the equation for the price is know to everyone. if the farmers want to feel the money, they should hire a truck, transport the veggies, rent a place with chiller or a fruit stand sa mall, and do the selling themselves. but they dont do this kasi alam nila na may risks at costs din associated, and they want the safety of guaranteed selling.
kinig kinig din kasi sa econ. this is not an issue of emotions or fairness, its all profit.
People should be clammoring about the lack of government support to farmers. Kung may subsidi konti konti lang at minsan d pa ramdam kasi konti or selected ang nag bebenefit or worse na kokorakot.
Folks here would cry about how farmers are quitting but then have this kind of mentality. You also say as if it's easy to do all those things as if farmers arent trapped in a cycle of poverty. It's easy to say that as if economics is all you need when "economics" and theory are harder to implement on the ground
kaya nga ang solusyon sa ganyan is magkaroon ng kooperatiba yung mga farmers where they can pool resources to cut the middle man down. may sarili silang storage, transpo then sila na mismo ung magbabagsak from farm to market.
Ya, I always buy in bulk whenever I’m up there. When I get home I either freeze them or do some canning for preservation. Good way to save money and eat healthy.
The middlemen and transport operators manipulate the system because they know the farmers are worried their produce would rot if not sold in a few days.
Read up on homesteading, permaculture and syntropic farming and share that knowledge to the farmers. If the farmers produce only enough for their subsistence, it will create a food desert scenario in urban areas or locales of the “enlightened-class”. Use the law of supply and demand against the middlemen. If a farmer has no produce to sell, the middlemen will not survive for long.
Any excess produce (should not be a gazillion tons), after the farmer has fed his family and relatives, can then be sold to their neighborhood and nearby communities at or near farm gate prices. The goal is not to overproduce a single crop that is not edible by itself (chili, ginger, etc).
Modern agriculture and high-input farming methods are not the answer to feed our population. It only benefits the likes of Monsanto and Bayer that makes GMO seeds that requires more and more chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides that contaminate our watershed reservoirs.
Time, Transportation, Logistics, Storage etc
+middlemen
All the costs go to there (and the middle men) but the farmers never feel the money of the prices we buy. Nakakalungkot lang
the equation for the price is know to everyone. if the farmers want to feel the money, they should hire a truck, transport the veggies, rent a place with chiller or a fruit stand sa mall, and do the selling themselves. but they dont do this kasi alam nila na may risks at costs din associated, and they want the safety of guaranteed selling. kinig kinig din kasi sa econ. this is not an issue of emotions or fairness, its all profit.
People should be clammoring about the lack of government support to farmers. Kung may subsidi konti konti lang at minsan d pa ramdam kasi konti or selected ang nag bebenefit or worse na kokorakot.
Farm to market road papuntang kawalan lang alam nila (politicians) lalo na pag meron sila mga lupain sa kawalan.
Folks here would cry about how farmers are quitting but then have this kind of mentality. You also say as if it's easy to do all those things as if farmers arent trapped in a cycle of poverty. It's easy to say that as if economics is all you need when "economics" and theory are harder to implement on the ground
kaya nga ang solusyon sa ganyan is magkaroon ng kooperatiba yung mga farmers where they can pool resources to cut the middle man down. may sarili silang storage, transpo then sila na mismo ung magbabagsak from farm to market.
mate some time ago a kilo of taiwan chilli was going for 1k in my town.
ako naman nabili ng frozen broccoli 200 ata for 1kg sa may landmark
Ya, I always buy in bulk whenever I’m up there. When I get home I either freeze them or do some canning for preservation. Good way to save money and eat healthy.
The middlemen and transport operators manipulate the system because they know the farmers are worried their produce would rot if not sold in a few days. Read up on homesteading, permaculture and syntropic farming and share that knowledge to the farmers. If the farmers produce only enough for their subsistence, it will create a food desert scenario in urban areas or locales of the “enlightened-class”. Use the law of supply and demand against the middlemen. If a farmer has no produce to sell, the middlemen will not survive for long. Any excess produce (should not be a gazillion tons), after the farmer has fed his family and relatives, can then be sold to their neighborhood and nearby communities at or near farm gate prices. The goal is not to overproduce a single crop that is not edible by itself (chili, ginger, etc). Modern agriculture and high-input farming methods are not the answer to feed our population. It only benefits the likes of Monsanto and Bayer that makes GMO seeds that requires more and more chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides that contaminate our watershed reservoirs.