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Road leading to cocoa fields in Mora Trace Cumana, Toco |
Toco is an active farming and fishing village located in the North Eastern coast of Trinidad. Over the past three decades, farmers within this region has been plagued with the constraint of poor road networks and dilapidated bridges. This major challenge has drastically affected farmers accessing their farm lands and estates as road networks are often impassable, Annually thousands of acres of banana, cocoa, and other crops are lost as farmers' crops cannot be transported out of inaccessible estates, thus resulting in lost of revenue.
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This is one of the bridges farmers have to cross in Anglais road |
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Another Bridge in Anglais Road (does this look safe to you?) |
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Monsegue road, some farmers still pass here to go to their land |
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Basin Galape road, this is a common sight along these roads |
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Basin Galape road (would you drive here?) |
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Farmer transports produce out of his banana estate where vehicles can not access
the following 2 pictures is an indication of the rest of his journey |
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Imagine walking this! |
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For Four (4) miles |