Dear Editor
I say to all Jamaicans, hear the agriculture minister's call (Mr Christopher Tufton): Get back to the soil and grow some foodstuff!
In Canada, we plant our backyards as if we are crazy for the four months of warmth that we receive.

To see the amount of foodstuffs we produce in that short time would make you wonder. We the citizens purchase fresh soil and fertiliser every year and do not depend on the government for help. There are persons who live in apartments, who naturally would not have backyards to plant and as such the government would give them a small plot of land to cultivate for themselves. These people would plant any crop they wish, be honest neighbours and never rob each other.

Our crops for summer are lettuce, peas, cabbage, corn, tomato, pepper, escallion, potato, carrot, and many more small vegetables that can be ready in six to 12 weeks. Some of our produce will serve us into January of the following year, as we keep them in our fridges. Jamaicans, please get back to the earth and do some more farming. My parents usually did a lot of this, and hence spent less.

People who are lazy never get anywhere in life.

Jamaicans, it's time to stop being lazy and reluctant, get off your rumps, and do something for yourself. I know many of you think that the government should feed you while you sit on your buttocks every moment of the day.

Do all that you can for your country, your families and future and do not wait on the country to do it for you.

H Winston Anderson
Toronto, Canada
hwanderson@sympatico.ca

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