino languages – such as Bicolano, Bisaya,
Igorot, Ilocano, Muslim, Pangasinense, and Tagalog. If unavoidable, scientific terms will be used, patiently
explained.
“The New BBM” also means “The New Bible for Bolstering
Multiculture” – where “multiculture” is agriculture that emphasizes multiple
crops – as against monocrops that encourage chemical fertilizers generating
greenhouse gases generating Climate Change! That points you to organic methods.
Within “The New BBM” is the modern intellectual package
of Filipinos to the universe of Regenerative Agriculture – pro-healthy foods
and anti-climate change!
I’m basing “The New BBM” on a 19-year
old proposal by Secretary of Agriculture William
Dar that he called Open Academy
for Philippine Agriculture (OpAPA). He submitted OpAPA to Philippine
agriculture via PhilRice, and
PhilRice Director Leo Sebastian
recruited me to help flesh out OpAPA. And I did – I wrote a 198-page digital
book I called The Geography Of Knowledge (TGoK),
which drew the knowledge roadmap for PH Agriculture understandable by beginner
farmers who knew high school English – or their daughter/son studying. (I still
have a digital copy of TGoK.)
“The New BBM” is anybody’s intellectual guide – whether
you are conversant in farming looking for additional/new knowledge, or a non-farmer
who must learn her/his farming.
For instance, you type/spell out (as is)
hybrid rice
then press Search (or Enter). The
New BBM will instantly show you icons of
different varieties and/or names, planting methods, fertilizer choices, different
locations etc. When you click on an icon, you will be shown further choices (icons)
– such as if you click the icon for varieties, the new things you see
are hybrid varieties (names); when you press the icon for locations, you
are transported (by name) to different provinces in the Philippines.
“The New BBM” – an
exciting place to explore! “The New BBM” will be an exulting new intellectual
universe for me to help generate!@517
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