Venezuelan Ambassador to Dominica, Hayden Pirela, has urged this country never to stop agricultural production.
The Ambassador’s call came during a conference organized by the Embassy of Venezuela in Dominica, recently, as part of the “cooperation strategies in ALBA member countries”.
Ambassador Pirela made the point that “a country should never stop agricultural production.”
The main presenter at the conference was Venezuelan engineer and expert in agriculture, Juan Chavez, who explained the successes achieved by Venezuela in the agriculture sector in the last 14 years.
The presentation was attended by several Dominican producers as well Dominica’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Philbert Aaron, the Ambassador of Cuba to Dominica and a representative from the Brazilian Embassy in Dominica.
so DNO, the man in the yellow shirt not important? naming three and leaving one out…..ah….dat not nice…..at least say if he is a participant or something……..geez
Agriculture should be on the front burner as a viable econoic solution , the stigma associated with it is what is driing young minds away from the farms. Tourism we cannot deny but we need to be alot more self sufficient to obtain economic growth , and agriculture is one of the few ways we can .Dominicans need to eat more what they grow and grow more of what we eat and not just produce bur process more of what we produce .
In the year 2013, the Commonwealth of Dominica which should be the breadbasket of the OECS and the wider Caribbean needs a Venezuelan Ambassador to Dominica to tell them not to give up on Agriculture? Yes, because we have a Labour party government that has destroyed Agriculture in Dominica!
Agriculture ,the way we practice it in Dominica, is back-breakingly difficult and our culture does not encourage the youth to take it up. I am willing to bet that the average age of our farmers is sky rocketing because young people are not getting into it. We need to show how lucrative it can be if undertaken in a scientific and systematic way. If we concentrate on niche organic agriculture and get our people to reduce their addiction to foreign food (as well as finding ways to get our produce to compete properly price-wise on the local market), our agriculture will find its feet again. We can convince our youth that farming can be as lucrative (and not necessarily more difficult) than working in an office or driving a bus. This requires a collective effort … not looking down on people who choose that profession (do you advise your kids to become doctors or lawyers or to go and plant dasheen?), choosing local food over imported (rice or tania? .. goat meat or imported chicken .. local vegetables or tinned sweetcorn? .. Fresh fish or cod fish?) ..cracking down hard on larceny (how difficult is it to plant stuff only for somebody to steal it) and making it much easier to export our stuff , especially to the French islands whose demand for our products is huge.
but wait. should it take some ambassador out there to tell us down here that we should never give up on agriculture. WOW.WOW WOW . its like telling me that i should always eat for the day in other that my body stay strong.did i read or see correctly the statement from the ambassador, lets scroll up again, brb.
“Pirela, has urged this country never to stop agricultural production.”
You advised our people never to stop agricultural production. To me you are telling us no matter the consequences, keep on farming, even though the farm land we have has long become none-productive! Dominica is a very small island with a limited amount of farm land, of which every inch have been under cultivation continuously for more than sixty years!
Scientifically, we know that when land are cultivated for a period of five years, the land should be rested for a period of five years, if you continue to cultivate without resting the land all of the nutrients in the land will be usurp, and the land becomes nonproductive.
Every agriculturists, and agronomist knows that.
At this point it matters not what amount of fertilizer one spread on the land the ammonia, and the different chemicals in the fertilizer, only helps to diminish the natural nutrients in they dirt, rendering the land useless. How come you do not advised Venezuelans never to stop breaking their backs in agriculture?
Certainly you will not do that because you produce oil, and your country’s economy depends not on agriculture, nevertheless, many other industries apart from oil! We need more than an agriculture economy. Encourage some industrialization, if you are not prepared to advised the industrialization of our country, perhaps it would better to simply shut up, and use your advise for some other purpose.
As of date Cuba has no economy: why? All because of their stupid communistic ideology; haven’t you notice two of the most prosperous nations in the world presently is China, and Russia, which once attempted to colonized to world, they wanted to make every nation communist, and indoctrinate the world into agriculture.
Communism failed, agriculture failed in China, as well as in Russia, and all of the former Soviet Union. I do not know why even some so called ministers of Government in Dominica continues to babble about agriculture, keeping people in bondage as some beast of burden, laboring without any benefits.
If you are concern about us, advise your government to give us what is belonging to us. Sign a release of Ave island (Bird island) to us; it rightly belongs to our people; hence we can explore it, and hopefully we will find some form of mineral, in the form of crud oil, which will be more beneficial to our economy than the none productive agriculture industry you are trying to bind on the backs of our well intelligent, and academically educated young generation.
And by the way, any government minister who insists that the youth of our country must burden themselves in agriculture, I challenge and advised them to go ahead, get out of government, and go and make a living planting bananas, where they will make more money hopefully than sucking the blood of the poor, if it is that comfortable, and profitable get involve; let’s see!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Jackass.
First of all, this ambassador is in Dominica to see how much of the Petro Caribe 26.6 million dollars which is owed to them, that he can take back in a briefcase to Venezuela. Now we have a situation where the role is reversed – it used to be money in a briefcase to Dominica. Secondly, the Venezuelan economy is in such shambles (54% inflation, an import bill of over 70%, state subsidies which they cannot sustain, a debt to China of a staggering $40million etc. )assistance in agriculture to Dominica is just a pipe dream . So this picture is purely a charade, this so called ambassador is here to pick up a cheque from Reggie Austrie and let’s be clear about that. Now where was Philbert Aaron when Severin Mckenzie wanted to ship toilet paper to Venezuela ?
You know my mind!ALBA SMALBA! We cannot even sell toilet paper to Venezuela but Skeritt giving away our money to get rid of the pit toilet .If I gave You a flush toilet You cannot just install it over the pit!first You need pipe borne water ,then You need a septic tank and finally You need a soak away.So Pee M when You talking Your whims We are not foolish enough to drink it !”Away with You Satan”
the ambassador is sending a technical note to skerrit, dont give up on agriculture because we have to pay our debt in oranges, grapefruits and coconuts..
The character Gary might want to way in on that. It was Gary who in defense of the Labor Party agriculture abandonment policy saud that a society based on agriculture is doomed.Thr total deception that the Labor Party and it hench men continue t ok impose on the people. Our country has never experience such level lies, deception and corruption.
Why is it you translate what you read into some thing you do not understand,regarding my past comments on Agriculture.The statement which you attributed to me regarding Agriculture is somewhat a fabrication on your part since I have never made such statement nor do I adhere to such a belief.
You have made such a nonsensical statement claiming that the I have defended the DLP Government Agriculture abandonment policy.My support and praise for the Government in developing our Tourism Industry is not in any way conveying an anti Agriculture stance.As to you saying that the Government has an Agriculture abandonment policy is a foolish and reckless disregard for the facts resulting in the demise of our Agriculture Industry.If the Government had an Agriculture abandonment Policy why is it The Government just recently gave $400,000 to DAPEX at zero percent interest so that they can purchase produce from farmers.Why would the Government make a commitment to purchase a vessel to help export produce, you tell me is this a a an abandonment Agriculture policy the Government is implementing.
It has always intrigue me how partisan political beliefs can rob people of their thinking.I do not know how old you are,but when you make the statement that “Our country has never experience such level lies, deception and corruption”tells
Why is it you translate what you read into some thing you do not understand,regarding my past comments on Agriculture.The statement which you attributed to me regarding Agriculture is somewhat a fabrication on your part since I have never made such statement nor do I adhere to such a belief.
You have made such a nonsensical statement claiming that the I have defended the DLP Government Agriculture abandonment policy.My support and praise for the Government in developing our Tourism Industry is not in any way conveying an anti Agriculture stance.As to you saying that the Government has an Agriculture abandonment policy is a foolish and reckless disregard for the facts resulting in the demise of our Agriculture Industry.If the Government had an Agriculture abandonment Policy why is it The Government just recently gave $400,000 to DAPEX at zero percent interest so that they can purchase produce from farmers.Why would the Government make a commitment to purchase a vessel to help export produce, you tell me is this an abandonment Agriculture policy the Government is implementing.
It has always intrigue me how partisan political beliefs can rob people of their thinking.I do not know how old you are,but when you make the statement that “Our country has never experience such level lies, deception and corruption”tells me how little you know about your country past.