Improved road links could see the resuscitation of south-western Region Eight as a large producer of “environmentally adaptable crops” such as onions and Irish potatoes but for more perishable crops other constraints will have to be tackled if those are to be produced competitively.

Over three decades ago, a massive agriculture enterprise in the mountainous region saw the production of thousands of pounds of produce but this collapsed due to high transportation costs. The project, which ran from 1972 to 1976, …..