Agriculture Minister Denis Lett said that government has embarked on a plan to build “critical capacities’’ in the agricultural sector in Grenada.
The plan, which would also help lower the unemployment rate in the country, as well address incidences of food-related chronic non-communicable diseases, puts youth at the centre of the initiative, Lett said.
The Minister made the comments in an address to a workshop in St George’s of the Caribbean Farmers’ Network (CaFAN).
More than 40 young business farmers and agro-business leaders from 12 Caribbean countries, including Grenada, attended the workshop which was jointly organised by the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group and the European Union; the Caribbean Development Bank; the United Nations Development Programme; and the Marketing and National Importing Board of Grenada.
Minister Lett lamented that while consumers’ behavior patterns are changing, there are no corresponding changes in our agricultural production methodologies.
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