P122-B Aggie Budget – Pro DA But Not Pro-Poor Farmers

Definitely, PH is not poor. Mario Casayuran says "Senate OKs Proposed P122-B Budget For DA" (08 December 2018, Manila Bulletin, news.mb.com.ph). "The approval of the DA budget followed a sponsorship speech by Villar and a subsequent floor debate." I'm 100% sure they did not debate on the Vision for Agriculture. There is none! There is only Rice Self-Sufficiency. That is not a Vision; that is only a Goal. 

It takes a village. A Vision for P122 Billion to make me happy would be nothing less than

Prosperous farmer villages in
Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao!

Unless you make the farmers self-reliant, not only self-sufficient, and sustainable, you will never get his family out of poverty. even if you spent P122,000,000,000 in only 365 days.

All that will be encouraging still Gross Domestic Product, GDP, not Gross Domestic Prosperity, GDP². One for the already rich, one for the long-time poor. (You can read my essay here, "The Innovation Paradox Of World Bank. Time To Learn GDP²," 16 November 2017, Asean Loves, blogspot.com). GDP² is shared prosperity that GDP is not.

Congress should require the DA to come up with a National Vision. Unless they come up with a National Vision, the DA will spend all those billions sightlessly!