Thursday, December 14, 2017

The Grain Center is as Old as Joseph's Dream and Aesop's Fable

 Dr Abe V Rotor
Former Director, National Food Authority



NFA Grain Center in Cagayan Valley, circa 1977

Like the nucleus of a cell depends the life of a nation,
the Center the equalizer in times of plenty and lean,
buffer stock is built like in Joseph's prophetic dream;
of seven years of plenty and seven years of famine.  

Politics of war and peace draws the politics of food;
nothing's really new but terminologies, flag and tool,
and Demeter or Ceres the same goddess of harvest,
so with The Ant and the Grasshopper in Aesop fable.~ 


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