Seemingly mindful that Trinidad and Tobago and much of the rest of the Caribbean are confronted with an existential food security threat that is accentuated by erratic weather patterns reposed in climate change, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has been commenting on the need for the twin-island republic to ‘beef up’ its agricultural credentials.
Delivering the feature address at the opening of the 2024 Agri Expo at the Queen’s Park Savannah last Saturday, Dr. Rowley, according to a report in the Saturday August 17 Guardian newspaper, asserted that the challenge confronting the country’s agriculture sector reposes in the fact that many of the still active farmers belong to what he reportedly described as “the “older cohorts of the population”, and while many of the older generation of the country’s farmers have passed on, they have not been replaced by young people.