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Re: irrigation project




In a message dated 12/10/96 10:55:22 PM, hector@hawaii.edu (Hector
Valenzuela) wrote:

<<In reference to P. Ellis's suggestions and Tom's request for volunteers in
Nicaragua:

In my view growers there would welcome any input that can be provided in
the area of irrigation management (plenty of water sources there, in
several areas), fertilizer management, erosion management (in furrow
irrigation), crop management, pest mgmt, postharvest, as well as any
marketing ideas. Sounds like a really good opportunity. Ellis's comments
are insightful.

Hector Valenzuela
Assoc. Vegetable Extension Specialist
Univ. Hawaii at Manoa
hector@hawaii.edu
>>

In my view, as soon as we get to real situations, rather than
capital-intensive fictions, we cannot make useful recommendations about how
things might be done without visiting the site and talking to folks to see
what they have and what they can do and what they want to do.  I am sure that
these matters can be successfully addressed using mainly resources that are
locally available, thus without fostering increased dependence on
industrialized societies and their banks. (Or is it the other way round,
banks and their industrialized societies?)  I'm sure (from experience) that
on site, I could be helpful to a team of people, mostly the people who want
and will use the results.  I am even more sure that we cannot be helpful at a
distance and that we could do some harm.

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