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OFW farmer calls for creation of trading post in Pampanga

STA. RITA, Pampanga—Roy Imperial, former director of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) High Value Commercial Crops Division, said Fidel David had been considered for a full scholarship grant on modern agricultural farming in Israel.
The consultant-adviser of Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda said David “would be the best farmer to send as he is passionately involved in organic farming,” largely patronized in Israel.
David told Imperial that “I have many things to do here and other farmers may be more qualified for the study grant.”
Imperial said David is the “wise choice” because he will surely share to other farmers what he learns in Israel.
Last year, David was featured in a Metro Manila magazine for his successful yield of Jade Lady honeydew melons.
David developed the green-colored fruits at his greenhouse donated through the DA’s High Value Crop Development program initiated by Pampanga Second District Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Several farmers who received greenhouses are encouraged by David’s success in growing honeydew melons under greenhouse condition using organic fertilizers. They also want to learn David’s methodology.
But David’s success story on growing honeydew melons had been cut short by the so-called “greed and unfair market practice of some middlemen.”
He said a prominent and well-known firm had purchased his honeydew melons for P20 per kilo. A few days later he found that the private firm had sold his fruits at P120 per kilo at a mall in Pampanga.
David urged Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda to help farmers get a fair share in marketing their fruits and vegetables.
“We do all the work and invest our hard-earned money on our crops. But it’s the middlemen who benefit a lot when they have nothing to lose but everything to gain,” said David.
He asked the first-term governor to create a trading post similar to what Agriculture Sec. Proceso Alcala fully supported in Sariaya, Quezon. The vegetable trading post called “Sentrong Pamilihan ng Produktong Agrikultura” benefited Quezon farmers, most of whom were from the province’s Second District where Alcala was a former congressman.
Imperial said the governor had asked him earlier to make a study on the trading post or center along the Olongapo-Gapan Rd.
“Governor Pineda was inspired by the success of the trading post pushed by Secretary Alcala in Quezon. She asked me to make a thorough study of the trading center to make sure it will be beneficial, especially to farmers,” said Imperial.
Butil Farmers Partylist Rep. Agapito Guanlao of Pampanga also pushed for the creation of a trading center in the province.
David said the national government should help farmers sell their produce in a set-up where they will earn more instead of the middlemen. He said the money and time spent by the government on subsidizing farmers should be used instead in helping them market and sell their fruits and vegetables properly.
“The farmers can buy their fertilizers and other needs. The real problem is that they don’t get much profit from their products due to unfair marketing practices,” said David.
He said that if there is a trading post in Pampanga, just like the one they have in Quezon, farmers can bring their products at the trading post, selling their produce at a higher price compared to what the middlemen offer them.
David pinned his hopes on Pineda, saying “the governor has been helping her people a lot and the farmers have high hopes on her.”
He said he is ready to help Pineda on her projects designed to help farmers get a better yield and improve their lives, adding he was alarmed by his own study and survey that the average age of farmers in Pampanga is 54. He surveyed the age of at least 1,000 farmers.
He said the project of Pineda should encourage younger people to engage in the noble but rewarding profession of farming.
“As I have said, farming is where the money is. We just have to know and practise new technologies and not just rely on planting palay,” said David. “The trading post is just the missing piece.”

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/04/11/12/ofw-farmer-calls-creation-trading-post-pampanga

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