RE: The Philippines is an Agricultural Country, Yet Farmers Strive for Food, Contributed by @juvyjabian
Blame it on the Filipinos that leave their country to live debt ridden lives in western countries. They leave their ancestral land to family relatives that don’t have a history of managing the property and waste it all. Life is not all fun and games as a “landlord”. People sue you for all kinds of stupid reasons. Out of the blue, a distant relative or maybe even a rotten child, will sue a landlord because his father didn’t give him the land but rather sold it. I won’t even get into the corruption of the legal system, from judge to mayor to tax assessor. There are many reasons farmers could choose to not own land but simply lease it or get paid to work the land.
Still a sharing of 7-3 is really low. I heard it’s usually 50-50. The landlord has supplies and taxes and bills to pay. My Lolo’s farmers seem to do quite well. Their children even go to college. When a farmer was sick with pneumonia, he paid the bill.
Funny how a lot of the solution is “government”. Government should take the land and just give it to them. That is the worst solution, and it stinks of communism, which has been proven to be a failure. Maybe all those who scream for revolution want no property laws, or better yet isis.
That was the problem that the current administration is trying to solve. As you can hear it in the news, duterte is trying to avoid western capitalization, which hopefully reverts the things that were done in the past.
This article is bullshit liberal media. Their solution is to hand over land to the farmers who by the articles own admission don’t know how to read or write. Then they complain big companies take over the land and make the people indentured servants. You don’t see the problem here?
The article is liberal propaganda, and everyone falls for it with upvotes. The problem here is everyone judges the life of a farmer from their perspective. Everyone here is like “omg these farmers look like they’re so poor and have flies all over their faces and eat insects. We have to do something. Oh get the government involved and give them land.”
These farmers are not as helpless as people perceive them to be, and the ones I’ve met have a pretty decent life, a life they chose by their own design. If anything this article degraded the very people they supposedly want to help in order to get more communist socialist programs.