IN his SONA and post-SONA speeches, President Bongbong Marcos has noticeably taken a more proactive posture on how to rebuild a broken agricultural sector. His marching order to his DA subalterns—“consolidation, modernization, mechanization and improvement of value chains.” Boosting agricultural production through the foregoing interrelated programs is “augmented by timely…
IN his SONA and post-SONA speeches, President Bongbong Marcos has noticeably taken a more proactive posture on how to rebuild a broken agricultural sector. His marching order to his DA subalterns—“consolidation, modernization, mechanization and improvement of value chains.” Boosting agricultural production through the foregoing interrelated programs is “augmented by timely and calibrated importation, as needed,” added the President.
To complete the picture on its seemingly newfound agricultural policy activism, Malacañang made a dramatic announcement on the debt of agrarian reform beneficiaries. Around 600,000 ARBs are supposed to be liberated from P60 billion worth of debt, a major hurdle in the efforts of these farmers to secure land titles and make the land more productive.
Foremost among these is the missing farmer empowerment program. Dr. Ted Mendoza, one of the country’s leading agronomists and scientists explained that the government’s agricultural revival program will not take off if the farmers are not buying into the program. This is similar to what is happening in a number of modernizing industrial enterprises.
Another important empowerment measure is the skilling-reskilling of farmers. The Local Autonomy Law devolved extension services to the LGUs, most of which were not prepared to assume the task of mobilizing farmers in support of agricultural modernization. The success of agriculture in the developed countries is partly due to their investments on human resources development.
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