The Trinidad farmers association remains in the dark about the contours of a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) which would see the development of agricultural lands here and it argues that the twin-island republic has ample land for any farming initiative contemplated.
“Our farming communities have been looking to the government to rectify expired leases for the past 18 years in Trinidad… we have been looking to the government to develop the land here in Trinidad, charity begins at home. Now they said that to reduce the food import bill we go to Guyana… we can reduce that by farming here,” Shiraz Khan, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Farmers Association told Stabroek News from Port-of-Spain in a recent phone interview.
He said that the recently signed MoU between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago that would see 10,000 acres of land being