William Dar’s Legacy Of Thinking Blanked By Failure Of Extension In PH Agriculture! Outstanding Example: UP Los Baños Greets Everyone At The Campus Gate With 2 Giant Digital Screens, But Never For Upgrading Agriculture!
(top photo, cropped, taken by me 08 Sept 2018)
“I have seen the future. It’s in my browser,” says Ben Watts of Challenge Advisory (13 Sept 2018); I say, to help people
nowadays, you use social media, with which people can view and learn via cellphones
only. My alma mater failing in social media in the last 20 years, I am not
proud of UP Los Baños!
(“Media” image from Challenge Advisory, challenge.org)
The
so-called “Science Community of Los Baños” comprising of Asean Centre for
Biodiversity, PCAARRD, PhilRice Los Baños, IRRI, Searca and UPLB – what knowledge
works for agriculture did they do in the 2+ years that Mr Dar was Secretary of
Agriculture? Nothing much for PH Agriculture that I, an inveterate web browser
(human) know of. If the leader fails, the followers follow!
I have been paying attention to media releases, and I have
yet to encounter any item saying UPLB has any semblance of a digital library
for beginning & experienced farmers who want to proceed more intelligently
with available science for growing crops or raising livestock. Earlier, I had
written about this (01 June 2022, “My Proposal: Unlimited-Usable
Popular-Language Bank For Advancing Agriculture (UPLB for A2) – What You See
Right Now Should Be A Portent Of Things To Come!” Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com).
(I have already blamed the aggie journalists – see my essay
29 June 2022, “Journalists, Wake Up…” Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com.)
That Knowledge Bank “UPLB for A2” I suggested (above) has
gone unnoticed by any UPLB campus people in the whole of this month, June, That
tells me UPLB minds travel the information superhighway called the “Internet”
for their unlimited personal & educational interests but limited farmer
interests, not to further their knowledge in science – or that of people in
agriculture that the University can and should help.
The bottom image is an accidental collage of my photographs in
my Windows 10 Lenovo Flex2
laptop, with the time and date 13:43 Friday, 04 May (2018): Mr Dar is on top,
smiling radiantly. He has said separately on Facebook, about BBM as interim
Secretary of Agriculture: “I am one of the happiest Filipinos” (June 27); “Agri
will now be prioritized” (28 June).
Great! With PH President BBM on top of it, he himself will be
seeing what BASF has been telling all the world: “Farming is the biggest job on
earth”!@517
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