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MONETARY: Filipino Farming is dying under the chemicalised farming and debt money system
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- Subject: MONETARY: Filipino Farming is dying under the chemicalised farming and debt money system
- From: Eric Encina <ericencina@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
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Family subsidy or supplementary basic income to family can reduce and even replace all other unnecessary subsidies-that do not work for the citizens. In the Philippines, there is no any form of subsidy to the poor Filipino farmers and their families. Filipino farmers are dying. All over the Philippines, farming without any assistance from the government is dying as a way of modern life; many farms are untilled, awaiting conversions to non-agricultural uses. It is good in EU and US, farmers are organized well to mount a strong lobby to defend and protect their interests. However, it appears that organic farming is still
marginalised even in USA. Rich nations continue to support the costly operations of their farmers through huge price-distorting subsidies and tariff walls against cheaper imports. In the Philippines, the situation is the opposite. More than 20 Million Filipino farmers and their families are suffering terrible poverty, disabilities, injustice and hunger under the life-health destroying, killing, environmentally-soil poisoning chemically-based farming under the traps of multinational chemical companies and loan sharks lending institutions. WTO is not for the poor farmers in the poor countries but only for the protection of agricultural products of the rich nations. There is injustice in this trade liberalization disastrously affecting the poor farmers and their families especially the families and innocent children. We must continue to work together for change and especially for organic farming and for monetary and economic justice for the poor families. Do you have any comments? Thank you for reading. Eric V. Encina Filipino Alternative Solutions For Sustainable Survival, Inc. c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines Tel. No. 0063 36 6216-454
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