I am not an expert in finance but the, HPIC "refund", 125 tractors and
aggressive tax collection will not make a dent if:
Our agricultural system continues to be totally dependent on rainfall.
Government continues to spend beyond whatever our income is.
Brother, do not take it offensive "IF" I will challenge some of your points as interesting to discuss. Firstly, without rain fall in plentiful, how can we survive because Jahally pacharr will not be able to employ or satisfied Gambian with neither rice nor millet cultivation. Therefore, we have no choice but depend totally on rainfall to avoid draught. The second point is that, groundnut have more value in the world market than millet. It has nothing to do with the promotional sector of the marketing but the benefits when taking into the industries for processing and out in the market place.
You are right to saying that, we need to make more effort to develop or change our system of production by cultivating more vegetables instead on depending on groundnut only, for the foreign markets. As groundnut is yet again, seasonal and cannot survive without rainfalls, but vegetables and fruits are all the year around and do not need as much rainfall and can be prevented from distruction during the rainy season. Again I am with you on your point that the government is spending beyond our financial strength and all that are big minus and have played a major part in the present difficulties in the country. The question still remains, How can we emerge from this disaster? what are the government's plans to solving this saga? etc.
Have a good day
Edi
