From Long Creek to Loo Creek

Organic farmer has model farm with the best crops in the village

By Michel Outridge

ing a fully cultivated farm with his son, Ajay, meant Lakhan Budhan had to start from scratch. Despite challenges, he was able to achieve much at his new farm.

Budhan, better known as “Jah Man,” during a guided tour of his new farm told the

Pepperpot Magazine that he achieved a lot during that time but can do even more, once he is equipped with the lease for the farmlands.

He explained that he will embark on drilling a well for water for his cultivation and he needs an excavator for much-needed drainage and irrigation works on the land.

Budhan’s farm is the last on that side of Loo Creek, and it is about six miles off the main highway and he is also the lone occupant on the land there too.

The farmer stated that a year ago, he had a vision and left his well-cultivated farm to his young son, Ajay. He then cleared the land at Loo Creek, where he began cultivating cash and permanent crops. Due to limited land space among his crops.

Budhan employs 14 persons from the village and its environs and soon, he plans to construct a suitable house for the workers who will live

He related that he is motivated because of his love for farming, and to be surrounded by trees and plants makes him very happy and he is all about ensuring adequate local for extended farming, Budhan left Long Creek to start a farm of his own.

He has been into farming for the past 20 years, has cleared 100 acres of land for farming, and is awaiting the lease for the plot to acquire a loan to get equipment and materials needed to upkeep his farm.

Budhan reported that among his crops, he plants Carolina reaper peppers, one of the hottest in the country. The pepper was grafted from seven varieties of hot peppers and is a “hot” seller.

He cultivates pear, papaya, tanya, cassava, citrus, eddoes, plantains, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and ginger, on the farm. food security.

The farmer told the Pepperpot Magazine that he currently has 30 acres of well-cultivated crops and was able to achieve that in one year, from scratch.

Budhan added that he expended more than G$15M to start his farm, most of which went towards clearing and preparing the land.

“Agriculture is part of me, it is ingrained in my being, etched deep within and it is not something that happened overnight. I came from humble beginnings and I had the desire to farm and I persuaded [sic] that vision and it happened,” he said. Budhan is very benevo-