Bajan agri expert advocates more local investment in food cultivation

Having traditionally looked to tourism as the island’s major money earner for decades, Barbados is beginning to advocate greater reliance be placed on agriculture both as an economic resource and as a provider of jobs.

Earlier this month, agriculture expert and Managing Director of Produce Growers Ltd, Keeley Holder, told a lunchtime lecture that agriculture has the potential to help address the growing problem of youth unemployment on the island. More than that Holder is of the view