Organised communities can stop farm thieves

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as praedial larceny.
Farmers have to deal with droughts, floods, extreme price fluctuations, and the high cost of inputs.
But talk to any producer of food crops and livestock, big or small, anywhere in Jamaica; he or she will testify that the biggest problem facing farmers is theft.