Georgetown : Guyana will be hosting the Caribbean Week of Agriculture, an activity that provides opportunities to profile aspects of agriculture in the Region, and affords Agriculture Ministers the occasion to seek to give meaning to CARICOM’s Agricultural Policy.
Senior Programme Coordinator of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Jose Fonseca today announced that Guyana would be the venue for this year’s event. Last year Antigua and Barbuda hosted the event.
Fonseca made the announcement during a workshop on the implementation and mainstreaming of Regional Fisheries Policies into Small-scale Fisheries Governance Arrangements in the Caribbean, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)/Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk Organisation (CNFO) and CTA.
“The Caribbean Week of Agriculture is additional opportunity for fisherfolks to engage with policy makers,” Fonseca said at the forum held at the Grand Coastal Inn, East Coast Demerara.
In response to the announcement, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy assured that Guyana would do its best in hosting the event. “We are honoured and we commit to make this Caribbean Week of Agriculture one of the biggest, and one that meets its obligation in this region,” he said.
Minister Ramsammy emphasised that the persons who would be on the working committee of the event should ensure that fishing is a part of food production and should not be treated as an orphan.
“And indeed we must start now because there is a working group made up of Caricom, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation), IICA (Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture), CRFM, the Government of Guyana and so on… that the Caribbean network of fisher-folk organisation should be a part of the working committee for Caribbean Week of Agriculture,” he pointed out.
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