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Sen. Cynthia, maraming salamat na tayo'y nandito na naman at magkukwentuhan.
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Maraming maraming salamat din.
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Pag ako'y nabibigyan ng pagkakataon na dumalaw dito sa lugar ninyo, sa Las Piñas.
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I take the chance because nagagandaan ako.
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Lalo na nung nabalitaan ko na merong Children's Farm.
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Itong kinururunan natin ngayon.
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Ang kwento nito, ano? Kanino hong plano ito? What is the vision?
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It's a beautiful place.
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Kasi ito, boy, this is a farm school.
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I started this in 2016.
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So ang farm school po ay ano? At ang Children's Farm na ito ay bahagi ng farm school?
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Kasi nung matapos na yung farm school, after seven years, last year, ito nagsimula lang ito, December of this 2022.
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I want to make the farm more interesting.
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So nilagyan ko ng coffee shop.
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But in the middle, I did a children's farm.
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You know, when you have something like this, you develop a love for children.
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Ngayon, kung nakakakita ko mga bata, ito, entuwa ako.
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Nakatawa mga bata.
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May mga bata nag-go horseback riding.
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Natutuwa ako sa mga bata kasi gusto ko maaga pa sa buhay nila, ma-encourage na sila sa agriculture para naman may future on agriculture sa Philippines.
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So I thought that if I establish a farm school and young children will be exposed to a farm in their early years,
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baka mas maraming maging farmer in the future.
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You can actually feed?
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Ano yan? Napier. Napier.
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High protein rat.
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Nakipilagay mo lang dyan pagkakaguluhan na yan.
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Ah, okay. Oy, pigyan niyo naman yung isa.
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Sino mo nagkakagulo na? Tuwa na sila.
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Kami nagtatanim niyan eh. We have a plantation on the other end.
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So andito na lahat?
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Oo. Kasi para hindi kami bibili.
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Kung mapapalaki ko kita ng farmers at ang agriculture will become a business and they will be agripreneurs,
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then maya-attract natin ang mga bata.
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So itong farm school na ito, para maintindihan po ng ating mga kababayan, senador, ano po ito?
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I'm teaching farming to the farmers, especially those coming from the provinces.
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I have a dorm here that they can live here for the duration of their training.
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Usually, two weeks ang minimum. Kasi I wrote the law, the farm tourism law,
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which provided that we will encourage farm schools in every town in the Philippines.
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And then we have six courses here.
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One is rice farm mechanization, inbred rice seed production.
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Then we have vegetable farming.
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Then we have dairy.
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We have coconut intercropping with cacao.
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We have aquaculture.
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And final, the farm business school.
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Tinuturoan yung mga farmer to operate their farm as a business.
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Hindi na lang farming. Pwede mong gawing tourist farm para may dadating na mga tourist,
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makakainin mo, kikita ka doon, tapos pagbibilhan mo ng uwi.
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And then at the same time, farm school. Magtuturo ka sa mga farmer,
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hindi mo sisingelin ng farmer, free yun, walang pambayad yun.
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But TESDA and the Agricultural Training Institute will pay for all the tuition of the farmers
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who are studying in your farm school. Marami ka ng income.
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Senador, you have the plans of replicating this idea around the country?
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Yeah, we have replicated. We have 3,000 farm schools and tourist farms in the country.
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I passed the law in 2016, tapos promote namin, meron ng 3,000.
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Sa aming foundation, talagang ang aming aim is poverty reduction.
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Oo. And I think it is in the agriculture that poverty is very rampant.
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Mahihirap ang nasa agriculture.
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Kaya I thought that if I'm going to improve the lives of people in the Philippines,
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I have to do it in agriculture because that's the only way I can do it.
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I have to do it in agriculture because napakaliit po ng kita ng mga farmers natin.
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Imagine ang coconut farmers, 1,500 a month, ang rice farmer, 5,000 a month.
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Ikita ba yun? Iwala ba yun sa minimum wage?
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At least dapat, mga minimum wage man lang para naman makasupport sa kanilang pamilya
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na magandang pakakain nila sa kanilang mga anak.
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Pag-usapan natin yung ating huling pinag-usapan.
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Dalaga, dumalaw ko dito noong 2019.
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Napag-usapan nga natin yung rice tarification.
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Kumusta na po yan?
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What has it done to the country at update lamang sa ating mga kababayan?
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It came about because, di ba, pag nag-i-import tayo ng rice, Vietnam.
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And they pay tariff, they pay for transportation, mas mura pa rin sila.
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Kasi based on a PIDS study,
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ang Vietnam produces palay at 6 pesos per kilo, tayo 12.50.
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So inaralan nila, ano ba ang cost ng 12.50 versus 6 peso?
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So nadiscovered nila,
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na-mechanize sila, ang labor nila lower by 3.50 per kilo.
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Kaya napansin nyon, kasi biglang tumaas ang bigas
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from 32 to 40 per kilo noong 2018,
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E di syempre, alam mo, yung pagtaas ng presyo ng bigas
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na nagkoko-cost ng abalone,
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E di syempre, alam mo, yung pagtaas ng presyo ng bigas
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na nagkoko-cost ng abalone,
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kaya na-alarm ang administration.
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So they talked to me to pass the rice tarification law.
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Ili-liberalize ang importation of rice.
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But I agreed to do that.
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But they will give all the proceeds of the tariff to the farmers.
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Kasi ano isasama ng law,
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lahat ng pera makukulekta, ibabalik sa iyo.
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We created the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund.
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Ang una nilang sabi sa akin, makukulekta daw 12 billion.
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So yung 10 billion, nilagay ko na agad para sigurado
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dun sa Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund,
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na mamibigay yung 5 billion,
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mamimigay ng machinery to mechanize rice farming.
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Ito yung tractor, transplanter, harvester, milling, at saka drying.
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So mula nung ito'y naging batas noong 2019,
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noong kapanahonan ni President Duterte,
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Hindi na tumahas ang price.
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Hindi na tumahas ang price ng rice.
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At saka ano pa ang na-achieve ng rice tarification?
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Sabi ng PhilRice kasi sila ang may productivity per hectare.
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ang productivity per hectare is 3.7 metric tons per hectare.
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Ngayon daw nasa 4.4 na tayo.
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Tingin nila kaya nila by 2024, 5 metric tons per hectare.
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And if I extend the rice tarification law,
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they can hit 6 metric tons per hectare.
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Paano niyo nilalabanan yung inyong mga kalaban noon?
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Dahil nung nag-usap tayo,
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there was some resistance to the rice tarification.
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Eh kasi nung una, siyempre hindi nila alam.
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Nung namimigay na ng equipment, na namimigay ng rice,
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dito ang tuwa na mga farmer.
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Iwanan natin ang rice tarification.
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Puna naman ho tayo sa composting.
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Dahil nabasa ko ito that Las Piñas just won a global award
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given by one of the most prestigious environmental award-giving body sa Austria.
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Pwentuhan mo kami, Senador, tungkol dito sa composting.
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Ano ito? Ano ang nagagawa nito sa environment at sa kasabayan?
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Kasi itong composting ko started when I became congresswoman of Las Piñas.
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So, yung maganda dito sa composting,
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yung mga kitchen and garden waste natin,
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nagiging organic fertilizer.
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Noon, mura pa fertilizer.
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So that was not very before.
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But naisip ko, kesa naman kukunin pa ng baso,
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di gawin na lang fertilizer.
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Anong masama na may fertilizer ka?
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Kasi 50% of our waste are kitchen and garden waste.
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Kung hindi mo yan ibibigay sa basorero,
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edi nakatipid ka ng 50% of your expense, di ba?
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Tapos pinabangan ko pa,
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naging organic fertilizer pa.
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Hindi na tayo bibili ng fertilizer,
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yun na lang ang gagamitin natin.
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So, syempre noong una,
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e ako hindi ako masyado nadidiscourage agad.
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Di kung ayaw nyo, di wag kayo.
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Kung yung may gusto, may gusto.
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So, nag-start ako dahan-dahan.
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Yung may mga gusto, pinibigyan ko.
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Ako nabili through our foundation
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kasi wala pa naman gano'ng program ang government.
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So, kinontinue ko yun hanggang ngayon.
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Today, I have 89 composters.
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And each composter is producing
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1,000 kilos of organic fertilizer every month.
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E ngayon, tuan-tua sila sa organic fertilizer
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kasi nagmahal, nag-triple ang fertilizer.
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So, may extra, ano,
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may extra income.
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Tapos, alam mo ba,
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since it's 50% of the waste,
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we have brought down the,
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expense of Las Piñas
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to bring their waste
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into the landfill in San Mateo
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from P400 million a year
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to P100 million a year.
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Kasi we are recycling 75% of our waste
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kasi yung plastic, 15% yan.
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Ginagawa akong school chair.
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And then, yung paper,
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binibili yan ng ano eh,
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kasi there is a recycling paper factory in Pampanga
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and the owner told me
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na even if we sell to them all our waste paper,
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they still import waste paper.
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They still import waste paper.
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Kaya, between the two of them,
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15% din yun, di 80%.
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tinatanong ko itong aking munisipyo,
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P100 million lang kami a year.
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Instead of the P400 million.
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Munti mo savings yun.
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Sinator, ito ba'y pwedeng magawa ng buong?
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In fact, because I'm successful,
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I'm giving every year
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to the Bureau of Soil and Water Management
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money so that they will distribute
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composting machine in all the towns and cities
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in the Philippines.
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This year, I gave them P3 billion
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so they can distribute P3,000.
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Ang towns and cities natin,
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Di pwede pang tigda dalawa.
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Ako, pinipilit ko sila
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kasi ano masama na
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meron ka ng organic fertilizer,
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malinis pa bayan mo.
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Ilalagay mo lang naman sa tabi ng palengke.
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Nandun lahat ang kitchen and garden waste.
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Tapos, libre na sa farmer yun.
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Kesa ang iniimport natin yung fertilizer,
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P20 billion na yun.
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Sinator, when you introduce
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new concepts like this,
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ano yung mga karanasan nyo po
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doon sa pagtanggap
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o di kaya resistance?
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Pero that doesn't mean stacking.
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That doesn't deter.
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Basta sa mind ko, tama siya.
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Kung sila ayaw nila,
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ito bigay ko doon sa may gusto.
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After a while naman, gusto na rin.
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Pag naprove nila na maganda,
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naingit din e, humihingi din e.
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Munti mo kami ngayon 89,
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And munti mo naman nakikinabang sa amin
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yung lahat ng humihingi sa akin ng seeds.
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Kasama, fertilizer,
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Nagdi-distribute ako ng seeds,
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para ma-encourage ang vegetable gardening.
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pag tinatamaan yung northern luzon ng bagyo,
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nagmamahal sa Maynila
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at sa ibang neighboring cities
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O di kung nagtatanim tayo ng vegetable,
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wala tayong problema.
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We produce our own.
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In fact, in Las Piñas,
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we have a contest every May.
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The best vegetable garden
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and in a subdivision.
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Three categories.
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ang sumali, limang po.
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Kasi ini-encourage ko na,
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lalo na yung mahihirap na lugar,
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para pag nawala ng trabaho,
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e di kumain ng vegetable.
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Ang vegetable, mas healthy pa yan.
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And you even cover backyard farming?
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Which I think is very important.
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Kasi nasanay din po ako
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na halos bawat bahay
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What is most fulfilling about this, Senador?
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as a government official,
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what is the most fulfilling part
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about what you do?
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Kasi you must be remembered
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for something good.
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And you want to be remembered
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Yeah, I want to be remembered for this.
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I made a difference
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in the lives of farmers
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and the poor people
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If I were to ask you
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how much you have in cash
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magkano ko ang naman?
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Pero between the two of you,
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kayo ni Sen. Manny,
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who holds the purse?
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ano po ang inyong dasal gabi-gabi?
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You're at the entrance of heaven
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My daughter Cynthia,
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what was the best thing
