A recent document emanating from the Ministry of Agriculture titled ‘The Agriculture Sector – Achievements for 2022,’ alludes to some of the sectorial assignments with which the Ministry was associated in 2022. In many, perhaps even most instances, the document did no more than allude to undertakings in which it was involved, either on its own or as part of domestic or regional partnerships. In those instances it simply stated that one or another activity had occurred, providing few or simply no details about the substantive progress that had been recorded in pursuit of the respective goals. One wonders, therefore, whether the Ministry’s application of the phrase “Achievements for 2022” was not, in fact, a misapplication at least in some instances. If no one can blame the Ministry of Agriculture for blowing its trumpet in the matter of what it perceives to be the weightiness of its 2022 timetable, it must be mindful that its eagerness to do so does not extend into causing its pronouncements to be seen as trumpeting much louder than merited.
