For so many decades now, politicians in my country (Philippines)
are always finding ways and means to facilitate the agriculture goods of the
Filipino farmers from the rural area up to the central cities and the
International market. Concrete roads and
bridges are being built and re-built for so many years now, but still the
problem of slow logistical system allowing the agriculture goods to perish on
the road going to the main central market.
The slow logistical system will allow the small farmers to sell their
goods just in the neighboring provinces in a much lower price just to get the
breakeven of the whole farming season operation.
With this aspect, large scale farming
industry has the advance mechanism to fasten and hasten their logistical
operation allowing their goods to arrive in the central market or even abroad
in a much earlier time. Furthermore, these
large business operators can even monopolies the market and killing the small
time farming businesses across the country.
Until this time this problem is still the main clamor of the small time
farmers in the country.
The integration of the new concept in computer technology
and the “internet of everything” can be a solution to the small time farmers in
the Philippines provided that the government will support this new farm to
market road which is the “Fiber Optic Highway”.
The bill passed by Senator Bam Aquino related to the internet enhancement
and providing free wifi points across the archipelago is the good starting
point to maximize the internet as a tool to fasten the flow of actual farm
goods. With the application of “internet
of everything” The senate Bill no. 1091 can be of actual use to the common
farmers.
The common notion of the common
farmers in the provinces that computer is only for gaming and for social media
or “facebook” can be an obsolete notion giving the fact that the new
technological breakthrough in farming can be real time case in the desktop of
the owner of the farm. I hope that more
follow-up bills from congress and senate will be implemented to maximize the
internet program of the present government.
Though the obvious set back is the high cost of computer hardware, but
investing in high technological farming can save the goods of the farmers and
eventually realize the expenses incurred during the installation of the
computer infrastructure.
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