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.~