Dear Editor,

We are now using every available method and opportunity to let everyone know how important it is to grow more food on every available piece of land at our disposal. Of course this is the right thing to do but we should have been doing it a long long time ago. I can remember that the late President Forbes Burnham coined the phrase ‘Produce or perish’ and ‘Feed, clothe and house’ the nation. The late President Cheddi Jagan also used to say how important it was that we strove for maximum yields and diversify into other crops apart from rice……