#he is sad and domesticatible

[realmikedirnt]

i didnt woobify that garbage pile he did it himself

[zvaigzdelasas]

Rayson, who has been working with dairy cows for more than two decades, said imported milk powder has put most Jamaican dairy farmers out of business.

He is left with about 45 cows and continues to sell them off, one by one, in order to provide for his family.

"I'm more than sad about it," he said.

Pouring out fresh milk because of the inability to sell it is a long-standing problem in Jamaica. In the late 1980s, Jamaica had a successful milk industry, in part because of policies that increased tariffs on imported milk powder. The tariff revenue was passed on to local dairy producers as a subsidy.

But in 1992, the World Bank required Jamaica to lift the tariff as a condition for granting a loan. Soon enough, Jamaica was flooded with imported, heavily-subsidized powdered milk.[...]

"A country that feeds itself is a country that is self sufficient," Rayson said.

Christopher Serju, agriculture writer for The Gleaner, Jamaica's leading newspaper, said the dairy industry has suffered more than any other in Jamaica because of trade liberalization.

Rayson said he is going to try to raise beef since there is no way to turn a profit in the dairy business.

2011

COMTRADE trade data for Jamaican Imports of "Dairy Products" [grouped under HS 1992] visualized using the interactive Atlas of Economic Complexity