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Sep 24, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
My friend who now resides in London, UK sent me pictures of vegetables he cultivates in his “ allotment” which is a portion of land about forty feet by twenty feet somewhere in the City itself, and straight away, I remembered making call in the mid 1980’s for abandoned canefields just over the trench at South Ruimveldt Gardens to be so used for residents of Georgetown. This view was expressed on Consumers Corner. What has become of that useful organization, Editor, kindly investigate.
The National Farmers Organization published a study in 1984 which suggested that similar lands should be provided for the eighty cattle owners in the City to keep their milk cows on these lands. Nothing came out of that proposal. I wonder what has happened to these cows. I do not see them roaming the streets of Georgetown.
If a Guyanese can go to London and cultivate food on an allotment, then I feel that we can promote the same here, just on the south Georgetown lands. Guyana has the lands, the persons who can fend for themselves; our people do not lack ambition. Look at our leaders; they are a determined self-seeking lot, full of self-worth, but only for themselves. If we can harness that selfishness to productivity, we will be led out of the sluggishness that seems to confine us. We, the people have ideas that we project in many ways. How does the cocaine pass the airport and elsewhere? We need to be given the chance to prove our worth. Give us a break and let us breathe.
About four weeks ago, I was driving through Halley Street, Wortmanville, where about five youngsters were placing broken concrete in craters/holes in the road. Yes they had a cartoon box for offerings from motorists. I contributed and told they were doing a good think. Upon reflection and with knowledge of what my friend is doing in London, I am now requesting all concerned to consider the enterprising young men. Let us find them, offer them an allotment in the south G/T areas, give them the assistance they need and let us see where this experiment will go. Up to now no effort is being made to halt the slide to non development we have been experiencing for decades.
I remember at a big meeting at Sophia in the time of PNC governance a call was made to allow a ribbon of lands close to housing areas in the sugar belt country-wide where citizens would cultivate crops, some to raise cattle for milk purposes only. At that meeting two big ones, one from the leadership of the now faltering and bankrupt Guysuco, and the other one who promised Mr. Hoyte to provide 800,000 gallons of milk per year, asking me if the lands were my father’s property. I countered that neither was it their fathers’ Look what we have inherited; we get our milk from a can, and sugar is on its behind.
Hafiz Rahaman,
National Farmers’ Organization
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