The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica through the Ministry of Public Works, Public Utilities and the Digital Economy under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project continues to advance activities aimed at reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts. One such activity is the “Development and Analysis of the National Soil Mapping System”.
The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica Ministry of Public Works, Public Utilities and the Digital Economy has entered into a contract with the National commodities Management Services Limited (NCML) Remote Sensing Instrument (RSI) (Joint Venture) – India, for the Development and Analysis of the National Soil Mapping System”.
NCML/RSI will be on island partnering with the critical stakeholders primarily the Divisions of Agriculture, Forestry, Dominica State College and others during its forty-five (45) day exercise.
The purpose of the soil mapping project is to collect various soil samples across Dominica which will allow for the development of predictive models on soil properties across the island. From these models, land use interpretations for each landscape can be determined to provide a baseline for evaluating the impacts of management practices across various sectors such as agriculture, land use planning, engineering, forestry, water resource management, among others.
The soil mapping project is being implemented under the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project (DVRP) through grant funding from the World Bank and will be executed and completed by October 2023.
The DVRP seeks the cooperation and understanding of the public and private landowners in grantingaccess to the team members and its partners to lands, and to facilitate the extraction of small samples of soils.
This is an opportune time to undertake an exercise to better inform us of our soil properties.
Let’s all play our part in building a resilient Dominica!
Again, one more headline to dupe the people into thinking that positive things are happening in this desolate, barren economy.
The curtains should be pulled back, and the veil should be lifted, to expose the true backwardness of Dominica. It is as if Roosevelt is driving the country in reverse.
This corrupt, prolific LIAR (Roosevelt) has reversed the enormous gains that were made in agriculture, agro-processing, manufacturing, sports (football, basketball, netball, cricket), self sufficiency. Every aspect of the economy and life has been irreparably vandalised by the chief crook. He has spent the last twenty (20) years writing graffiti on the most revered institutions of the country.
Remote sensing and other forms of land survey are all well and good, but pointless unless the resulting warning signs are adhered to. Most of our catastrophes are the result of civil engineering blunders, rather than perceived climate change. The ongoing situation at Antrim being a case in point.
The NCML/RSI team members are welcome to visit my property to see first-hand the what has been brought about; not by an Act of God but by the Folly of Man. And while they are at it, they may find a report that I recently submitted to the Ministry of Public Works of interest.
I submitted the report in the hope that it may prevent similar catastrophes in the future. It is titled: “ANTRIM ALERT: A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF LAND MOVEMENT AT ANTRIM”. It covers in detail events between dumping the spoil from Red Gully in 2009 to the present.
I am playing my part as requested but await courtesy of acknowledgment of the report’s receipt from the Minister and his Permanent Secretary.