Hey all,
I live in Vietnam and I'm trying to find an equivelent word in English. Here, the coffee farmers will place compost directly underneath coffee seedlings. Kind of like how (as the story goes) the Native Americans put corn in fishheads to help the corn grow. In Vietnamese it translates to 'green manure compost'.
I can't seem to find the word in English for this technique. Maybe there's some technical jargon I'm not acquainted with.
He also slightly expands on this claim in the next section, "Marita's Bargain".
"Terroir" is mostly used in English-speaking countries to describe how the soil, the sun, the weather affect a wine's identity, but in France it is a rather polysemic word that implies rural identity and a visceral attachment to the soil and the local traditions that are born from it.
So is CARP bad or good? Who came up with this stuff? Is this the reason why there are little to no investments in our agricultural sector now? According to the PSA, rice farmers only get a net return of P16,832 per hectare. Since CARP law limits private individuals of owning agricultural land to just 5 hectares, let's assume that each farmer has 5 hectares and uses it to full capacity:
P16,832 X 5 = P84,160
Now there are two harvest seasons of rice er year. Assuming the yields are consistent, you get:
P84,160 x 2 = P168,320
Now take note that this is your ANNUAL income, not monthly income. If you divide that P168,320 by 12 to get the monthly income of each farmer owning just 5 hectares, youβre just gonna get a paltry P14,026.66 per month and thatβs assuming full yields and optimal conditions. You actually earn more being a call center agent or an office worker than someone who plants rice for a living when the government has purposely blocked your means to earn more and plant more by limiting the amount of agricultural land you own.
You actually have a better chance to move up in society being a call center agent than being a farmer. Quite sad that our agricultural sector is in such a sorry state. Remember the saying, βThe road to hell is paved by good intentions.β Our lawmakers need to scrap this law if we want agriculture in our country to flourish.
Pagan Europeans, Celts in particular are depicted as making sacrifices to ensure a good harvest to what extent was this a reality?
I've been using Thich Naht Hanh's book "Daily Ceremonies" book, but the more I use it, the more I realize it's not in line with the goals I want through Buddhism. It's daily ceremonies are way, way too tied up with social activism at a minimum (for example, a lot of the prayers are about asking on how "we" can take social action to end the unjust suffering of others, rather than believing in the efficacy of the prayers themselves for our own inner growth and ending the suffering of others), and at worst, hints of New Age / Establishment leftist politics thrown throughout (for example, honoring "Bodhisattva Mother Earth Gaia" and "Father Sun Buddha Mahavairocana, the source of life on Earth" - prayers that I of course just skipped over). I knew that Thich Naht Hanh was the founder of "Engaged Buddhism" and later found out he was a controversial figure for how much of an activist he was to the traditional Buddhist communities...
But I know he's probably a better, more achieved and closer to Enlightenment person than I am based on his life.
As such, I didn't think that his activism and the people in the West he associated with would affect the religious texts he gives and his school's spiritual practice to the extent that it does.
I want my spiritual prayer and meditation life to embody the real traditional stuff. I want the full, real thing. Detached from political ideology. Detached from modernist philosophy. Just the living tradition as it's practiced in Asia.
If anyone has real resources for traditional Buddhist praxis, that would be helpful.
