It’s a constant irony that Filipinos who produce food for the nation are also among the impoverished, and that agriculture, a sector most crucial to national well-being, is also among the most neglected by the government. Thus has it been for decades (the gripping photograph of the sacada bent under his load of sugarcane, emblematic of the poverty that nourishes the enduring insurgency, is ever resonant); thus it remains to this day when agriculture’s budget
I admire the management of one of our most venerable universities who, according to one professor, decided that “normal,” that is, face-to-face, classes, won’t resume not only until a vaccine against COVID-19 is ready, but also that the vaccine is affordable and thus widely available for the public. By their reckoning, that likely won’t be until 2022 at the earliest, and so innovations and refinements of online teaching are continuing for that institution. As it is, aside from the health of students, that of faculty are endangered by any undue laxness when it comes to the virus; many would fit
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