The law exists. The building does not.
When the price of onions doubled, a law was signed. When pork became unaffordable, another law was signed.
Politically it sounds powerful. Economically it does not build a single cold storage unit.
You cannot legislate supply and demand.
A farmer loses a large share of his harvest before it reaches a buyer. Not because of a smuggler. Because there is no cold storage in his province, because the farm-to-market road is broken, because the produce is dying before the truck arrives.
A law signed in the capital does not stop that.
What most people missed
Buried inside the same legislation is this: cold storage facilities granted by government to cooperatives are for the exclusive use of their farmer and fisherfolk members.
The permission was written. The cooperative is the legal owner. The building does not exist yet.
The paper exists. The infrastructure does not.
The law is not entirely wrong. Smuggling is real. Price manipulation is real. But a threat of imprisonment does not lower the cost of fertiliser, fix the irrigation, or build the refrigerated truck the farmer has needed for twenty years.
What the cooperative builds instead
Twenty farming families together can fund the cold storage the legislation assumed and never provided.
Solar on the roof. Maintained by the members. Legally theirs.
What covers the days the sun does not come depends on where the building stands. That is not an opinion — it is a reading, and it is the first one to take, before anything is bought.
If yes, protect it.
If no, find out why — before the next harvest rots and another law gets signed.
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