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Creative Farming – My New Term For An Old Concept, To Encourage People, Farmers And Non-Farmers, To Defeat Despair And Lead Joyful Lives In/Via Farming!

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This whole article is my new message in Agriculture, to you wherever in the world, with this new concept of mine “Creative Farming” – “God willing, you create your own farm happiness!” (image from sg.images.search.yahoo.com ) The blunt statement “Regenerative Farming vs Conventional Farming” does not come from me; it is the title of an article by Sara that appears on fedbythefarm.com ). But “versus” quite captures the situation today; now I believe in the wisdom of RF compared to Conventional Farming. I am an agriculturist and a graduate of the UP Los Baños College of Agriculture (BSA 1965), but now believe in RF versus CF, while my alma mater UPLB hardly mentions RF if at all. I’m sorry to think this: “My alma mater has stopped learning!”? RF was born in the 1980s and spread all over the Internet; UPLB was born in 1909 and has stopped growing except old? This article is my reaction to the article by Sara as published by Fed by the Farm . As the above image shows, there are man...

As Japan Lends P65 Billion To Philippines For Infrastructure & Climate Change, I Ask Which Is More Dangerous – Debt Or Climate?

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Great, or Grave News? Here it is, by Louise Maureen Simeon : “During a high-level meeting of the two governments yesterday in Manila, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto and Japan International Cooperation Agency country chief representative Baba Takashi led the signing of loan agreements amounting to… roughly P65.43 Billion. “This was conducted on the sidelines of the 15th Philippines-Japan High-Level Joint Committee Meeting on Infrastructure Development and Economic Cooperation as part of efforts to expedite the rollout of Japan-supported projects in the Philippines.” The above image, “Japan Lends P65 Billion To Philippines For Infrastructure, Climate Change” is from PhilStar , 25 March 2025 ( philstar.com ), vaguely presenting the news.   I say “vaguely” from the standpoint of not pointing out how the financiang will be spent “boosting infrastructure and climate change initiatives in the country.” Exactly how? Especially about Climate Change – the Enemy of Us All! As ...