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excerpt from a Facebook post:

The Bohol Experience is now the blue print of anti-poverty campaign. By implementing a a family farm concept integrated into a communal farming system, complimented by an eco-balanced environment, with a manageable population growth vis-a-vis the economic resources and an integrated private sector/civil society participatory approach in managing governance, is a new concept in third world countries and Bohol has now been a model of this system to address poverty, peace, development, stability and a well balance eco-system.

The momentum and the phase is already there, what is needed is the continuous empowerment of the farmers, to empower them technically and they be given farm materials and inputs to over supply other agricultural produce. 15 years ago, (NIA-DA) we put up a project to benefit the farmers and rebel returnees, we dispersed mangoes and livestock and gave the rebel returnees and the farmers Irrigator's Associations the technology. Now, many of them are Mango growers, but this is not enough, they must continue for the processing to set in. What is needed are Bamboos, which is in demend in Bohol by the resort owners. This can be dispersed through the farmers and the Irrigators association, it can be converted into chopsticks and other by-products later on. As well as the livestock, because Bohol is already rice sufficient (wag lang kayong pasukan ng rice cartel, like in Luzon), otherwise . . . it will become Bohol's down fall. In the Philippines always remember that RICE is a political commodity, especially that our climate is now very unpredictable.