King urges Tongans to cultivate their fertile lands
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 18:47
Tonga has abundant food but it does not balance with our efforts to be active, and much fertile land was neglected, HM King Tupou VI said in opening Tongatapu's two-day Royal Agricultural Show 2012 at the Manamo'ui grounds in 'Atele, this afternoon Friday October 19. He urged Tongans to increase the acreage of land farmed from around 12 percent to make 50 percent of the land productive.
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Many countries in the world
Many countries in the world pay great impact agriculture, processing of agricultural products.
Every piece of land it is to be fertile begets more. My country is the farm where they agricultural products for food. King is right, you need to engage more farmers, the ministry and government subsidies to encourage production. Greeting from Macedonia, Europa. Sasko Rocevski.