Agriculture with a flourish

Jun 25, 2008 Features / Columnists

The Parrot has been pondering, with some level of ecstatic expectancy, a recent comment made by the Minister of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to as the MBA, on his ministry’s “Grow More” campaign.

This campaign, when examined “pound for pound,” taking into consideration the area covered and size of population in comparison to the election campaign in the United States, hereinafter referred to as “Bush Country”, seems more intense and intimate; ah shad up. Not what you are thinking.

Montgomery’s Buoyancy on Agriculture (MBA) has not only led to an unprecedented awareness of the campaign, but to less grass.

Yes, the man (MBA) is almost single-handedly making “Bush” disappear! At the rate he, the MBA, is going, “Bush” may be a thing of the past long before the official date in January 2009; American constitutional time, that is.

The man, (MBA), don’t want to see “Bush” like Mc Cain and DEM-o-crats. I am sure that, just like the millions across the world, including Guyana (minus the millions), who followed the primaries in the US, the innovative Mechanisms to Boost Agriculture (MBA) here are also attracting attention.

Al Gore sure could have used the MBA’s skills in 2000, which would have meant no “Bush” since then. But, then again, it that was so, the thunder of the MBA in Making Bush Absent (MBA), would have been stolen.

Anyway, back to the MBA’s Making of Bullish Arguments (MBA) on agriculture. He alluded to young people who all seem entrenched in ensuring that their fingers are kept clean so as to manoeuvre over the key pads of the latest technological gadgets. Well, he said up to “…clean”. I stuck in the rest.

The reality, as eloquently expounded by the More Bullish Arguer (MBA) in relation to agriculture is that the majority of young people seem not to find it “hip”, and to use the MBA’s word, “sexy”.

According to him, the MBA, that is, they seem not to want to have ‘dirt” on their fingers, which would explain the abandonment of some school demonstration plots.

In the Parrot’s days at school, and I am sure the MBA’s as well, we had to be “sweating” it out in the plots. The “country boys” used to “show off” on and “show up” the “town boys”. Weeding, forking, shovelling, planting, watering and bird chasing were the “actions” then.

Seldom did we reap. Boy, how has time changed! Cell phoning, I-poding, MP3, 4, 5…ing, Hi5-ing, My Space-ing, basketball-ing, WWF wrestling and, to some extent, condomising, seem the “actions” of today.

This is where the MBA must be commended and supported for his MBA-ness, Macho Boldness on Agriculture in relation to young people. After all, he has the seeds to make it happen. Ah shad up again. Not what you are thinking now.

The Parrot would like to suggest that, in his quest to “sex up” agriculture to attract the younger ones, the MBA should consider the development of a VPRS –”Virtual Planting & Reaping” software and the possibility of adding “Agriculture Girls” to his can and van…oops, caravan. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

We have “Blue Power Girls”, “DGcell Girls”, “Carib Girls”, “Polar Ice Girls” and the “Tourism Many Girls”. So the MBA can now have his own “Okra Girls”, “Calaloo Girls, “Bora Girls”, “Boer Goat Girls” and so many others. It works!

Just ask the companies. Advertise the bids for the costume design now. Don’t wait. Many Bannas Anxious (MBA)! Squawk! Squawk!