Policymakers are almost one in saying that to help rice farmers get better compensated for their labor, the middleman has to be eliminated and the farmers allowed to sell products (palay) directly to consumers. The latest to think aloud about this advocacy is Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, whose words, like those of President Rodrigo Duterte himself, wield such power and magic that people in government consider them done even before they are punctuated with winks and other emojis (the middle finger in the case of Duterte).
As early as April of last year, Go, like many politicians and bureaucrats before him, raised the need to help farmers in a variety of ways. A bilingual post on his online blurb (kuyabonggo.ph) breaks the issues down and offers brilliant solutions. Here are excerpts:
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