Can we modernize the agriculture technology and productivity? Can the promises be kept?

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

This post was amazed by a video on Saudi Arabia modernizing its agriculture.   Their agri contributes about $18.00 billion to their GDP.  Who woud think that this could happen to a country largely covered by desert?

May be Saudi leaders saw that they could not be too dependent on oil exports and coulld not  dependent on agri imports  

It employed several techniques much known to our leaders in achieving such self sufficiency and surplus

     1.   Water

           1.  Tapping aquifers

           2.  Desalination plants

     2.  Helping farmers

          1.  Interest free loans

          2   Technical assistance

    3.  Massive investments in agriculture and technologies    (about $20 billion)

Saudi Agriculture

Why cant we achieve the same level of sufficiency and modernization.  We have some of the best schools in agriculture:    UPLB and CLSU  (2/3 of CLSU faculty are doctorate)   Our Sec of Agriculture is no less than the President.   We have plenty of rains and water in the Philippines.   We do not need desalination plants like Saudi

Why are we having shortages in onions, garlic, and lately in eggs   and oh yes sugar and rice.  This is an embarrassment (All tallks lang during the campaign to modernize agriculture? More passion needed

I met Dr. Tito Cantado who owns a company that produces Noni Juice and he bewailed the state of agriculture world wide (as he served as consultant of FAO.   The focus on subsistence farming 

and traditional farming are roadblocks to agricultural productivity   Corporate farming, leases to agricultural lands under land reform (as what DOLEfil  is doing at Gensan

Let us wake up men.   

I emailed the Spentrep class for advanced preparation

Hi:

Kristine

Ed

Michael Paolo

Eliza

I am going to be your facilitator in the elective, entrepreneurship which should have started 2 weeks ago.  But two successive flooding/typhoon on a Monday cancelled our class.

Tomorrow is National Heroes day, there would be no class again.

In order to make your days productive:

l. Please walk through the syllabus which may have in hard copy or click the blogsite (profjorgeentrep- jorge, or profjorgeentrep- ateneo) for the syllabus. Please read this carefully:  the grading system and the assignment.

2.  You can answer the learning agreement and submit the hard copy by next Monday.

3.  You start working on the following assignments:  inspirational videos (please see samples on profjorgentrep.dev site)

4.  Please familiarize yourself on the websites, and how to submit assignments on line.  The websites (blogs sites have been marked for you at the bottom of this page for your convenience.

5.  You can view the powerpoint at slideshare under my name.  It is at slideshare. You can click the link at the profjorgeentrep - jorge or ateneo blogsite for advanced viewing of the course.

I emailed the four of you because I felt you have leadership in the class (I hope I am correct) and please forward to your classmates.

Have blessed week end.  Sincerely