Pioneering the commercial cultivation of carrots and onions in Trinidad, Caribbean Chemicals says that it would be open to doing the same here.
“We’d be open to that depending on the circumstances,” said Martin Lopez, the Agriculture Manager at the company’s local operations. “We have been part and parcel of the whole agriculture thrust,” he noted.
Caribbean Chemicals is leading the way in commercially producing carrots and onions in Trinidad. The first-ever commercially viable onion crop in Trinidad and Tobago was harvested at the end of February at the Tucker Valley Farm, Chaguaramas, in a pilot project run by the Ministry of Food Production and Caribbean Chemicals Ltd, media in the island reported in March. Approximately 30,000 plants in three varieties
