While this post was teaching part time at GSB, he had opportunity to join a group of Filipino Chinese businessmen to visit a carabao institute, Agri School and Rice Institute in Central Luzon. Indeed there were a lot of opportunities presenting themselves during the field trip: beef substitute from Buffalo Buffalis, Mosarella cheese from milk of said carabao, new rice varieties, other new plant strains, post harvest facilities. agri implements developed at the SU.
The scientific work on the other hand did not have commercial applications. The students, and or the university did not have means and resources to monetize their inventions. (And then some wise guys then that the govt did not provide funds or resources to the invention. Yes. The government does no have all the answers. We private citizens can research the answer
While we talk about: food security, agricultural productivity,, nothing concrete was being undertaken to put the resources together. Collab. Shared faculties, and or shared curriculum Why not collab between the GSB and the academic institutions in Central Luzon. I broached the ideas to the higher ups at GSB but since they were busy with existing programs Each instution has life of its own or should we say own
inertia.
And then some wise guys drum beat why we are not helping famers, why we are not doing about increasing agricultural productivity
Why are farmers not benefitting from value created from their produce. A simple supply chain template can handle that: ie timing planting and demand season.
Sayang!!
What do you think can be done? To close the great divide between educ instituionss? Theory and practice.
