When was guinea grass introduced to jamaica

I say much maligned because he seems to have been considerably less brutal than other naval captains of his day, a fact supported by the number of his crew who in opted to go with Bligh rather than join the mutineers.

Bligh attempted a landing on the small island of Tofua where one crewman was stoned to death by the islanders. Then by a feat of incredible seamanship and with only a quadrant, a pocket watch and a memory of charts he had seen, Bligh navigated the 23 foot open boat across 3, miles of the Pacific to Timor and did not lose a single man.

It took them forty-seven days and they had been given only enough food for a week. Four years later following a second attempt Bligh finally delivered another cargo of breadfruit plants to the Bath Botanical Gardens in Jamaica, where it became established as a staple food.

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US Fish and Wildlife Service, 30 pp.. Online Database. There are some shorter cultivars of this grass. When using Guinea grass as a grazing grass, wait until the first dry season to allow animals to feed on the grass. Danthonia domingensis is a grass native to many parts of the Caribbean. This grass clumps tightly and can sometimes create tall clumps of grasses growing on roots that are above ground. Sometimes usable as a fodder grass, Danthonia domingensis can become a fire hazard during droughts or dry seasons as the blades and root structures die and dry out.

However, the grass is one of the first to repopulate burned out grasslands. This was time consuming and laborious. After a number of crop failures in the s, the Ebanks discovered that if they used cut guinea grass Panicum maximum to cover the soil before planting, there was less evaporation from the soil, drastically reducing the water required. The laborious process of applying water to each plant with a watering can was still being practised until the Jamaican government introduced gravity drip irrigation across the country in This allowed for cultivation of larger areas, but still required the purchase of water, to supplement harvested rainfall.

The solution to the high water cost was the construction of a water harvesting and storage system in And help to meet the initial costs is available to farmers through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund on the submission of a business plan.

The Ebank's system consisted of a m 3 concrete water tank which was filled from the house roof and a m 2 concrete catchment area.