The Ministry of Agriculture recently commissioned its Biological and Tissue Culture laboratories and attention will now be focused on a soil testing lab.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) report, the main aim of the laboratories, located at National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute, at Mon Repos, is to produce 10,000 disease-free plantlets through tissue culture by 2015 to combat pests and diseases.
GINA stated that the project was undertaken in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute for
