Simply by ignoring the World Bank's decades-long advice about not subsidising fertilizers. The Bretton Woods institution according to a New York Times article had over 20 years "pushed Malawi to eliminate fertilizer subsidies entirely... its theory was that Malawi's farmers should shift to growing cash crops for exports and use the foreign exchange earnings to import food...". You don't get any crappier than this!
Similarly prices of vegetables in Mauritius could go down if government subsidised fertilizers according to Kreepalloo Sunghoon, Secretary of the Small Planters Association. Having basic market intelligence flow to these planters would also stabilise the cost and supply of vegetables to your kitchen. And improving seed quality will not hurt variety.
By the way, don't you want to know how much of the billion-rupee Food Security Fund announced in last year's budget has actually been spent? And how it has been spent?
By the way, don't you want to know how much of the billion-rupee Food Security Fund announced in last year's budget has actually been spent? And how it has been spent?
The bean-counter was busy subsidising the poor industrialists - his sponsors!
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sanjay guette sa, kan mem prix monter ou quoi, ene nouvo business ine kumanse, li apelle stealing business, extra top ek pli rapide
ReplyDeleteki economic growth.
Stealing business? Kot apran sa? Li marse tou sel sa ou bien li bizin so stimulus pakeg?
ReplyDeleteI've visited all the hyperlinks. Good job. We need mor KJ in the Cabinet more than ever...
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think if Mr Sunghoon was made to meet the MAA's Eric Mangar?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xb4mwoFJLw&feature=player_embedded
@akagugo: petet zot deza konn zot. wi, important ki dimunn zwen pu tir nu depi dan trou.
ReplyDeleteAllelujah!!! Zordi, M. Jean Arthur Pilot Lagesse,directeur- général désigné des opérations sucrières d’Harel Frères, inn réaliser ki "la pomme de terre est plus rentable que la canne"
ReplyDeleteSince then, Malawi has lost the plot, it appears...
ReplyDeleteFamine in Malawi. Mess in Indonesia. Mess in Mauritius. Should we then be surprised that some have recommended that the WB/IMF headquarters be turned into a shopping mall where falafel (a cousin of gato-pima) could be sold.
ReplyDeleteSaying no to Monsanto can be like saying no to the WB/IMF.
ReplyDeleteSo this guy is telling some things, not all very well researched, but quite pessimistic. Just a peek into something marvelous and that can be adapted to our tropical climate. Unless he's interiorised the artificial notion that we MUST use fertilisers/pesticides at all costs and, god forbid, that we must buy all Monsanto's products...
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