Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.

Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

Farmers are on the roads because they are trying to get to their place of work, just as motorists are trying to get to their place of employment. The days of a farm family just working on their homestead acres are long gone. Some farmers must travel many miles to get to their fields.