Today, Hunter said, would-be farmers need credit and technical assistance to clear fields and resume planting. But he complains that the only action the government is taking on Corn Island in regard to agriculture is a study of an insect that carries disease from wild cotton to commercial fields. But the cotton is grown on the Pacific, not here. Hunter had a vision of an island of both farmers and fishermen, where financing would be available for people who wanted to work and produce, and where the natural resources on which they depended would be conserved for future generations. It's an ambitious vision, but the people of Corn Island will be working together with their local government to make it happen.
Local fishermen call for more regulations.
The problem of financing. Tale of two islands.