Director of Agriculture Rickey Brumant has told the young people in Dominica that the survival of the country’s struggling agriculture sector depends on their involvement.
Brumant made these remarks at the start of a national youth policy forum on Wednesday.
He said agriculture is usually deemed a “dirty, back bending” job which is not profitable.
But according to Brumant, agriculture is one of the most profitable businesses in the world.
“There are people who farm and would encourage their children to do it. There are people who are farming professionals and make other careers a part time hobby. People say agriculture is hard working, back bending, but we have learned exactly what agriculture means to us. Agriculture and its succession depends on the youth,” he said.
Brumant said, however, in order to achieve success within the agriculture sector; tools and mechanisms must be put in place by government.
“I believe we must set the stage for youth to take action. We must set the stage for them to participate, for them to work and for them to belong,” he said.
Once we can teach young ppl to c agri as a business they will adapt it we can cum together an form clusters n c wat our country can offer to other country n market
I think market is very important young ppl willing to go in ag
riculture once we can teach them to c agri as a business
Stop watching his face n think of the misery dats coming our way.hr will not share his fat pay packet with u u cant eat the pic fool
All time the prime minister continue to ly in the pple faces n the prise n pastors n the pple in high places refuses to talk out banana n many others will get less n less bside dats part og our punishment for the wrath we place on dis county lord pray for us
Labour party kill argeculture.dey needed fast money.young blood. Money hungers.evil mineded young men.dey soul the pple soul for money.may the lord deliever us blood n money suckers
please fix the countrys side roads now
“But according to Brumant, agriculture is one of the most profitable businesses in the world.”(Rickey).
Rickey, that is according to your theory and philosophy!
Do you remember the days of communism; when the former Soviet Union attempted to colonized the world?
Their philosophy, and vision for the world was agriculture now, agriculture tomorrow and forever. None of the followers (countries) of communism indulged into the industrialization of their country, even Cuba based their economy on agriculture until communism failed.
China for more than a hundred years depended on agriculture, their main staples, and export product was rice, thus China with the worlds largest population remained the poorest nation on earth until they shed their ideology of dependency on agriculture, and industrialized their country, today China loans money to the United States, of America, and other nations around the world.
I can understand it if you suggested we maintain agriculture so as to provide us with most of the staples we need for our personal survival; we have to eat, vegetables are an important part of our diet, therefore we have to avoid the importation of what we can produce, but to try to influence people that agriculture is one or the most profitable in the world is nothing more than a lie you hatched in hell!
I live in a country where we see farmers go out of business every day of the week, all due to a lack of profit, form sale of agricultural products; all you have to do is visit places such as Oklahoma and Arkansas which might be the two major agriculture States, where you will find millions of archers of farm land and machinery lying idle, out of business, due to lack of profit.
If you do not believe me, call Emlord Timothy of Wesley, one who farmed all his life, in Dominica and ask him to explain to you what he saw and experienced while he was in Oklahoma, he was astonished to see as many farms that could be bought for pennies on the dollar.
So, when people like you want to talk and impress Dominicans, you need to be very careful with the crap you speak , because plenty of us are ahead of you; we are better informed, and will call you out on the crap you spew.
Here we have people excelling in academics in our country, and rather than you encouraging the industrialization of the country so that when they graduate from collage and Universities they can return home and serve their country, you come talking nonsense; why don’t you go and break your bloody back on some rugged mountain planting agricultural products, and see how you like it.
Even Russia the former head of the soviet agricultural nation has since industrialized, and in the process has become one of the most developed place in the universe.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Stuppessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, more idle talk fromn another member of the cabal.
We need good leaders to speak to our young people, or else they will never listen.
The Idiocy of these people is noxious to the bleeding Heart of my Country. I Pray that she is able to withstand the inertia of her lifeless soul.
how are we suppose to get into agriculture when the government only cares about development of tourism? fertilizer is extremely high,feeder roads are impassable and still no markets for produce?
I concur… I have personally began my own vegetable garden and it is very rewarding…
I have only just began and learning.
With youtube and google, I am learning very quickly how ot care for certain plants and the do’s and dont’s
My wish one day is to be completely self reliant on the food I grow.
Is this the guy who came on radio with a list of delinquent farmers just to justify the failure of the agriculture ministry.
I must admit that I was shock to hear that 80% of the farmers who borrow from the bank were in arrears. Now if the stats indicated 15 – 30 % then I would be inclined to scrutinize that 15-30 % of the farmers but for common sense and humility sake 80% says that something is wrong with the system, the administration.
If the system was efficiently managed why did Brumant and Walter allow the situation to get so bad
Go into to agriculture fine, but where is the market? Cause we cant depend on the local one its too small and way to unstable. when the government starts to look for a market (a stable one and not just local) then we young people will take that risk of going to agriculture.
What’s the agricultural sector offering the youth ? Are we seeking to sell on the big markets such as Europe,America and Asia?
the youth cannot even buy rollon and you asking them to go into agriculture when a bag of fertilizer is $121…
you doh see them man mad, boy just enjoy your job because you did not earn it just like the other incompetents from vielle case in position…skerrit put you there just collect your salary and try not to embarass yourself
How can we go forward in coming up with recommendations for a Caribbean Agriculture Policy when for donkey years now we working on a National Ag policy… (can someone recall when was the national consultation on invest in agriculture save Dominica held) and it still in draft, meaning the Govt has not accepted it as its official policy document …. so at the moment Dominica does not have an official Ag policy…. Consultants upon consultants have come down facilitating the policy development process and yet we still aint got it right… So on what National policy strategy (best practices) are we informing CARICOM.
This initiative must start with the schools, dedicate a period for farming during school periods. Also, farming should include animal nurturing and raising.
a bunch of whoopla, these ppl have never given youth any importance in relation to agriculture… if it wasn’t for NAYA we would never even have had any youth initiatives in agriculture over the past ten years
i agree 100% with mister brumant. we the youths sud get more involved in agriculture….. it really is the most profitable job……….
where are the roads leading to the farm lands just spent two weeks in da deceided to follow my dad to garden and i was put half way to my dad farm and had to walk before it was a quick drop off to my dad farm the roads are all bad, bad with holes,poor drainage,that where it should all begins fixing them and then youth with enjoy doing farming and on my next visit i will help my daddy carry a bag of dasheens,plantains oranges,such areas as carhome,cuba brush morne with no complains that there to far bad roads.
Brumant and all kill agriculture just cheap talk ask the people on the east coast about this they will tell u these guys are earning big bucks for little work
Mister cute eh? What boy! (very sad that this is all I take away from the article)
Yes M. Brumant, you are perfectly right. Agriculture is definitely the way to go in Dominica. This country is in need of a vibrant agriculutural sector and it is sad to see the youth’s lack of interest.
What programs are available to entrepreneurs to get involved in agriculture?
So Mr. Brumant, How are you all going to “set the stage”? What measures are going to be taken to get the youth on board?