ho hum . . .

So I am expecting an Invitation from the President soon.

Well, go try to get in on the action nah or go rear some pigs.

What happened to the enterprising Guyanese farmers? One would have thought that with such a demand there would be an increase in farm production. It seems to me that these Guyanese have gone lazy from drugs abuse and easy money making scams/schemes. No back bone left to do any hard work.

like I said elsewhere . . . for some reason you feel compelled to post "something" in response, no matter how inane.

 

I know that you're not on the 'per post' OP payroll . . . What's your motivation?

There is definitely a policy problem in Guyana.  The same issues which gave rise to chicken shortage also affecting other live stock farmers.  The PPP cannot be defended on this one.

Specifically, this was to give you an idea to go make a living.  Pig farming is not a bad place to start.  At least the environment you might find comforting and very adaptable.

I'm quite confident that I make a way better (legal) living than ignoramuses like you and the other PPP dribblers on GNI . . .

I don't think it is a political issue at all. It's plainly a commercial issue. We have the space to develop farming, but where are the entrepreneurs applying for the development or willing to invest? In Brasil they falling over themselves to develop farming. In Guyana they falling over themselves to import meat. Only lazy business people after a quick buck do such thing.

When I tell people I am from Guyana they laugh. Dem can't believe that a successful electronics firm is owned by a Guyanese. They think we too damn lazy to get involved in hard work.

That's where it comes back to policy decisions.  Politics, Law and Economics/Commerce go hand-in-hand.

Even during the days under Burnham Guyanese were rearing chicken and pigs. People got to eat and are willing to pay for food if they can afford it.

I come from a family of farmers and was probably the last of the then younger generation to witness the investment that the family put into the business. But those that came after me were not interested in farming. The last time I looked on Google map the land we owned and used for farming is now occupied by houses and roads. My grandfather would turn in his grave if he knew how such commercial opportunities have been squandered by the new generation within my own family. No doubt the same ideology has spread to other generations of once enterprising farmers.

Better be careful tellin the banna fo go "rear" pigs.

True there Mr T.  I believe a lot have changed, not in the least the urbanization which have seen the population spread of GT, coupled with a stagnant population = depletion of rural/farm life.

 

This is where socio-economic planning comes into the picture and where the Govt missed the boat.  A Govt studies and evaluate the impact of its changing demographics and institutionalize macro and micro policies to mitigate negative effect and meet the new challenges.  To not appreciate the need and effects of policy decisions on the behavior and activities of it's people is naive.

 

Your grandfather would more likely turn in his grave if he finds his descendants are too blind to see the changes and miss the opportunities these present.  In these days of mechanization, modernization, mass communication and productivity, I'm sure none of our fore-parents would prefer we live by their standard.

 

The issue here is a lack of effective long-range planning, both regarding the movement of people and the production means to support the people in the new life-styles.

 

To be fair, LFSB's FCH program had it's merits however, he was bound up with a reluctant co-partner as Indians felt brutalized and subjugated and did not have their hearts in nation-building.  Today Indians seem more nationalistic, but coupled with an incoherent and hodge-podge policy approach flawed by corruption and incompetency, it becomes as ineffective as LFSB's was.

 

The PPP would do itself a favor to dust-off this handbook and work intelligently with the Opposition in true nation building.

Personally I believe that the politicians built their power base on racial divide and let the country go to the dogs. It's everyone for themselves, kickbacks included.

When I was small, all the black people reared pigs in the village. We kids used to go and look at them slaughtering the pigs. Nowadays black people are marginalized. They want to be ambassadors not pig farmers.

Mr T and Mr Baseman, this was only 4 years ago..... 

Robert talks a lot.  I met farmers on ECD/WCB who don't want to see him. Occasional photo ops and sound-bytes don't make a policy.

Are you saying it would have been better going to the pigs instead?

He (Robert Persaud) said the fact that Guyana does not import pork shows that the country is self-sufficient in that area, and, as such, farmers should now work towards exporting the product. (August 2008)

 

Why do we have a shortage under the watch of the Pork Pork Pork party?

when the ppp call to import pigs into guyana,NEHRU run and hide,he say no way he going back to guyana

You always joking on political and these guys take you for serious...it's cyber world anyways..lol

Ever had swine flu?

The company Seaboard has many investments in Guyana.  They are also one of the largest pork suppliers in the world. Most likely they may be supplying some of the pork or getting some of the pork. 

So is all dem lazy "black people" fault . . ., eh?

I wonder who is the secret swine importer?

Bai, I dying to find out mehself

Pork is poison and should not be consumed. 

Don't think pandit Nehru will agree.

The point is many knows that pork is not good for the body but they still devour it. Go to the bars in NY and see how indos stuff thei faces with roast pork...

Ohh yes, those bars say a lot about Guyana Indo culture, of lack there of, pork and poke aside.

You are saying that because you support the Pork Pork Pork party and you squeal like a pig.

Is the secret swine importer related to you?

You should tell your afro_party people to stop eating pork, or else they all would be extinnct.  The PPP would live forever. 

You should tell tour mattie not to drink so much bush rum, it's poison.  I don't think you should go off telling other people what's good and not good.  You need to tell that to white, chinese, etc people also.  And they don't look one way going extinct!

 

BTW, duglarization will end the PPP, and that has nothing to do with pork.

and that's because there is more pork in you than in a pig.
Is your dougla cousin the swine importer?