Above, below the left superimposed image, the headline says, “P2.6 Billion Released For Farmers, SMEs[1]” (Metro News Central). Released by Mr Dar, that is a small part of the huge amounts of DA assistances to the Filipino farmers.
The Filipino head is serving the Filipino farmers, not the least by seeking Du30’s support for the budgets, plural, to cultivate the cultivators of the soil.
And I celebrate as a cultivator of the mind.
It was Mr Dar who inspired me much to cultivate the minds of the Filipino aggie scientists to cultivate the minds of the Filipino farmersto become much more productive.
We first had a meeting of the minds literally in the digital world when at that time, 2003, he was stil Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, his proposal called Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture, OpAPA. That was the time 17 years ago I was a consultant at PhilRice, an agency under the DA. Inspired, with the idea of PhilRice as Webmaster, I wrote a digital book on how to implement OpAPA, 198 pages of it, that I titled The Geography Of Knowledge, TGoK. I submitted TGoK to PhilRice Director Leocadio F Sebastian, but nothing came out of it. PhilRice had no more use of me. (For ecopy, email me: frankahilario@gmail.com.)
Ah, but old soldiers never die – they just fade into the background. Today, that background has changed – it has become insistently digital. Above, the digital image (from Information Age[2]) is telling us:
What the mind discovers, the hands should apply!
The mind is where I have been working in and on and out of since I began to master my creative writing in 1965 when I was about to graduate from college. And the latest digital product that I have in mind right now fits into OpAPA:
a-Book Talk.
A book talks? It fills your eyes. It fills your mind.
It’s really Mr Dar’s OpAPA digital universe open to farmers via those freely downloadable a-Book Talks in handy sizes.
Any one of those a-Book Talks will be available instantly. Via your PC, you can download the entire book from OpAPA in complete pdf form, then print on your own. Or simply read. Each a complete publication in itself.
Here are hints to give you ideas about the contents of a single a-Book Talk:
Rice
Brief history, historical yields
Inbred rices, Hybrid rices
Varieties, strains – described, differentiated
Rices in regions – differentiating regions
Rainy season rices – expected yields
Dry season rices – expected yields
As Webmaster, I would see to it that the Language In is correct technically according to the experts – with the Language Out being popular, farmer’s.
Message in, Massage out!
Our farmers will be more intelligent deciding via books of options. Now is the time for all good men to come to the digital aid of their country!@517
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