Building on our blessings

I REFER to “Bountiful” (The Star, May 9). No words can really describe the happiness the settlers feel for their hard work over the past five decades. We need to ponder how grateful we are to be blessed with material abundance when developed nations are cutting incentives to their citizens due to negative economic conditions hitting their countries.

The current success started with an idea of new land development initiated in 1955, but it was only after independence in 1957 that a definite policy for land development was promulgated as a basic strategy to improve the economic status of the rural sector.