We can bet on research to create wealth

Since independence, it has been hard for farmers to make wealth. Consequently, they are rarely motivated to invest more skill, time and money into their farms. I suggest that we help them to make green money from their farms so that they don’t spend a lifetime of farming only to enter into their sunset years broke and disillusioned.

The first help that we should give farmers is access to research information. They often use the wrong seed in the wrong soil and tend the resulting crop with the wrong fertiliser not to mention storage issues. The net result of such uninformed farming is increasingly poor yields that leave them impoverished and the country hungry.