More than two decades after its establishment, the Urban Dairy Cattle Farmers Association has not been able to accomplish the primary task for which it was created: to bring a sense of order to urban cattle farming.
The absence of order is a matter of public knowledge. Stray cattle in parts of the city have become the bane of motorists’ existence. Home owners too must endure the menace of roaming cattle. Truth be told busy capitals are not suitable for cattle rearing but once you talk with the cattle farmers you begin to learn that as the capital has expanded, particularly southward, the problem of urban cattle rearing has become more acute.
Under pressure from threats to enforce municipal legislation regarding stray cattle, a small group of urban farmers banded themselves together to set up the association. The allocation of more than 800 contiguous acres of land at Tyd-en-vlyt, Haags Bosch and Perseverance on the East Bank Demerara saw each farmer being allocated
