'Maring' leaves an agri wasteland, state mandarins corporatizing crop insurance

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Standing yellow corn worth hundreds of millions of pesos crumbling from the sheer force of rushing floods. A farmer trying to save what he could from a bumper corn yield in a drying area with the help of volunteers and netizens, largely for nothing.

A SMALL farmer in any part of the country could not watch the heartbreaking video feeds and TV footage from severe Tropical Storm Maring's pummeling of agricultural areas in Northern Luzon for long. Standing rice valued at over P1 billion turned into flattened, soaked, matted straw.The grief of the affected farmers, looking at a cursed six months, was truly overwhelming.

And we are set to import 500,000 metric tons of pork this year. From this October to March next year, we will import 200,000 metric tons of fish, while our fishermen are being driven away by Chinese fishermen within our own territorial waters.And as Tropical Storm Maring ravaged much of Northern Luzon, Mr.

 

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