Seeing A Revolution, Viewing History

I attended the First National Sweet Sorghum RD&E Review and Planning Conference held March 12-14 in Batac, Ilocos Norte at the campus of the Mariano Marcos State University, after which I wrote my essay ‘Grey-To-Green Revolution’ (frankahilario.wordpress.com). I didn’t realize I was witness to a revolution until I got back home and thought about what to say about what happened in Batac. At home, I have just reread the Reader’s Digest article on Steve Wozniak who together with Steve Jobs started the personal computer revolution. Did they know they were making history and launching a revolution? No. They just believed in what they were doing, very passionately in fact. And I suppose that when you believe in what you are doing and are zealous about it, if you don’t create a revolution, you’re not a revolutionary – but I’m sure you will be fulfilled.

And me? I’m more than fulfilled. Today, I am fired with a vision for sweet sorghum as a miracle crop, one for both rich (you need millions of dollars to put up a distillery to make ethanol out of the cane) and poor (you don’t need fertilizers to grow sweet sorghum; you don’t even need irrigation – and you can produce your own sweet products from the raw sugar or jaggery). That’s why I call sweet sorghum ‘the rich man’s choice of a poor man’s crop‘ (frankahilario.com).