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Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture
"Oz" wrote in message ... Jim Webster writes it certainly looks grim. The sensible thing to do in that sort of area is for them to diversify out of food production, That's what they are trying. They have borrowed to buy beads to make necklaces. The whole thing sounds like a classical pyramid sell and if it is they will have big debts, a pile of unsaleable necklaces, and borrowings to boot. get jobs where their labour will undercut European wage rates and buy food in. Unskilled, uneducated and isolated. Hmmm.... Even a part time job that paid enough to let them get a proper diet would help break the downward spiral. There are no jobs. There is little infrastructure. It's (I think) the third poorest country in the world. yet there is a plant making JD tractor parts (I know because we had a bit marked tajikistan. I assumed that it was from a retooled soviet era tank factory.) But let us look at it rationally. 1) there isn't a lot of point of them trying to do anything agricultural because even if they get the land right and yields up they are still just subsistance peasants producing commodity product. I cannot imagine there being a market for Tajik grain beer or melons. 2) I would suspect that educational level/literacy is pretty good so they would happily train up to work in pretty well any industry. At the moment they would doubtless undercut pretty well most other labour pools. 3) With money coming in they have the money behind them to start improving their land, some will buy or rent more, some will give up the land altogether because they make enough from their job. 4) It needs some investment at the start of the process and for the first generation it can be tough, but things improve and you end up with a prosperous urban society with good medical care and adequate food for everyone. It's called the industrial revolution and worked for us. Jim Webster |
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