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Guyana Chronicle New York Edition Week-ending January 13, 2017
SAYING YES
TO
Dr. Basil Springer's
CHANGE
"And Jesus said unto them. Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain: Remove hence to yonder place and it shall be removed and nothing shall be impossible unto you." — Matthew 17:20
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"Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."
— Matthew 7:7
"Our great weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way of success is to try just one more time." There are many A Uth three of the above references are relevant to today's theme agricultural opportunij/m and I hope that at least one of them wiU Impact someone who ties which can utilize in turn draw it to the attention of our decision makers. the approximately Speaking in parliament recently, the of these resources, albeit with slave 30,000 acres of land in Barbados Minister of Finance was quoted labour, that resulted in the establishment Barbados in response in the press, in the context of the contin- of the sugar industry in the mid 17th cen- to the potentially very ued subsidization of the Barbados sugar tury. Now that sugar, in its original con- profitable global marindustry, as saying; "I am not an agricul- text, is a "sunset" industry, Barbados ket pull for tropically tural expert and I am certainly not a sugar should be looking for "sunrise" agricul- produced fresh and expert but I know that if we take the ex- tural industries to utilize the vacated processed products. ample of what other countries have gone arable lands most of which are now lying First of all we must through and the environmental, ecologi- fallow and in bush. believe that developing NOTHING BIATS BUSINESS SUCCESS cal, economic, social and other challenges As an example as to what is possible, a modern agricultural that have emerged from a disorderly exit a forward thinking farmer, after trying his industry can contribute from sugar, we know that Barbados, being hand at many agricultural exploits, has to growth in Barbados. Next, if the Minthe type of economy that it is, can ill-af- taken advantage of the opportunity to put ister of Finance is not an agricultural exford that type of luxury, if ever it could be less than a thousand acres of this idle land pert and not a sugar expert then "ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will described as a luxury". back into production with a vertically infind; knock, and the door will be opened The problem to be solved is not the tegrated sweet potato project where the for you." Thirdly, the most certain way of exit from sugar, it is the effective use of farmer cultivates land, grows the crop and success is to "try just one more time". our arable land to develop an agricultural processes it into sweet potato fries. This Let us follow the three-pronged stratindustry, including sugar as appropriate. displaces imports of white potato and egy of Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. in her book The major assets in Barbados in- sweet potato fries and creates an export "Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom clude the climate, arable land and people. opportunity. The result is a net foreign ex- for Your Journey" co-authored with her History reveals that it was the exploitation change gain. husband, Gordon Dveirin, where they ad-
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