The triad communities of Petite Soufriere, San Sauveur and Good Hope are being urged to take farming more seriously and to take advantage of available opportunities.
Agricultural Extension Officer for the East, Edward Constance was one of a number of panelists who participated in a discussion on Wednesday, on the way forward in reviving the Agricultural Sector.
“There are still opportunities for farmers in this community” Constance emphasized.
He is encouraging farmers in the area to be consistent and committed while ensuring that they are able to help produce crops for markets that depend on them.
Constance also urged farmers to attend educational training seminars, get to know new techniques and go into the farming business on a large scale for better economic rewards.
Meanwhile Parliamentary Representative Johnson Drigo has suggested that the communities would benefit more from a “home grown Huckster” in their midst.
The three communities have also been inform that they can look forward to a new feeder road (farm access road) coming on stream soon, as well as two new farmer groups and a boat for the shipment of Agricultural produce.
We already know that lol.
Tell Drigo…..the longest road has a bend and the longest rope has its end….tell him, he and the skerro cabal days are numbered..we the youths CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE FOOLED ANYMORE…..we are waiting for the next election to deal with that government…..NO AMOUNT OT SEEWO can save skero and that wicked government now
THE BEST TRADE IS AGRICULTURE ,,,,WHETHER IT CONCERNS LIVE STOCKS OR GARDENING ,,,WE MUST ADMIT THAT LONG AGO OUR PARENTS TAUGHT US EVERY THING IN BOTH FIELDS ,NOW MOST PARENTS THINK IT’S A SHAME TO BE A GARDENER ,,,AT THE END OF THE DAY WHAT EVER TRADE YOU ARE IN AFTER WORK YOUR TUMMY CALLS FOR SOMETHING ,SIMPLE ;FOOD…WHICH SHOWS US THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE…
The Labour Party Government has failed the young people of Dominica and the Agriculture sector by not implementing Policies of the United Workers Party to introduce Agriculture as part of the school curiculum and discontinuation of the Young Farmers recruitment and development programme.
It would be an utter disgrace if the people of these three communities allow themselves to be bamboozled again and again. What opportunities are there in agriculture in Dominica? Is it an opportunity to compete with imported cabbage, carrots and the like? Is it an opportunity to invest in planting crops which cannot be sold? Is it an opportunity not to get any fertilizer to help production? What opportunity? You people need to grow a conscience. I know Mr. Extension officer you are trying to hold on to your job but please, respect our people in the process.
Dominica and agriculture cannot be mentioned in the same sentence. Gone are the days of agriculture because our government does not want to invest in agriculture. There is always prospects but it needs the capital investment. When your ministry is ready to invest, we are ready to jump in. Until this happens, take your BS to your bed with you.
If the agriculture so good why jono and edo not going into it themselves?
I find it a joke to tell these people to go into agriculture? are their lands accessible?
will they find market for what they produce?
Get serious and stop trying to fool the people.
WOW! What is the meaning of opportunity? For real, when the farmers are so dejected and frustrated, how can the see “Opportunities?” Actions do speak louder than words! All these panel discussions, over and over again is really like old talk in rum shops: nothing comes out of them. Promises, promises, people clapping, at the end of the day, back to square one! To those who love the poor folks, who can easily be brain washed, please ease their tension! Please stop the old talk and allow bread and cheese to be eaten by all! Peace and Jah Guidance!
Magway Sa Drigo…eh beh weyyy…which ever DNO representative that was present at this discussion, didn’t you see the condition of the road? and this so called pal rep still have guts to talk bout feeder roads when he can’t even patch the holes, its people from this 3 villages wake up and open their eyes, they have been taken for rides all their life, poverty is on the increase, majority of of the students who finish school can’t find work to do,bay oil which is one of the main source of income in these villages and he’s not even saying he will find a way to export the oil, he want talk bout farming, when the farmers have been neglected for many years..my village people are so small minded and too political and is afraid to stand to the truth..but rather listening to this incompetent pal rep..
They like it so.
They like the hard time.
They like the poverty.
When they cannot take it again they will know how to vote.
Boat eh
Enough already. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Same tune. We are sick by all that PBS. When will the Rosalie to Soufriere road completed?
Constance “There are still opportunities for farmers in this community”. Are you for real Sir? You all have killed the little that farmers used to do ON THEIR OWN!!!
Farmers do not even know who are the EO’s!!! Many times, I truly wonder why are some people paid a salary. Thank God, Bois den does not need these so called lazy extension officers nor government assistance in that district.
Well said. As a resident of the area, I do not see Parlrep, EO, PO, DO, XO, ZO. I see no one!!! And so I conclude, no one cares for the farmers of PSANHOPE.
Tell Constance to go send his children to do the agriculture if it so good and have opportunity.
All of you are a bunch of jokers.None of the Agriculture people have the ability to move Dominica foward when it come to agriculture.All talk and no action.
Oh please..Ministry of Agriculture should take agriculture seriously..Matthew Walters.
Drigo you not easy nuh boy……”You can fool the people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Bob Marley