HOW ARE THESE INJUSTICES SHOWN?

Below average minimum wage of 590, while the normal average wage rate is over 350 per day.

For perspective: A minimum wage is set as it is assumed that you will need a minimum of that amount to meet your needs daily alone. Hence, if you have a family and have different kinds of needs or type of consumption due to different age groups (children, elderly), then having lower minimum wage does not give the farmers any dignity to live.

Economic policies does not put them into key players: Rice tariffs lead to higher competition, meaning lower price and lower income

In fact, most of the farmers do not even own the crops they sell.

Encouragement for Foreign Firm establishments leads to purchasing some ancestral lands, forestry into plantations.

The by-product of these injustices is naturally the movement of labor to other industries. Statistics show that there is an increase in employment in services industries but has a decline in agricultural industry. In fact, demographics show that on average, a farmer is aged at 35+ which is alarming for labor retirement.

Another byproduct of the injustices is that the unprotected industry of agriculture in the Philippines has abused our farmers so badly that farmers liquidate their lands and refuse to cultivate their land. Example: Villar Corporation.

Overall, the fact that farmers choose to give up, shift their employment to services, and are aware and have accepted the injustices means this is a long-time problem, and the injustices are shown through their economic behavior and choices for their own utility and bloodline.