“Forest sector underutilized, says World Bank report” is the title of the story ran by Kuensel on July 25, 2019. Dr. Tashi Wangchuk’s opinion in Kuensel, titled “cutting more forest is not the most expedient choice” (Wangchuk, 2019) sums up the need for looking at our forests as an asset at par with our built [...]
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Can we question our food self-sufficiency wish? My Opinion Piece for Kuensel (July 6th 2019 Issue)
A recent editorial in Kuensel titled “A stunted agriculture sector” grabbed my attention, just because we have been trying to achieve food self-sufficiency since the establishment of the agriculture sector in the country in 1961 together with the commencement of the first five-year plan in 1961. Similarly, an opinion piece by the former Secretary of [...]
Agriculture Minister proposes a meat tax to discourage local slaughterhouses [The Bhutanese, 9th March 2019]
This is one "hell" of a confused article and I know many will not agree with this article of mine [https://thebhutanese.bt/agriculture-minister-proposes-a-meat-tax-to-discourage-local-slaughterhouses/?fbclid=IwAR1SpYIm73kG9jlXai8nchc1Ashe-OWS_1rBIaD2g1q9UItTuouYtakR5VM]. The article "cites" local slaughterhouses or rather a meat production will be levied the tax and the same source says imported meat is not hygienic. Well! when imported meat is un-hygienic; when we can't [...]
My Heart Will Pain to See my Kids Drop After Class X
On 30th August 2018, The Economist wrote “When the island of Singapore became an independent country in 1965, it had few friends and even fewer natural resources. How did it become one of the world’s great trading and financial centres? The strategy, explained Lee Kuan Yew, its first prime minister, was “to develop Singapore’s only [...]
