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Grow More Food – Oscar E V Fernando Our proud boast of being the Granary of the East is a far cry today but we have hope as we still have the same fertile land that can be tilled-this time after having consumed the last dregs of humiliation in having been reduced to the begging bowl from the Grand Granary-and also as we have the same mold of people who can be made to put their hands to the plough with proper guidance on techniques, modern equipment and a youth friendly rural society-this time guided private entrepreneurs and not by our chair-warming and lethargic ‘public servants’ this can be achieved with enticing invitations to local and foreign investors on the basis of Public Private Partnerships-for tilling of the land. On accepting aid from capitalist/communist countries It is apt to touch on this much hackneyed subject which is common knowledge to the ...