The downturn in the fortunes of the Caribbean’s two traditionally most successful agricultural commodities, sugar and bananas may have sown seeds of doubt in the minds of regional policymakers regarding the role of the food and agriculture sectors in the future of regional economies, according to one of the region’s leading agricultural specialists.
Director of Agriculture at the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies Dr Chelston Braithwaite told the 47th Annual Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS) meeting in Barbados earlier this month that the refusal of Caribbean governments to make more significant investments in the agricultural
