An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
The above narrative is one that needs to be questioned and checked thoroughly to ascertain its validity. The plan and expectation by the international development organization will only come to fruition if several questions are answered.
Firstly, it is quite too much an assumption to believe that the the "impoverished" nation of Tagus will be able to afford the seeds of the new breed of millet even with the subsidy. The international development organization needs to answer the questions on the cost, if the farmers in Tagus will be able to afford it after subsidy considering their average income. If the cost is way above their income, even with the subsidy they might not be able to afford it thereby hampering the plan. A major solution might be Government setting the subsidy to the bearable point for the farmers or giving them grants.
It is also important to get a feedback on what tests have been done to the soil in Tagus to ascertain that it will grow the new millet variety appropriately. That it is highly rich in Vitamin A doesn't make it applicable to every soil. If this test is done and it comes back positive, it will make the plan achievable.
Another important point that the international development organization need to give attention to is, are there other highly rich vitamin A crops and are relatively cheaper? Much attention might have been given to millet because it is a staple food, the cost and question on viability of the new breed might open the farmers to these other options.
Conclusively, answers should be gotten on questions like, how organized and responsible is the Government of Tagus? Are they even aware of the Vitamin A deficiency? And do they have a system that allows for the smooth introduction of these new breed of millet. Answers to these questions will give an edge to whether or not the plan will work in that Land.
- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers 50
- An international development organization in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A While seeds for this new type of millet cost more farmers will be paid