Ma'am Leni, Here Is My Proposal For You – Love For Food, Healthy Organic Foods Grown By Girls, Starting With Village Sagñay!

PH girls are minding the stores and PH boys are minding the farms – but not growing healthy, organic foods! So? So, let the girls teach the boys how to grow the food of their lives!

I note that Angat Buhay village in your part of PH (06 June 2021, “Sagñay, Camarines Sur launches social housing project, Angat Buhay Village,” Bicol Express News, bicolexpress.news). You VP Ma'am Leni (in photo) graced the groundbreaking ceremony at Barangay Del Carmen, the site for 50 houses for families who had been dwelling in hazard-prone places.

So, with my proposal, we will have a perfect combination: healthy villages growing healthy foods!

Above, already we have organic foods in Naga City such as offered by “Red Platter” (bicolhomepage.wordpress.com). The whole Angat Buhay Village should grow their own organic foods – for villagers to eat healthy, and to sell much more to the public. Good food, better cash.

Initially, the 50 families settling in Del Carmen Angat Buhay Village do not have to know agriculture to be able to successfully grow food. What I am proposing here is an Angat Buhay-funded “Angat Buhay Organics Project” that will be run by the girls.

My contribution to AB Organics Project will be agricultural and intellectual, a re-invention of the rotavator (invented by Australian Arthur Clifford Howard in 1919). We have locally available rotavators, but they all need to be reinvented so that each will, without training of the operator, produce on the field a layer of soil-plant mix that start to become organic fertilizer the moment it is created – automatically!

Ma'am Leni, what we have to do, of course with the knowledge of Kiko Pangilinan, your would-have-been VP, because he is a farmer – is to redesign the rotavator so that while it cultivates, it also creates an automatic mulch.

Earlier, I called the process “Mulching Matilda” (see my 24 Dec 2021 essay, “PH Farmers Want Cost Of Fertilizer Way Down – Much Better, Yield & Net Income Way Up!” covid21fah.blogspot.com). The girls, whether familiar with farming or not, will be waltzing their way to good, organic food with the use of that converted rotavator I will now call “Angat Buhay Rotavator.” Once reconfigured – according to my calculations – it will create a layer of organic mulch in any weedy field automatically even if the operator does not know anything about farming and/or mulching!

With me, an alumnus of UP Los Baños and the UPLB Alumni Association valuing me as an “Outstanding Alumnus” (2011), we will produce the first “AB Rotavator” at the College of Engineering & Agro-Industrial Technology of UP Los Baños at the UPLB campus, where you also find IRRI and PhilRice. (For the amount necessary for coming up with the funding to produce the “AB Rotavator,” PM me on Facebook.)

Sold units of the reinvented rotavator will grow more intelligent farmers – and raise more funds! Note my blog’s name and focus: “Communication for Village Development in the 21st Century.” For Village Sagñay, intelligent agriculture is key.@517