RE: Prices of Vegetables and Fruits Go Up 🥑 Possible Solutions
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We have few choices here in Clevia for produce, and for nearly a week all we had access to were mangoes and cucumbers. Things are getting tougher and tougher by the day. We spent a week without being able to find propane and no access to funds. We ran down to our last few dollars with nothing to eat and no way to cook.
This is no way to live, and it's even tougher when you don't have a social network of friends and family looking out for you. I think Suriname should import a whole Cambodian village, that would fix the agricultural situation within a year ;).
Even when there is produce, it seems there is little variety here, that is definitely something that needs to change because we're tired of eating the same 10 or 12 vegetables week after week.
Hahahaha that would be a great idea. A large part of the population is moving away from farming, especially after the abolition o slavery and immigrant parents wanted their kids to become lawyers or doctors. Almost no one wants to work fields anymore. My grandad also had a patch of land at plantation Laarwijk, but he sold it, because none of the kids wanted to farm and be so far away from the city. We've all settled here.
There was even a time in history when the Suriname government had to open up the borders to Haiti citizens, to work the fields.
And about the limited variety; I guess Surinamers have a limited diet 🙈 and some don't like "new" things. For example with my parents, sometimes we ate the same type of vegetables every week; became staples 😅.
But I do think, that in more rural areas there's more variety.
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