The agricultural products of ASEAN countries caters an important margin of world consumers. As global warming is continuing its devastating impact throughout the world the micro farmers in rural areas of the 10 countries are greatly suffering from capital investment to marketing their agricultural produce. Unsuccessful micro farmers resort in selling their agricultural land and using its small amount of money to send their children abroad for job ventures. The lack of technological expertise of farmers in ASEAN countries considers the notion that farming in ASEAN countries is not a professional job.
Being a farmer in the twenty-first-century one must have enough knowledge and wisdom to define the evolving problems of the modern farming technique. Agricultural research in universities must have the micro implementation of the farming technique rather than the technique is only useful for conglomerate companies monopolizing the agribusiness. The strong positive output of micro-farming for a given country's economy will allow a longer sustainable economy in the main street. Resulting from this concept, micro agribusiness can form a cooperative organization to acquire a volume of produce counted as the gross national product. Small farming industries needs a higher educational technique to manage the agricultural farming process.
The negative effect of global warming and constant flooding in ASEAN countries puts the small micro farming businesses into the brink of bankruptcy. Some may not sell their small farming land to the big players which will leave their land idle for years. Considering that the countries in ASEAN are contributing a big part of the world's food supply, having these catastrophic events will cause a supply gap to the world's food supply. At this time many analyst are forecasting that food shortage will be realized in a few years time allowing the domino effect of famine and food price inflation.
Having said all the negative forecast, our micro farmers needs the support from the ASEAN countries to sustain its farming operation and to be able to encourage the small farmer's cooperative association to continue its operation. The ASEAN notion that farming is not a professional endeavor, using only the power of the buffalo to accomplish the job is a long gone definition of farming. The kind of farming needs a more scientific approach to be able to survive in the twenty-first century farming.
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