Comments on: Local Farmers ‘Dismayed’ About Govt’s Plans

By: Vertical Farm

Vertical Farm — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:32:29 +0000

There is no need to be using LED lights in vertical farming.
setting up the roof on top of the hotels for growing veggies, using netting or glass instead of walls that block the lights depending on location, can use the sun for growing most veggies.
You really should be using Singapore as role model for food production, and actively cooperate with them, Many things in common.

By: Double S

Double S — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:21:15 +0000

Do you even understand their complaints? Or are you a simple minded PLP sycophant that believes they can do no wrong?

No need to answer. Rhetorical question.

By: Observer

Observer — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:19:04 +0000

Wake up guys. It must be that someone in the loop is earmarked for a windfall from tax-payers’ money. More than likely someone who has no farming experience but is in the right circle.

Could use the gaming system to bet on who the lucky Vertical Farming Mogul is going to be.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:01:22 +0000

are you implying those who didnt go to Warwick Academy are to stupid

By: Sandgrownan

Sandgrownan — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:24:18 +0000

From the moment Bermuda elected the great educator, the PLP have shown themselves to be racist, homophobic, unavoidable table, incompetent, and fundamentally witless.

They have no idea, no plan, no clue. They could not run a piss up in a brewery. They are failures, and Bermuda’s downward spiral is on them and very muppet that bought into the racial boogey man bullshit they peddle on a constant basis.

20+ years. There’s no one left the blame.

By: Kim Smith

Kim Smith — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:14:20 +0000

‘He said the vertical farm project was to ‘facilitate food security, lower food costs, develop farm crops and create jobs in a new, evolved area of the agricultural industry.’

So, is the Government plan for achieving those very important goals listed in the quote or for producing leafy greens?

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:57:58 +0000

What proceeds from gaming? What bank will accept those proceeds?

By: Kitchen sink

Kitchen sink — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:30:06 +0000

Watch this hand while the other works you like a puppet!!
Blanks at the helm!!

By: Proven

Proven — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:08:35 +0000

They have unlimited money to lose. They are also the shareholders. Lay down everybody! 30-6.

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:51:41 +0000

My guess is that if it was feasible and a money maker they would have been doing it themselves a long time ago.

At least one farmer has been growing tomatoes and cucumbers in large plastic covered greenhouses for a long time but has never progressed to vertical farming.
Wonder why ?

By: charter

charter — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:29:06 +0000

the gov wants to revitalise the economy by putting the farmers out of business and operating a large vertical farm at a loss?
maybe so they can get a cut?
or develop the farm land?
otherwise this just seems numbnuts

By: Observer

Observer — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:22:10 +0000

What the farmers are concerned about I’m sure is the fact that initial subsidies have been offered to the developer, like rent, electricity, building materials, taxes and the like, which might just might help the project get off the ground, but won’t sustain any long term viability. The numbers from a standalone entity cannot compete with the local farmers and or indeed from any imports currently in place. Look under the hood Bermuda, you’ll see a few missing parts.

By: Guy Carri

Guy Carri — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:11:39 +0000

Leafy greens grown in vertical farming are NOT the greens the farmers focus on. A little bit of overlap in the cooler months. Overall there’s a limited amount that you can successfully grow vertically and there’s only one farmer looking to grow it year-round. Bda is too hot and the electricity to cool the crop (swamp fans or a/c) is going to cost quite a few heads of lettuce!

I’ve done my research long before the gov showed up to the party.

Private money hasn’t invested for a reason.

By: Guy Carri

Guy Carri — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:07:26 +0000

Forget if it will or won’t work. How will this lead us to economic recovery? How is this a new pillar? If traditional farming isn’t a pillar, why is this? You think an overpriced $3.5M structure is enough to spend us out of this mess? You think it’s going to employ THAT many people?! You think extra lettuce is food security?!!!!!

Evidence of it not working:
Bermy Fresh does micro greens. Why do you think they don’t do leafy greens? Why do you think they’ve expanding on other products and not micro-greens?

By: The Night Watch

The Night Watch — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:01:46 +0000

You really think any govt would be on the forefront of innovation when it comes to anything?

By: watcing

watcing — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:48:48 +0000

are the farmers and fishermen more concerned over these plans eating into their profits, or do they legitimately feel they are bad ideas?

By: And that’s what will happen with gaming

And that’s what will happen with gaming — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:08:54 +0000

All proceeds from gaming will leave our island. We should have used them bies from Bermuda so it stayed in Bermuda! PLP at work again!

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:49:52 +0000

How are the experts sure it won’t work? Really?

By: Question

Question — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:26:54 +0000

I thought it was satellites and deepsea farming.
Or is it satellites and bitcoin mining?
Or satellites and marijuana?
Or satellites and gambling?
Never quite clear is it. They have endless ‘ideas’ that always cost us a lot of money but go nowhere.

By: sirjohnsyacoola

sirjohnsyacoola — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:12:15 +0000

between this and the fish thingy in st davids that will allow the Chinese to clean out our crop, this govt are just geniuses.
trying to find the corner in a round room.

By: Duane P. Santucci

Duane P. Santucci — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:54:47 +0000

This administration under David Burt as Premier of Bermuda is not making decisions in the best interest of the wider community and it’s getting very concerning. They don’t have a real plan for economic growth or recovery, neither do they have a sustainable plan for local businesses.

By: Ohh

Ohh — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:49:31 +0000

PLP always intended on growing ganja inside as another F&F project

By: saud

saud — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:22:55 +0000

LOL…. Bermuda doesn’t have an economy, you have an invoice that need to be paid to a foreign entity…for those of you who didn’t go to Warwick Academy, that means the money is leaving Bermuda, never to return.

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:10:08 +0000

“What are the other two pillars of the economic recovery plan?”

Tourism and International Business. Same as for most of the last 50 years or so

By: Me

Me — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:49:17 +0000

When are the weed farms happening?

By: smh

smh — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:47:58 +0000

How are these farmers so sure it wont work? Have they seen a business plan or are they just upset because they have failed to innovate and be as efficient as possible over the years

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:46:24 +0000

“The BFA asserted that they were not fully consulted before the Government announced that funds have been earmarked “to support the development of a vertical farm project,” and said they are “dismayed to see Government’s insistence on moving forward.””

Face facts. The PLP Government is intent on trying to spend its way out of this current financial crises with money we do not have.

By: sandgrownan

sandgrownan — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:43:31 +0000

SO, where does this leave the PLP? What are the other two pillars of the economic recovery plan??