The agriculture department has announced that it will soon launch a P70 million piglet dispersal and feed subsidy program for backyard hog growers hit by typhoon Frank. The program, DA said, is part of its efforts to rehabilitate farms and fishponds hit by the typhoon.
That’s the kind of short-gestating projects that the typhoon ravaged areas need to get back on their feet. After 90 days, a piglet reaches marketable size. The grower gets additional income. There’s more food to go around, easing the pressure of demand running after commodities in short supply.
We were about to praise the DA for the project when we reached the point where the news item said the piglets and the feeds would be distributed in Central and Southern Luzon.
Central and Southern Luzon? It’s news to us that these areas were ravaged by last month’s typhoon. We saw television clips showing the devastation in Aklan and Iloilo. Relief efforts were focused on these provinces. Is the DA telling us that Central and Southern Luzon too were battered by Frank even if at a magnitude less than the damage in Panay?
There’s a town in the interior part of Iloilo that serves as the livestock trading center for the whole island. It’s reasonable to assume that the stocks, mainly cattle, have also been decimated by Frank and need replacement. Aklan has also lately emerged as another hog-growing center, with bulk of the output shipped to Manila. That province surely needs government-subsidized feeds more than, say, Bulacan or Batangas.
This is the kind of misplaced allocation of funds that makes people cynical about the purported billions the government has allotted for rehabilitation of typhoon-damaged areas. The victims have not seen the color of the rehabilitation money. The suspicion is the funds got hijacked by politicians, that is, assuming there have indeed been releases by Malacañang.
If government could do this to disaster victims, promising them assistance it has no intention of delivering, how then could people believe it would deliver on the P4 billion “Katas ng VAT” already in the pipeline and P10 billion more in commitments?
There’s a disconnect between actions and words. And we can expect more disconnect between stark reality and gilded pronouncements when Gloria Arroyo unveils her “nationwide unified social welfare” program during her coming State of the Nation Address.
Another moneymaking gimmick no doubt of the Pidals. Lumang tugtugin na. Pinapatrabaho doon sa mga sipsip na sinama sa US junket. Yuck!
Dapat sa mga mokong na iyan pinagbabatukan sa ulo. Bakit si Pidal na ba ang may-ari ng Pilipinas na dapat nilang sundin. But then, susunod nga sila, kasi tiba-tiba sila pag ginawa nila ang racket na pinapagawa ni Pidal! Kunyari pa raw livestock initiative. Unggoy! Hindi pala unggoy, baboy!!!
Ellen says:
There’s a disconnect between actions and words.
Gooria knows the pinoys don’t mind – they have short memories and very forgiving too. On the next SONA gooria will tell her adoring fans that she will be their president … for life.
Whore Gloria is a well known liar, hence words coming out of her mouth are just like sewer from stinking Pasig River with extreme offensive strong odor, stink. Not even an ounce of truth anything coming out of the whore’s mouth. The whore has no honor nor integrity. Lying is the only thing she respect. State of the Nation Address by the whore is just a waste of time.
hindi kaya backlash ng “Frank” ang nag damage sa Luzon and the center of this storm (named “glue”) is by the river in Aviles kaya baboys ang may kailangan ng tulong ngayon? Ang sulat ng isang pinsan ko .. heavily damaged in Sibalom and San Remigio were areas along the rivers…ang mga “durog” farm areas and many homes and animals were swept away in just a few hours ..maybe ganoon din ang nangyari sa river banks doon sa Aviles. Nasaktan ang mga baboy na alaga ng reyna..seguro ang aabot lang na tulong sa Iloilo ay yong piggery at poultry ni siraulo..oh well..ang sabi seguro what are we in power for?
Tanong ng Blog post: “Luzon also heavily damaged by Frank?”
Ang sagot: “Soon, Ellen, soon.”
Nanloloko na naman si Gloriang korap.
Ang adult Pig na si Mike Pidal ang unang ibenta, kung may bibili pa.
Puro press release, gawin muna ninyo!
Those Piglet program is a good program. The Dept of Agriculture should give seeds to the poor who has a space to plant in their backyard just for their daily consumption. We used to have vegetable garden in the province. We did not buy fruits and veges because we were sef sufficient. Even now our livelihood is agriculture, the price of water here is more than the price of oil and gold so we are easing off by using less water. Everywhere in the world is hardship. It is for us to thighen up and save for the rainy days. Thing is, our health is still intact, we have fear of God, integrity and respect for our fellowmen, we have good government and most of all we have freedom.