Bangladesh Army chief, General Moin U. Ahmed is one with me when he advised his countrymen to start eating potato with their rice to combat food shortage.
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Potatoes to the rescue!
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Two Scary Photos from the Daily Paper
Right you are.Those are two condominium buildings right in the middle of the Philippine rainforests. These condos house the Korean staff of the Hanjin shipbuilding company in Subic Bay in Zambales. I wonder why those who are not "mere Filipinos" are given the privilege to misuse and abuse our resources, human and otherwise. Are we too hospitable?
How much does a kilo of rice cost now? P30? P32? The last time my mother asked me to buy rice from the nearby sari-sari store a kilo costs like, P19. Even if I am a potato, I like my meal with rice, boiled or fried.
Look at how happy these (perhaps) mother and son are after purchasing those little packs of rice at a reasonable price. They say there is rice shortage in the country. Why can't I digest the fact that there really is? Maybe, what we have is a truth shortage, an excess of greed, and a scheming government.
For a better nation, plant potatoes.
How much does a kilo of rice cost now? P30? P32? The last time my mother asked me to buy rice from the nearby sari-sari store a kilo costs like, P19. Even if I am a potato, I like my meal with rice, boiled or fried.Look at how happy these (perhaps) mother and son are after purchasing those little packs of rice at a reasonable price. They say there is rice shortage in the country. Why can't I digest the fact that there really is? Maybe, what we have is a truth shortage, an excess of greed, and a scheming government.
For a better nation, plant potatoes.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Potato Photo Contest
An interesting news for you, potato lovers and photographers, from Decan Herald:
UN organises
international photography
contest on potato
New York, PTI:
contest on potato
New York, PTI:
The United Nations agricultural agency has organised an international photography contest on the role of the potato in the fight against hunger and poverty to commemorate the International Year dedicated to the tuber.
Despite being called the food of the poor, potato is the planet's fourth largest food source.
The contest, titled Focus on a global food, invites photographers to capture the spirit of the International Year in images which illustrate potato biodiversity, cultivation, processing, trade, marketing, consumption and utilization.
"Photographers who explore the world of the potato will find plenty of subject matter," said NeBambi Lutaladio, the coordinator of the International Year, which aims to raise global awareness of the potato's potential to help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets for reducing extreme poverty and other global ills by the year 2015.
"It is grown in more than 100 countries, from the Andes and China's Yunnan plateau to the subtropical lowlands of India, on the plains of northern Europe and the steppes of the Ukraine," Lutaladio noted.
"It is grown in more than 100 countries, from the Andes and China's Yunnan plateau to the subtropical lowlands of India, on the plains of northern Europe and the steppes of the Ukraine," Lutaladio noted.
Sponsored by Nikon, the contest has separate categories for professional and amateur photographers, and will accept single digital images or 'photo stories' of four to eight related images, in either black-and-white or colour.
The winning photographs will be chosen by a selection panel that includes some of the world's leading professionals in the field of photography. Winners will be awarded cash prizes totaling about USD 11,000 as well as Nikon cameras. The deadline for entries is September 1, 2008.
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