Regional Farmers Association and Training Intuition planning
for Caribbean Food Security
Kevoy Community Development Institute a NGO which provides Farm Management and Community Development Training was listed among invitees to the regional Small Holders Crop Production and Marketing study visit in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Over the past week February 16th -20th (ECTAD) the Eastern Caribbean Trade Agriculture & Development Organization through its newly formed CaFAN – the Caribbean Farmers Network in collaboration with International Partners IICA, CARDI and WINFA ,with technical support from the Taiwan Technical Mission on Agriculture sponsored a Small Holders Crop Production and Marketing study visit in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Programme which was funded by CTA – the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Co-operation saw representatives from Antgua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica ,Grenada ,Guyana ,Jamaica ,St.Kitt & Nevis, St.Lucia , Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as small farmers throughout the region met to discuss the existing challenges, best practices ,market determination and developing mechanization application.
Jamaica was represented by a three man team which included Thomas Mayne of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Gifton Griffiths of the Christiana Potato Growers Association and Arthur Green of Kevoy Community Development Institute
The study visit mission was set against the background for the Caribbean to in real and practical ways find sustainable means to feed itself while through quality products improves its market potential to higher levels of export earnings.
The group which met in the St. Vincent capital - Kingstown , is preparing to make representation to the next meeting of Caricom heads in Belize through a position paper and is expecting to engage in further dialogue at the agriculture minister’s level as a more comprehensive plan is being developed for and around the sector across the region.
Kevoy Community Development Institute
Finance Director - Mr. Arthur Green JP
