From Thomas Groves
Reading your article about arable farming in the desert
(27 October, p 44)
felt like déjà vu.
With all due respect to the farmers, this does look amazingly like good old
British standard mixed farming—modified to suit the environment, of
course. What a pity that all those development “experts” back in the sixties
didn’t export this model rather than the “new and improved” agribusiness
nonsense they peddled.
It worked for us and it can work for Africa. And maybe when we come to our
senses some African farmers can come over here and remind us how to farm
intelligently.
Ashford, Kent
