We were talking to a lady who was buying seeds at the Allied Botanical Corporation a couple of days ago. She and her husband who are early retirees from their employment opted to go into farming in their 4.5-hectare farm in Tanay, Rizal.

She confessed that their big problem is the lack of reliable farm workers. At present, they have two farm workers but the big trouble is that they are very lazy. They used to have more hardworking workers but because tourism is booming somewhat in Tanay, they gave up their farm work to become tricycle drivers. The lady could understand their decision. They make more money driving tricycle than being farm workers.

The lady from Tanay is not alone in their predicament. A number of our readers have been asking us to recommend farm workers for them. We usually beg off from recommending workers, however. That’s because we don’t really know how our recommendees will perform.

Maybe, giving incentives in the form of bonus if they perform well could attract more hardworking farm workers. Maybe, a share of the profit will also work.