Reboot “Go Negosyo”! Add New Program, “Go Good News Organic” & Help PH Agriculture Solve Farmer Poverty And Resolve Climate Change!

I am looking at my photographs in that day we officers and leaders of the Nagkaisa Multi-Purpose Cooperative of my agricultural hometown Asingan, Pangasinan, attended a one-day “Business Financing Forum,” with DBP’s awesome presence (bottom image), 22 March 2017 at the Museum in Dagupan City when Belen T Fernandez was Mayor. It made us aware of available financing schemes by different public & private banks and investment groups.

Minds alert and ready to learn, with the leadership of Rogelio C Daranciang (Chair) and Jose Sales (Vice Chair), we from Nagkaisa were awakened as to the funding possibilities for our members, who were mostly farmers, but we failed to pursue the prospects. The business-loan promise did not register with our non-business minds! That was 6 years ago.

Today, I have been away for years from Nagkaisa and Asingan, but not from agriculture. Today also, I note the promise of Go Negosyo with its slogan “Enabling competitive Filipino entrepreneurs” (Go Negosyo, gonegosyo.ph, source of top image). “Go Negosyo seeks to be the institution that brings together all key stakeholders and enablers to generate competitive Filipino entrepreneurs and help MSMEs scale up.”

I am an agriculturist, not in business (UP Los Baños, BSA major in Ag Edu, 1965), but I have in mind the business of farming because of Farmer Poverty and Climate Change.

I am now reading ANN’s news item, “DA, Go Negosyo, LBP Tie Up For Inclusive Growth Of Phl Agri” (Author Not Named, 20 Sept 2021, da.gov.ph) that says:

To sustain and scale-up local agribusinesses and open more economies… Agriculture Secretary William Dar inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Go Negosyo and the LandBank of the Philippines (LBP) for the promotion of inclusive growth through financial inclusivity and accessibility of [agrientrepreneurs], farmers, and fishers, mentored under the Kapatid Agri Mentor Me Program (KAMMP).

KAMMP … aims to nurture and sustain agribusiness in the country through coaching and mentoring…

Through a virtual ceremonial signing, the three institutions committed to continue to support and provide innovations for micro, small, and medium enterprises…

Kampi ako sa KAMMP. With an intelligently selected and full-time Secretary of Agriculture, I am strongly urging KAMMP to help produce entrepreneurs from among our farmers.

I would like to add to the challenge Go Negosyo imposed on itself with a modified slogan: “Enabling competitive Filipino farmers as entrepreneurs with their organic farming.” I’ll call this new call “Go Negosyo, Go Organic!”

Since 2007 when Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize, I have been looking at organic farming to solve Farmer Poverty and resolve Climate Change.

That is because chemical agriculture (CA), which is the practice of farmers today, is so expensive, and organic agriculture (OA) is so inexpensive: Lower total costs, higher net returns. CA generates greenhouse gases that generate Climate Change! – while OA generates healthy soils, healthy crops, healthy harvests, healthy foods, healthy bodies, healthy incomes, healthy villages! OA: We couldn’t ask for anything more!@517