These days the major topic revolves around, why nothing ever got off the ground since the last meeting and what can be done to revive it. In other words “Lets try to whip some life into this dead horse one more time”

Their hearts and minds are in the right place, but their execution models are all wrong. Innovation is the key to success in the 21 century, not agriculture, not food security, not sustainable development in the conventional sense that they envisage.

No investment venture will ever be successful without examining it, within the context and frame work of what impact the world economic crisis will have on such ventures. We must be able to look at todays events and accurately predict tomorrow’s future trends.

They continue to place emphasis on agriculture but successful profitable agriculture of the perishable type that we can produce needs a host of support infrastructure. We need a small convoy of cooler trucks and ships. These essential requirements and support systems, are energy intensive.

Therefore we need to first look at the energy and transportation capacity that we have. We also need to compliment this capacity by our own green energy supplies. We must own and control as large a percentage of the proccesses as possible or we will not be able to compete on the price market.

Great tourist luxury liners pull into Caribbean vacation spots day in day out. The Guyanese enterprise need to have a similar amount of ships visiting those same islands with supplies of fresh organic fruits and vegetables for the tourists. To achieve this we must become a nation of maritime ship builders and sailors.

In the USA there is an army of trucks hauling this produce night and day non stop. Produce do not appear on shop shelves by magic.That is what we have to do with a flotilla of ships if we are to achieve any measure of success in agriculture.

Joe.