Unida primer

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Ike Señeres

How can convergence happen on the environmental side? First, we have to restore our environment, and then we have to preserve it. Restoration and preservation are the twin approaches that are needed in order to ensure higher productivity and long term sustainability of the environment.

Every piece of land, every sphere of air and each body of water in our territory has to be made productive, and sustained on the long term. How can we make every piece of land productive?

Agroforestry is the technology that UNIDA will promote to make every piece of land productive. Agroforestry is the combination of agriculture and forestry technologies, but without the plantation method. According to Joseph Reynolds, a member of UNIDA, agriculture was built on the back of slaves. This is a true observation, because it was the plantation method that encouraged the growth of slavery.

Today, many plantation workers are still laboring under slave-like conditions. In agreement with Mr. Reynolds, UNIDA will pursue the biodiversity method instead; growing and raising plant life and animal life together in restored and preserved forests, both in urban and rural settings.

How can we make every sphere of air productive? Aerophonics is the technology that UNIDA will promote to make every sphere ofair productive. Aerophonics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment, without the use of soil or any other growing medium. In some ways it is similar to hydrophonics, except that the latter uses water or water based solutions as the growing medium.

How can we make each body of water productive? Aquafarming is the technology that UNIDA will promote to make each body of water productive. These bodies of water will include the natural forms such as the seas, lakes, rivers and streams, as well as the manmade forms such as swimming pools, fish ponds and fish tanks. Mr. Enrique Macadangdang, a member of UNIDA says that fish could now be grown anywhere and everywhere, even in the mountains, for as long as fish tanks could be built, and for as long as clean water could be made available. In Europe , some countries are already growing salmon in factory buildings.

What is the correlation between connectivity and automatibility? Automatibility is necessary in order to achieve higher productivity. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are now available in the market. In a manner of speaking, PLCs are the industrial equivalents of personal computers (PCs). PCs are used foroffice automation, whereas PLCs are used for factory automation, PLCs are used to control machinery, running on programs that are designed to work repeatedly, such asrepetitive manufacturing processes. Through the combination of connectivity and automatibility, factories could integrate their backend production activities with their front end marketing activities.

What is farm automation? Farm automation is the goal of modernizing all land, air and water production activities though the use of PLCs.

How will UNIDA promote farm and factory automation? UNIDA will offer training services and financing services to cooperatives and enterprises, leading to the adoption and implementation of farm and factory automation.

What is the correlation between training and financing? Many cooperatives and enterprises fail because of the lack of coordination between the training aspects and the financing aspects. As a remedy to this problem, UNIDA is going to make sure that the training provided will qualify the borrowers to pass the financing requirements of the lending institutions.

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