Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states have been able to achieve 57% of the target set in keeping with cutting the region’s food import bill by 25% by 2025.
A Ministry of Agriculture release on Monday noted the announcement on February 3rd at the first meeting (held virtually) of the CARICOM Ministerial Taskforce (MTF) on Food Production and Food Security that member states were collectively able to achieve 57% of the target set in keeping with realizing ‘Vision 25 by 2025’.
According to the data, products such as cocoa reached 96.13%, dairy 84.36%, meat 72.28%, root crops 70.91%, fruits70.77%, and poultry 70.19%, of the targeted production volume set for the year 2025.
