Almanaki kan mga Parauma: An Pagpatarabangtabang sa Banwa Kinakaipuhan (Rice Stem Borer) (Bikol poster distributed in the Philippines)
A Bikol-language cartoon almanac sheet of 15 black-and-white panels headed 'E.C.A.', explaining how the rice stem borer destroys a crop and how farmers can stop it. Panels show the life cycle, a lamp trap over water and kerosene, cutting and burning affected plants, DDT spraying, ploughing and flooding, and neighbours working together. The headline says community cooperation is needed. The tell is plain-folks, with transfer: ordinary farmers carry practical advice, and a proverb about God helping those who help themselves is attached to it.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- December 12, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration (E.C.A.), as printed; distributed by the U.S. Information Agency series Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Science and technology, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia (NAID 1767935), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, December 12, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730060, 306-PPA-160).
Text on the object
[Emblem: E.C.A.] ALMANAKI KAN MGA PARAUMA IPINUBLIKAR KAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION KAN ESTADOS UNIDOS PARA SA IKAKARAHAY KAN MGA PARAUMA SA FILIPINAS. AN PAGPATARABANGTABANG SA BANWA KINAKAIPUHAN. MAPAPATONONG MO AN TAYANGAW! GIROMDOMON MO, NA AN DIOS MINATABANG SA MGA NAGTATABANG KAN SADIRING BUHAY NINDA MAN SANA. 1. MGA NATIPONTIPON NA BUNAY 2. AN MGA BUNAY NAHIHIMSA NA NAGING DARAKULANG ULOD 3. AN MGA ULOD MINAPAPOROPOT SA DAHON 4. AN ULOD MINALOHO SA LAWAS KAN TINANUM ASIN PINAGKAKAKAN AN LAWAS 5. PAKATAPOS NIN 25 ALDAW PAGKAKAN MINAPAHINGALO NA. 6. SA LAOG NIN 9 NA ALDAW NAGKAKAIGWA NIN MGA PAKPAK. INING MAY MGA PAKPAK NA INI MINABUNAY NIN MAS DAKUL. KUN PAPANO AN TAYANGAW NAGHIRO SA PAGDESTROSE. AN MGA SILONG PANDAKOP PWEDING MAGAMIT. ILAWAN AN TUBIG NA MAY GAS KUN DAKUL NA TAYANGAW AN NAGRALAYOG. HALION AN DENESTROSONG MGA TINANUM. SA MGA BAGONG TINANUM AN MGA BAGONG DAHON NAGKAKAARALANG. HALION AN GABOS NA MGA AWOT ASIN DAGAMI SA SIMILYAHAN ANTES KAN PAGTANUM. HANAPON AN KADAKLAN KAN MGA BUNAY SA SIMILYAHAN. DAI IPAGTANUM AN SIMILYANG DENESTROSO KAN MGA BUNAY. DAI PAGDESTROSOHON AN MGA BUNAY, ILAOG SA LAOGAN NA MAY TUBIG. BUGTAKAN AN TUBIG KI GAS. HALION AN DENESTROSONG MGA TINANUM. AN MGA DARAKULA NANG TINANUM NAKAKAPAGPAHILING KAN GINIBOHAN KAN TAYANGAW. AN IATAKI NA KAN TAYANGAW MAPUTI AN LAWAS ASIN NAWAWARA AN LAOG KAN BUNGA. [reading uncertain] AN PAGHALI KAN DENESTROSONG TINANUM PUTULON SA POON. TIPONON ASIN SULUAN. HALION AN MGA AWOT, TA DIAN AN SAINDANG EROKAN. SA PALAKAW NA INI, MAY SARADIT NA MGA HAYOP NA NABUBUHAY NA MINAGADAN KAN TAYANGAW. AN DDT NAKAKAGADAN KAN TAYANGAW GAMITON AN 2½-5% NA LANANG DDT. WIRIKAN NAMAN SA LAOG NIN 7 ALDAW. PWEDE MONG MAHAPOT AN SIMONG SUPERBISOR SA PAGTANUM. SA KABASAN NA DAKULA AN DESTROSO ARADOHON TOLOS PAKATAPOS KAN PAGANI O PATUBIGAN AN KABASAN NIN SARONG SEMANA. KUN AN KATANING MO ATAKIHON KAN TAYANGAW, TABANGAN MO KAN PANG GADAN, TA AN SAIMONG KABASAN AN ISUSUNOD. DAI KA MAGHALAT SATALAGA NIN DIOS KUN AN TAYANGAW PINAGATAKI AN SAIMONG ANIHON. MAGTARABANG KAMO ASIN SAIMONG KATARANING. GADANON AN TAYANGAW!
Farmers' Almanac, published by the Economic Cooperation Administration of the United States for the welfare of farmers in the Philippines. Cooperation in the community is needed. You can stop the stem borer! Remember that God helps those who help themselves. [Life cycle:] 1. eggs gathered together 2. the eggs hatch and become larvae 3. the larvae bore into the leaf 4. the larva moves into the plant's body and eats it 5. after 25 days of eating it rests 6. within 9 days it grows wings; those with wings lay more eggs. How the stem borer does its destruction. [Control:] Catching nets can be used. Light a lamp over water with kerosene when many borers are flying. Remove the damaged plants. Remove all weeds and grasses in the seedbed before planting. Look for the egg masses in the seedbed; do not plant seedlings damaged by eggs. Do not destroy the eggs [by throwing away]; put them in a container with water and add kerosene. Remove the damaged plants; cut them at the base, gather and burn them. Remove the weeds, since that is their hiding place. On this occasion there are a few creatures that live by preying on the borer. DDT can kill the borer: use a 2.5-5% DDT solution, spray within 7 days; you can ask your farm supervisor. In large fields plough at once after harvest or flood the field for a week. If your neighbour's field is attacked by the borer, help him kill it, for yours is next. Do not wait on God's will while the borer attacks your harvest. Work together with your neighbours. Kill the borer! [Translation is literal and approximate; several words are uncertain.]
Panels are transcribed in reading order, row by row; the spelling is as printed and several words are uncertain. The translation is literal and approximate.
