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With increasing openness in the global economy, national self-sufficiency may not be a viable development
strategy, as certain food products may be cheaper to import than to produce domestically. However, considering
agriculture’s role as a means of livelihood for millions of poor people, enhancing its competitiveness by cutting
average costs of production is critical for the survival of many smallholder farmers.
Translating: With the world knocking at your door, it is cheaper to buy import than local produce. But pity the poor
farmers, millions of them. Some live next door to you. What governments can do is decrease the price of farming
and increase the prize. Farming would then become a good fight against pests, diseases, the vagaries of nature,
competition. Insight: Government can do more; they can subsidize the farmers like the United States do the
American farmers. For their own good.
Now then, are my translations perfect? Of course not. But they’re practical. So, we’ve been playing a
game. Now you ask me: What’s the meaning of all this!? Simple. We need bureaucrats like them. Bureaucrats
need infocrats like us.
To Catch An Insight