Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper Consistency in local agriculture a major challenge

Shopping greens in a T&T supermarket

By Shirley Bahadur

With regional governments and its private sector urging more agriculture production as a way of protecting the Caribbean Community from the risk of food shortages, comes word from the President of the local Supermarket’s Association that there remains the challenge of consistency, quality and reliability of agriculture products…

In the past weeks T&T has held two major agri expos-one in south and the other in north-to promote local eating while highlighting the many benefits of becoming part of the sector including establishing lucrative businesses.