The Stabroek Business has already commented on the fact that the local Ministry of Agriculture is yet to make public such plans as it might have for participation in the United Nations-designated International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV) this year. When last we checked about a week ago we were told that no information on the country’s participation in the IYFV-related activities had become available so far. Two months into the IYFV we believe that a participation plan ought, by now, to have been available. We make this point not just from the standpoint of a local fruit and vegetable cultivation sub-sector that makes equally important contributions to local employment and to nutritional standards but also to helping to feed parts of the rest of the Caribbean and further afield.