Yet weary farmers in Mikumi village were ready to try alternatives to round-the-clock crop surveillance.
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Both states grow roughly the same acreage of fresh market tomatoes per year, yet Florida farmers apply eight times more insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides than their counterparts in California.
Yet since then farmers have enjoyed record prices and incomes, and increasing yields.
In Cutervo, the centre of a big potato-growing region in the northern highlands, farmers have yet to find a way to turn potatoes into prosperity.
Farmers may yet have reason to be glum again.
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And after weeks of bad news, Tim Gibson and his fellow farmers have received yet more.
But other European pig farmers have not yet been faced with the same regulations.
Yet I know from visiting farmers, many in great financial distress, that we need an orderly transition to a market-oriented farm economy.
This is yet another blow to dairy farmers already struggling to survive.
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"A lot of farmers don't yet know the full economic implications the adverse weather conditions have had on their business, " he said.
"We did get some price increases from Muller Wiseman after the last lot of blockades but those haven't started coming into farmers' bank accounts yet, " he said.
Yet most entrepreneurs work hard, as do farmers, while facing enormous and unpredictable risks, only less based on weather.
While Tony Blair's government is currently feeling the full blast of farmers' anger, he may yet get their vote, as long as the Tories remain opposed to the single currency.
Yet the state still gives water away free to farmers, who grow such thirsty crops as sugar cane.
Later, he told me, aid, seed, and fertilizer would be offered to the farmers around Tirin Kot, but not yet.
Yet, there were never more than 33, 000 black farmers during the period.
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And while the Inland Revenue is being told to be lenient on farmers suffering just now, it may get unluckier yet when normal sales eventually resume and the taxman starts hunting for luckpennies to tax.
Yet there is indeed a gulf in productivity between the modern commercial farmers and the campesinos.
Instead, most farmers simply harvest their fruit early, when it is not yet fully ripe.
The practice caught on elsewhere, helping the farmers of the basin to get through the recent long drought using far less water than before yet with no reduction in output.
Yet Mr Gandhi, who was arrested (and released) in May while trying to speak up for farmers who had had their land stolen, failed to make much of an impression in recent local elections and is facing the most sustained criticism of his brief career.
The two farmers, identified as Hukkul Khan (a snake charmer) and Ramkul Ram, have not yet been apprehended.
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