Quote Originally Posted by dfopiso View Post
OT: btw, mukhang hindi manufacturing ang DNA ng mga Pilipino; agri/aqua culture yata

problema, kahit nasa atin na IRRI, rice importer pa rin tayo. bakit nagkaganon? diba estudyante lang natin mga Thais, Viets atpb?

bakit hanggang ngayon wala yatang malaking Pilipino company sa agri/acqu business? atin ba ang San Miguel, Del Monte, etc?

yung napanood ko sa NatGeo at History Channel, ang bilis mag harvest sa US

sabi sa Global 3000, food prices has doubled! hindi ba business opportunity yun?

ang Brazil hindi naman yata arable land pero agriculture superpower sila?


Ahh ok here are a few things to this. First, manufacturing is an activity any industrializing country should have. No ifs or buts about it.

As far as rice self-sufficiency, we are on target to be so by 2016 give or take a few typhoons. Don't feel so bad about IRRI alumni getting ahead of us, we did have a generation of opportunities lost to martial law and mismanagement after that. Its really just the reality.

Scales of economies in agriculture are achieved by agro-industrial integration. This, however, will not happen quite yet given the abundance of agricultural labor. In most countries where you have this being implemented, there is a growing scarcity and cost of farm labor.

Brazil took decades to get to where it is right now agriculturally. Somehow they were blessed with historical opportunities that were exploited. The investments from terra-forming unusable land to linking these via rail wasn't achieved overnight in tandem with scientific support.

Tata is to India as to what Hyundai/Kia/Samsung is to Korea. It is an industrial conglomerate that benefits from policies of protection. The Indian economy is fairly closed to foreign investments. They can afford to do so given the size of their market.