Foreign tastes keeping regional food bill high – CARDI Executive Director

Dr Arlington Chesney

Food security considerations and continually escalating food import bills are yet to push the Caribbean in the direction of investing significantly more resources in its agricultural sector, according to Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) Dr Arlington Chesney.

“The region as a whole has to put some more emphasis and resources into agricultural development,” Chesney told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview, noting that “with the exception