Reboot Farmers’ Lives With “Angat Bukid” With “Angat Buhay” Sponsorship!

I, with a rich agriculturist mind – a teacher-graduate of UP Los Baños (1965), farmer’s son, and relentless self-learner including digital skills (starting Innocents Day 1985), now 82+ – am challenging Leni Robredo’s “Angat Buhay” group to sponsor an original program I call “Angat Bukid” for poor farmers of Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao to rise from poverty and stay up there! (Yes, I got about 500 images – such as the top half-image above – when I googled for “Life is better on the farm” – but “better” is not automatic; a better life is there only if the liver is prosperous!)

(“Farmer” from investphilippines.info, “Life is better” from shutterstock.com)

“Angat Bukid” as project proposal formed in my inventive mind when I read the Facebook sharing of Atty Leni Robredo about the Angat Buhay numeracy project “MathSaya” for schoolchildren; she shares:

So happy to see the first batch of graduates of our pilot Angat Bilang Center in Pasig City💖
This is our very first numeracy hub, where Angat Buhay, our partners, and the community work together to strengthen the math skills of our schoolchildren.
Grateful and so proud of everyone who are making this happen. Congratulations and a great job, too, to our students!

For learners, it is good to help the children early to learn math, because it’s not easy. Thus, All Kinds Of Minds has a list of six “Mathematics Difficulties” (allkindsofminds.org) – 6? Never mind!

For farmers, my proposed “Angat Bukid” is to demonstrate the use of the rotavator in creating an automatic layer of mulch all over the field – thus enabling the creation and simultaneously spreading of an organic mulch in any field of any size. That is organic fertilizer created automatically – this is organic agriculture automatically started by a machine!

With Angat Buhay as financial sponsor, “Angat Bukid” will involve initially 5 State Colleges and Universities of the Philippines (SCUs):

Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU);
Pangasinan State University (PSU);
Central Luzon State University (CLSU);
UP Los Baños College of Agriculture (UPLB-CA);
Bicol University College of Agriculture & Forestry (BU-CAF).

On location with the SCUs listed, the first half of the year will be spent with my demonstrating the “most intelligent” behavior of the rotavator – which is not stated in any manufacturer’s instructions. My personal experience of about 20 years, through my brother-in-law Enso Casasos, is that by adjusting the rotavator in a certain way, the machine will automatically produce an organic mulch – cutting & at the same mixing the soil with weeds and crop refuse, and spreading the mix as it rotavates all over the field.

As a concluding result of “Angat Bukid,” we will reinvent the rotavator so that every single time it is operated, without further instructions for the operator and without further adjustments on the machine, that automatic organic mulch will be produced. The reinvented rotavator will be registered at the Patent Office with “Angat Buhay” as owner of the patent.

Hereby, I hope Atty Leni Robredo will say “Yes!”@517