Small farmers were simply not allowed to be part of the mainstream financial system. The assault is so routine that the evil impact of that assault on small farmers and their little lives remind many of the phrase “banality of evil.”PD 717, again, was radical on paper. And improved the lives of small farmers in the process, rice and corn farmers in particular. The LBP is Exhibit B of the paper-only credit extension to small farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries. The new generation of Marcoses and Aquinos all make it a point to shaft the small farmers.

Source: Manila Times July 08, 2017 17:48 UTC