A New Year, A New Hope. To celebrate I have this new blog Adda Ani, Adu Kita – the name is a take-off from the slogan of the new PH Agriculture with the innovative leadership of Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie: "Masaganang Ani, Malaki Ang Kita" (Abundant Harvest, Rich Income, my new translation). That comes with his "New Thinking for Agriculture" with the embedded 8 paradigms to put thoughts into technologies & systems: 1) Modernization of Agriculture, (2) Industrialization of Agriculture, (3) Promotion of Exports, (4) Farm Consolidation, (5) Infrastructure Development, (6) Higher Budget & Investments for Agriculture, (7) Legislative Support, and (8) Roadmap Development.
The whole idea is abundance, richness, profusion, wealth, prosperity for everyone. (Thank you Shutterstock[1] for the opulent word cloud!)
Today, only when you have more in harvest do you have more in income. The relationship is physical: If you have more to sell, you have more to earn. It is the merchant who gains much from the value chain; the poor farmer remains poor while the merchant gets richer!
I say, if PH Agriculture have farmers' associations, coops that truly work for their welfare, then:
Adda Ani, Adu Kita!
In 4 words, in Ilocano, that defines true entrepreneurship! It means:
As long as you have a harvest, you are assured of much income deserving of your labors!
Get A Harvest, Get More!
Your Grains, Your Gains. That is to say, so much grains, so much more gains – so much harvest, so much more income.
How does it work? Simple. Whatever you harvest, you are assured of getting more than the usual, because marketing is in the hands of the producers themselves, not merchants.
This is The New Economics, I dare say. Actually, it's old economics – minus the Merchants of Venice.
Adda Ani, Adu Kita – How do we assure that?
We get the merchants out of the picture, then we get the new merchants in – the producers, the group of farmers themselves, which will work in their favor. I favor the Coops, not the Farmer Associations. By and large, each coop is well-organizedand has a Board that ensures fairness; by and large, each association has a dictatorialPresident.
I love the idea of Common Service Facilities, CSF, of the Department of Agrarian Reform, the DAR, that I came across with when I was a consultant for a UMIC project with the DAR, with UPLB Professor Rene Rafael C Espino as Project Leader – the CSF was lodged in a selected cooperative where all the equipment could be found, not distributed among members of the coop or farmer association. For good management, the equipment must be under complete control.
How does the coop with the CSF assure Adda Ani, Adu Kita? Economies of scale. What about the package of technologies to use? The coop must see to it that the member farmers practice the package of technologies that the coop has proven or believe to be good for the coop members.
New Year, New Hope. Have this harvest, have this much more income!@517
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