A blueprint to keep Wales going

Feb 17, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
We are happy to offer the following suggestions for salvaging the unsatisfactory performance of Wales Estate and making it profitable, sustaining its present workforce and creating more job opportunities in the future, etc:
1. Rescind the closure of the estate and focus sugar production to satisfy current local and international markets.
2. Embark on crop diversification on the low yielding lands.
3. Commence inter-cropping on current moderate to high yielding lands. The following table gives some suggestions as regards intercropping and the products that can be produced:

Other Crops

Value Added Products

Miscellaneous

Fruits

Citrus Fruits

Pineapple

Pear

Mangoes

Bananas

Cashew

Cherries

Fruit Juices

Fruit Sugar

Fruit Concentrates

Fruit in Syrup

Fruit Vinegar

Pickled Fruits

Jams

Jellies

Fruit Wines

Alcohol

Fruit Vinegar

Snacks

Biogas

Silage

Compost

Livestock Feeds

Organic Herbicides

Vegetables & Ground Provisions

Cassava

Corn

Soyabean

Minica

Pigeon Peas

Coconuts

Cocoa

Yam

Sweet Potatoes

Eddoes

Plantain

Vine Crops

Farine

Tapioca

Casreep

Soya Chunks

Soya Milk

Coconut Milk

Coconut Flour

Coconut Water

Coconut Toddy

Chocolate

Corn Oil

Coconut Oil

Pickled Vegetables

Snack Foods

Biogas

Silage

Compost

Livestock Feeds

Coconut Fibre Mats

Activated Charcoal

Coconut Fibre Mattresses

Herbs

Turmeric

Ginger

Arrowroot

Neem

Sijan

Pepper

Aloes

Thyme

Married Man Pork

Tulsi

Teazam

Daisy

Tablets

Capsules

Tinctures

Liniments

Herbal Insecticides

Suppositories

Herbal Drinks/Wines

Green Seasonings

Herbal Powders

Herbal Essential

Herbal Carrier Oils

Deodorants

Shampoos

Soaps

Beauty Products

Biogas

Compost

Herbal Weedicides

Livestock

Sheep

Goats

Cows

Pigs

Poultry

Canned Meat

Cheese

Yogurt

Pickled Meat

Eggs

Milk

Bacon

Biogas

Compost

Acquaculture

Tilapia

Hassar

Crabs

Prawns

Canned Products

Dried Fish/Shrimps

Canned Pickled Products

Livestock Feed

4. Marketing
· Continue Conventional Traditional Marketing
· Embark on Relationship Marketing- Focus on the following markets:
a.Internal- employees
b.Supplier
c.Influence
d.Referral
e.Recruitment – exhibitions, fairs, etc.
·Build relational, functional and strategic partnerships with stakeholders, businesses, etc
5.Pursue other income generating initiatives: farm tourism, sport fishing, rental of properties, etc
6. Cut costs: providing car loans, allowances, etc for Executives, Managers, etc
7. Human Resources Management. Do the following:
a. Appoint Executive Directors for key areas of operation
b. Audit the use of management tools annually to determine efficiency and effectiveness- organization structure, job descriptions, performance appraisals
c. Implement succession planning, training, implementation and audit on an annual basis.
d. Rigorously train and retrain existing staff to improve their competencies especially where new ventures are concerned.
e. Promote staff on basis of competence and integrity at all times.
f.Employ retired people at lower levels (as advisors, trainers, etc) and not in substantive positions, thereby giving younger staff opportunities to grow and develop.
8. Establish partnerships with national and international companies that manufacture fruit concentrates, confectionery, jams, jellies, chocolates, etc which utilize sugar as an important ingredient. Or alternatively, adapt and use the present machinery and human resources to establish new ventures.
As the situation stands with Wales and other estates, it is requisite that when decisions are to be made regarding any closure Ministers and other key personnel involved must use their emotional intelligence at all times. We must not play political games with the lives of innocent people who are not to be blamed for the current state of the estate, observing that the past management, union and political leaders were happy presiding over the mess that currently obtains. As free people, we will not contribute to anything without perceiving the gain of property and a future in it. The closure of Wales is inimical to achieving the good life and social cohesion which demand that we show a willingness to belong and contribute to the betterment of our wounded country.
Doodnauth Singh

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