Entrepreneurial Farmer

Ambrosio R. Villorente

Legislators Violate Comelec Laws

Election laws, rules and regulations declare the posting of election campaign materials in non-designated areas illegal. The Comelec has designated areas for poster and other propaganda materials. Comelec designates one location for every 5,000 voters.
If the Comelec Aklan is serious to implement this law, Manuel Villar maybe guilty of this law. The evidences are now displayed along the highway in Bulwang, Numancia, Aklan. His posters are now nailed by the trunk of Ilang-Ilang trees and in the wire posts.
He maybe guilty by "command responsibility". The nailing of those posters by the Ilang-Ilang trunks and wire posts is under his command.
Being the incumbent Senate President and former congressman, Villar must be one of those who formulated and approved these election laws. Being a legislator, Villar should know and demand compliance of those laws, much more lead in the obedience to the law.
Congratulations to the Comelec Aklan for toring down a billboard of the Overseas Filipino Corporation with the life size picture of Manuel Villar exposing his teeth as he endorses Hapee toothpaste…The billboard was located at the Kalibo – Numancia bridge, Numancia side.
IRRIGATION
Irrigation is a practice to provide water to the crops such as rice, corn and vegetables like cabbage, pechay and other crops. Water is one of the elements necessary to sustain growth of plants and animals including man. Hence, water maybe supplied to both plants and animals from both rain, surface and underground water.
Rain water is natural. It comes in times of need. It also comes when not needed either in less quantity, just enough and more than enough. Rain becomes destructive in some moments when it comes in flood to erode properties, to damage crops and livestock, buildings, roads and bridges, trees. Worst when it kills people.
In economics, specially in agriculture, water is a factor of production. Any project without water is designed to fail. To make good use of available water, man has invented and designed means to maximize the use of water. Man has designed equipment to convert water into electricity, such as waterways to irrigate plants as moisture to mitigate plant growth and productivity.
In San Teodoro, Oriental Mindoro, their engineers have drilled and installed pipes underground. Today, farmers irrigate their paddy fields with free – flowing water from underground source. They now possess the capacity to program their style of farming, as water is available, and as it is needed. In Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, potable water is just 300 feet deep on the ground. I saw this just week. One of these water systems is in the fishpond of Mr. & Mrs. Taruc Señel in Barangay Dangay, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro.
In Aklan, the NIA just allow water to flow continuously to the ocean from the rivers system while crops, like rice, run dry. What can a dike do to built across Aklan river in Sigcay, Banga? This gives false hope for a sufficient irrigation water for Aklanon farmers. /MP