Calling For An Unprecedented Soul-Shielding Simultaneously Soil-Saving Pro-ORGANIC Agriculture For The Philippines!

There is no denying that chemical agriculture (CA) is multiplying the miseries of farmers. Even granting that CA is not the enemy, organic fertilizer formulations are available, affordable, and triply advantageous in agriculture, including being appropriate for farmers to help fight climate change!

With the ongoing Russian-provoked armed conflict with Ukraine, I am definitely not worried that the supply of inorganic or chemical fertilizers has been universally bedeviled. Organic fertilizers will save us people yet.

When he became PH Secretary of Agriculture in August 2019, almost immediately William Darpronounced a policy of “balanced fertilization” as an appropriate response (“Balanced Fertilization For A Food-Secure Philippines – Secretary Dar,” DA.gov.ph). He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 4^th National Organic Agriculture Scientific Conference held 20 August 2019 at Cauayan, Isabela. That was welcome.

However, with the Russia-Ukraine imbroglio, and with climate change always hovering with dark clouds over our heads, I now propose to the Department of Agriculture (DA) this one:

Program for Reestablishing Optimal Organic Relationships Relating to Geography & Agricultural Actions as Natural Initiatives in Communities for Healthy Environment & Living in the Philippines (Pro-ORGANIC HELP).

Pro-ORGANIC HELP is in fact in pursuit of an advanced idea of Mr Dar himself that in 2003 he called Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture (OpAPA) that he submitted to PH agriculture authorities via PhilRice while he was still Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

I already have authored a book to help Pro-ORGANIC come alive digitally; I wrote it 19 years ago! This is The Geography Of Knowledge (TGoK), all 198 pages of it, in pdf, still intact. TGoK was designed to give birth to Mr Dar’s ICRISAT proposal he called OpAPA – unfortunately, OpAPA is now nowhere to be found except in human memory.

Agriculture, especially organic agriculture, should be in digital memory so that it is ready for access anytime all the time! That is the overall objective of Pro-ORGANIC HELP – and it should be available to and understandable by high school students who could then help their farmer parents search for and utilize the organic knowledge of the world. And yes, searchable by cellphone!

The above image is from my digital collection, what I now call “The Apple Of My Eye” image that I took off my faithful Lenovo Flex 2 laptop, a Windows 10 accidental collage, dated 01 May 2018. Reminding us of Adam’s Apple in the Garden of Eden:

I say to DA, if we return the soil to what it was like in the Garden of Eden, we will harvest Redemption from Climate Change!

With Pro-ORGANIC HELP in place, with agriculture visibly not only sustainable but regenerative in terms of Mother Nature and human wealth via organic agriculture, even the jobless and pitiable migrants eking out their wretched living in the city will be persuaded to go back to the villages because they know they will thrive there even just by cultivating a patch of ground.

Pro-ORGANIC HELP is pro-people, rich & poor alike!@517