THE WORK being done by the Barbados office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to interest youth in agriculture has come in for praise from permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Esworth Reid.
Speaking at an IICA seminar on Tuesday at Baobab Tower, Warrens, St Michael, Reid said that if programmes were not put in place to stimulate and maintain the interest of young people in agriculture, Barbados’ food security could be compromised and the agricultural sector would not become sustainable.
He therefore commended the work of the regional organisation for its contribution to raising the level of agricultural development. He also said the emphasis now being placed on the agricultural sector was important to the reorganisation of a “misconstrued model” of economic development, which he claimed Barbados and other Caribbean countries had adopted since Independence.
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