(Trinidad Express) Government is looking at proposals by farmers to reopen the sugar industry and access funds from the European Union, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath said on Saturday.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Sugar and Energy Festival at Gilbert Park, Couva, Bharath said Government had identified seven pillars for the development of the agriculture sector, including a focus on people-centred development, poverty eradication and social justice, national and personal security, information and communication technologies, knowledge intensive economy, good governance and foreign policy.
Noting that the festival theme ’Growing with Energy’ focused on agriculture this year, Bharath said ’it seeks to encourage individuals to get involved in agricultural production, be it back yard gardening or grow box’.