x Inhospitable weather conditions and a scarcity of inputs that are important to the ‘good health’ of the agriculture sector are largely responsible for the doleful mood that appears to have swept over some farmers who live and work in Essequibo. Many of them appear to be too ‘intimate’ with the situation to want to engage in any prolonged discourse on a matter which, these days, they must sleep and wake with.
One Pomeroon farmer, Wendel Daniels, with whom the Stabroek Business ‘caught’ up at Anna Regina recently, agreed to speak, seeming wearied by a lack of opportunity to ‘exhale.’ On the position of those farmers who simply avoid the media is, perhaps, understandable. In many instances their experiences have been debilitating.
It was different with Wendel. He spoke, seemingly, because he found the occasion to be an opportunity to ‘exhale,’ to verbalize the travails his travails in a sector which, in some instances, is currently being brutalized by the heat.