Contributed By D Gordon
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What is Government's Response to Food Security for Overall health, in the long term?
Jamaica is now in a Food Crisis for the majority of people to feed themselves properly and for them to cut back on pharmaceutics
The solution should now be, for the policy government to establish and encourage communities Greenhouse Micro Farms through the various Communities Organizations, so that farm products can be made available at discount prices and that will also help to enhance Community Tourism.
In those communities where it is possible on Government land
Government should now be looking at a policy to remove tax from Healthy Eating Food Products, it is counterproductive to Continue Taxing Healthy Eating Products.
This initiative should form part of Government Sustainable Development Goals Policies.
Without Vision, The People Perish.
Regards,
D. Gordon, Passage fort CDC President
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5 comments:
It's not a food crisis...it's vendors being damn greedy and dishonest. It happened in Ivan and we all survived and it's happening in Beryl. This too shall pass. Jamaicans love their food and we can now start planting in pots, bags and any old items that can hold soil and use up our food scraps to make compost and save seeds and plant until the planting season recover. We are fighters and MUST survive.
That is indeed the case. Often times the farmers sell their produce at a low price and the vendors add their three hundred and more percentage markup. The sector is vastly unregulated.
The fact is, there are no produce to sell. Better put, we are in a "healty food" crisis.. Tomaties, onions etc which are imported are available but unaffordable ...but there is an abundance of rice, chicke back, tin foods erc.
The entire agricultural sector was not wiped out by Beryl, as far as I know. The Bread Basket, Clarendon and Manchester were most affected. What happen to the other parishes? Don't they farm too?
I believe the issue is the sector is not organized. Where is RADA? I am yet to hear of a report re: the extent of the damage. Now, are farmers passing down their losses to the consumers? It appears so and to make it worse, vendors are still adding their high would-be markups.
There's no food crisis in jamaica, higglers are just thief, food are in abundance in the markets right now , nothing is scared but still everything basically is from $300 per pound and up wards , on seller told me she not dropping her price for anyone mek wi man give wi enough money to come market, if her stuff doesn't sell off she can dump the rest because she made her profit and pay who fi pay already.
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