[OPINION | New School] Farmers: Our famished food suppliers

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'[With] Filipino farmers struggling to make ends meet, the country’s backbone is on the verge of breaking'

Who would have thought that an agricultural country’s food producers, the Filipino farmers, are starving, with empty pockets and dashed hopes?

I often see my neighbor, a fourth-year accountancy student, in front of our house, attending classes virtually while enduring the heat of the sun. When asked, “” . I would often invite him to come inside our home especially when it rained, yet he would simply refuse every offer with a simple “On his worn-out bicycle, he sells what his father has grown in their vegetable garden for a very affordable amount. When sales are rough, he would only make around P50 to P75.

The underlying root of all these problems is the sheer negligence of those in power. Farmers struggle with expensive farm supplies, new breeds of pests, climate change, and minimal to no returns on investments – all with little support from the government and other relevant sectors. To date, food producers are food poor, and remain one of the country’s poorest sectors.

 

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