“Agriculture Is Key” – World Bank. Why President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr As Interim Agriculture Secretary Should Encourage PH Media To Encourage Filipinos In Farming

“Philippines: Agriculture is key to faster recovery and poverty reduction” – World Bank (09 Sept 2020, worldbank.org). Inspired, here is my unsolicited advice to BBM: “Encourage PH mass media to mediate for Agriculture for the country’s progress!”

Bad news. It takes a financial company in the City of Makati to remind us to be busily engaged “in nation building & making the Philippine economy competitive and resilient.” Our own mass media shun such news and views!
(“Social media” image from iNigerian, inigerian.com)

About 8 AM Saturday, 25 June 2022, I browsed Facebook thoroughly for links to PH mass media in pursuit of progress. I found only 3 media posting, and niggardly on national development:

Esquire Money
Quoting Benigno S Aquino III:
“All I can say is at the end of the day, when I go home and I’m about to sleep, if I look at myself in the mirror, I can honestly say that I did my all on that particular day. And each and every day, that is the mantra.”

(I hope my ascendant President Ferdinand “BBM” Marcos Jr can likewise behave.)

Inquirer.net
15 sharings and only one entry (6) is for local development. (11) is American news, (15) is Japanese!

(1) South Korean company will produce tapioca starch in the Philippines…
(2) Philippine peso flirted [a] 55:$1 level…
(3) Palace fires a commissioner of CHEd …
(4) Truckers have asked their clients to pay an additional fixed cost of P5,000 per trip...
(5) “A simple, honest, self-effacing decent Filipino” … [Benigno Aquino III]
(6) DA's initiative to promote urban gardening …
(7) Filipino social customs and traditions...
(9) Today is 13th death anniversary of Michael Jackson…
(10) ING’s announcement… it was leaving retail banking …
(11) Project Rebound’s latest webinar…
(12) ING announced today it will leave….
(13) Supreme Court [affirms] decision upholding constitutionality of the law [on] party list groups.
(14) Playing minus two starters, Magnolia routs Phoenix
(15) City hopes that it will raise awareness [on] the forest…

ABS-CBN News
8 sharings and like the Inquirer is zero on improving communities!

(1) End of an era for the Philippine Stock Exchange…
(2) Pang-4 ang Pilipinas sa Southeast Asia na may pinakamataas na early birth rates…
(3) US Supreme Court [decides] to end the right to abortion…
(4) Sixteen-year-old Beaver Magtalas is making his acting debut…”
(5) Bago pa man ang nangyaring sunog sa M/V Mercraft 2…
(6) Ayon sa pulisya, maghahain sila ng arrest warrant…
(7) After about 8 hours or more grueling hours at work, commuters…
(8) “I just hope that Bongbong Marcos will be better than his father. Let’s wait and see,” pag-aasam ng isang Pinoy sa Ireland.

But all is not hopeless. Here is that Facebook image-post by DFNN (above):

DFNN will be a partner in nation-building and support the government in realizing its programs aimed at making the Philippine economy competitive and resilient.

“Agriculture is key.” BBM Sir, Jesus says, “Let those who have ears listen!”@517

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