Canals offer hope for Supenaam but farmers battling `dry leaf’, low prices

(This is the 11th in a series on the Government’s Grow More Food campaign)

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Experiencing a decline in logging, residents of the Supenaam Creek are returning to farming with new lands being opened as the government digs canals in the area.

“Agriculture is a new venture”, said Secretary of the Combined Farmers Venture, Cheryl Sandy. She said that logging activities in the area – a major economic activity that provided many jobs, is declining and with canals being dug resulting in more lands being accessible, …..


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