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Central farmer robbed

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SHASTRI BOODAN
1784 days ago
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The RTPA spokesman told Guardian Media he discovered the losses when he arrived at the area on Thursday morning.

The RTPA spokesman told Guardian Media he discovered the losses when he arrived at the area on Thursday morning.

SHASTRI BOODAN

Food crop farmer, Ramdeo Boon­doo, is com­plain­ing that the Prae­di­al Lar­ce­ny Squad of the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture is not as ef­fec­tive as it should be in as­sist­ing farm­ers in this coun­try.

Boon­doo, who is al­so the head of the Root and Tu­ber Pro­duc­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (RT­PA), said thieves stole around $2,000 worth of cas­sa­va from a plot of land at Chase Vil­lage on Wednes­day night.

The RT­PA spokesman told Guardian Me­dia that when he ar­rived at the area on Thurs­day morn­ing, he was greet­ed with the sight of a num­ber of up­root­ed cas­sa­va plants.

The cassava field the crop thieves dug up

The cassava field the crop thieves dug up

SHASTRI BOODAN

He said his call to the Prae­di­al Lar­ce­ny Squad proved fu­tile. He was told that the Squad has one ve­hi­cle, and it was be­ing used in south Trinidad.

The food crop farmer said he was dis­heart­ened at the news, since the plot the crop thieves plun­dered con­tained a num­ber of new va­ri­eties he had been grow­ing in con­junc­tion with the UWI.

Ramdeo Boon­doo said prae­di­al lar­ce­ny is a ma­jor de­ter­rent to young peo­ple de­sirous of get­ting in­to the agri­cul­ture sec­tor, and the au­thor­i­ties at the Agri­cul­ture Min­istry need to take the is­sue se­ri­ous­ly.


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