Comments on: So how is Guyana doing in agri drive?

By: Light

Light — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:10 +0000

Energy is costly, then, the government should have policies and programs, to move the country rapidly away from the use of traditional fossil fuels, to alternative energy/electricity; solar, wind, hydro etc., as been done in Europe, Japan and other parts of the world.

And, incentivise citizens, particularly, the young, poor and vulnerable with education, skills training, finance, loans, land and the neccessary infrastructure, to establish micro and medium businesses, and to settle and farm in the fertile and untapped interior of the country, away from the flood prone coastal areas – which is increasingly costly to maintain and rehabilitate, after ech flooding.

Give the land to the landless, to be productive and help eradicate their state of economic insecurity and fear.

By: Brandon Samaroo (PPP is now the new and improved PNC Dictatorship)

Brandon Samaroo (PPP is now the new and improved PNC Dictatorship) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:38:49 +0000

The broken record has all you ppp soup lickas in turmoil, you can’t sleep at night hahahahhahah and I am enjoying every bit of it.

I will continue to haunt you fellas until you start waking up and being truthful to indians in Guyana that the PPP is a waste of time.

Ravi Dev started it and I will continue to run with that torch,.

By: quibian

quibian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:35:19 +0000

sa-moron, you sounding like a broken record. give it up. you already done campaigning in toronto for the all fee cee?

By: Caesar Agustus

Caesar Agustus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:00:09 +0000

You know something. You always read about something going on in the agri drive.But you never hear about the results.

By: You Can Live Forever(-60)

You Can Live Forever(-60) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:12 +0000

Easy to convert 1 000 kg = 1 ton.
2.4 million kg = 2,400 tons.

By: Brandon Samaroo (PPP is now the new and improved PNC Dictatorship)

Brandon Samaroo (PPP is now the new and improved PNC Dictatorship) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:36:50 +0000

what are you doing in america solideer why are you still in america, get your sorry ungrateful tail back to Guyana now.

You are hollering about these people in Barbados why dont you go and live under jagdeo now? stop all the hideous talk man go back and hug jagdeo.

It is funny how Karan Singh, JAgdeo’s lacky run back to canada as soon as he got canned from GWI. Nobady ain’t want to live under jagdeo and the PPP that is clear as day.

By: Soldier

Soldier — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:41:19 +0000

That is why Barbados throwing them back in Guyana,,, They can make decent living in Guyana by farming but foreign mindedness take them to all parts of the world to do the same job and even worst…

By: storme williams

storme williams — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:23:19 +0000

We want the measurement in production to be in metric tons not kilos. I remember during the PNC days production was measured in kilos to make the numbers look large and the PPP was very critical. Now they are doing the same thing. Its is time for the PPP and PNC to go.

By: Satish

Satish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:24:07 +0000

The SN photo of Mr Persaud grinning is most inappropriate to this sad, sad story.

Why did SN have to REQUEST EXPORT DATA?????
If indeed the minister is right when he claims export of produce has risen, then why did he not turn up to the interview with the hard facts.

SN is on the right track when they decided recently to publish weekly economic indicators and Mr Persaud can learn a lot from this.

The minister is most strange when he says there is competition for land for farming!
Guyana with its 1 million people is the same size a s the UK with its 80 million people. LAND SHOULD BE FORCED-FED TO GUYANESE FARMERS.
If the farmers do not use it, then the government reclaims it!!!!!!!!

No mention of soya crops and complaints of population growth and scarcity of arable lands leaves me speechless.

By: Justice

Justice — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:36:58 +0000

the Grow More campaign could have been a good initiative, but it was reduced to a political campaign and used as an opportunity to sing praises to the govt. I wiil not be relying on no stats provided by the Minister. We know that will be cooked up by GINA to suit their purpose. What I can say for sure is that the results of the program is not visible or might be non existent. it was a failure. How did he expect to increase export by walking around sharing out seeds to households? a kitchen garden might help the individual cause, but will certainly not increase export.

The Minister clearly lacks the technical and managerial knowledge to pull of the project. this is the downside of employing party stalwarts in critical positions instead of suitablily qualified persons. the project lacked emphasis on key areas such as quality control and pest control. you cannot expect kitchen garden produce to be of export quality. SN next time ask him about the bull nose pepper project, and how much was spent on it. that too was a failure. the project was killed by diseases and pests. a simple dry run and proper research would have detected this before all that money was expended. the Minister can go right nexr door to Suriname and see what large scale farming is like.
The minister is too preoccupied with his political ambitions and with sounding good in the media. Failing to realize that the ones listening to him are the same ones facing hardship on the ground.