I’m Hoping NEDA Head Arsenio Balisacan Sees That As You Bring About Prosperity Of Organic Farming, Automatically You Bring About Poverty Of Climate Change

How can anyone escape poverty? I know of 2 ways. One, more outputs from same inputs. Two, more outputs from less inputs. That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I wanted him to say.

NEDA Secretary General Arsenio M Balisacan spoke at the “43rd National Conference of Employers” organized by the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, held at the Marriott Hotel, Pasay City (24 Aug 2022, “Ramping Up Philippine Economic Growth And Inclusion: Near And Medium-Term Prospects Amid The Headwinds,” NEDA, neda.gov.ph):

The Philippines… is today the best-performing economy among major ASEAN members. In 2021 and the first half of 2022, our economy grew the fastest, indicating that the recovery of our high-growth trajectory in the past decade has been quite robust.

That is excellent news!

The Marcos Administration is well aware of our economy’s domestic and external risks. These include factors that could disrupt our food supply, including elevated commodity and input prices aggravated by geopolitical and trade tensions, the spread of infectious animal diseases, inclement weather, and issues in global value chains. The slowdown of major trading partners and the emergence of new public health concerns may also result in weaker demand for goods and services worldwide.

That is excellent warning!

Mr Balisacan says “The 8-Point Socioeconomic Agenda, covering both short-term and medium-term issues, sets the tone for the Administration’s priorities, policies, and programs.” Thus: “The… Agenda’s objective is to reinvigorate job creation and poverty reduction by steering the economy back to its high-growth trajectory.”

“Poverty reduction” via “high-growth trajectory” – thinking of Agriculture, I take that further to mean, thinking of what President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr is referring to when he says “poverty reduction” among poor farm families:

High-growth trajectory options in Agriculture:
Option A: Is BBM pushing for more outputs from same inputs? Or,
Option B: Is BBM pushing for more outputs from less outputs?

In Agriculture, which is my field (BSA, UP Los Baños ’'65), I want to support BBM not in pursuing Option A but in pursuing Option B.

The essay I blogged yesterday, “How We Filipinos Can Produce Rotavators Cheaply, Make Our Soils & Farmers Richer Automatically – And Make Climate Change For The Better!” (25 Aug 2022, Towards A New Eden, towardsaneweden.blogspot.com), recommends 2 things simultaneously being done:

Push for higher farm outputs from almost zero inputs; at the same time,
Push the generation of greenhouse gases to zero while at the same time push the production of healthy farm produce and hefty farm incomes!

Organic Agriculture Prosperity would appear simultaneously with Climate Change Poverty! I propose to create this magic by Science & Technology all over the islands via Agriculture by inventing a revolutionary PH-original rotavator that I call “OrganicMaker” – it cultivates the field and simultaneously creates an organic layer of trash all over. Thus, OrganicMaker enriches the soil – and enriches the farmer. Zero chemical fertilizers, zero greenhouse gases: Poor Climate Change!

Today, my invention awaits an investor – Mr Ramon Uy, your patriotism is my command!@517