Even as the respective countries in the Caribbean continue to take their own separate tilts at bemoaning what they regard as the distressing state in which much of the region’s agricultural sector finds itself, there still appears to be no apparent region-wide move to respond to what is regarded as a looming crisis. Evidence of an acute crisis in the region’s agriculture sector as a whole has long been reflected in its mounting food import bill which is now believed to be somewhere in the region of US$5 billion. Individual CARICOM member countries have been, in turn, taking passing tilts at the failure of the Caribbean to feed itself and last week the issue arose again at the Annual Review Conference of the Bank of Barbados in Bridgetown.
