ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada and Cuba have signed an settlement meant to outcome within the Spanish-Spanish-speaking offering technical help and assist to spice up, develop, and improve the agricultural sector.
Agriculture Minister Lennox Andrews advised a information convention on Tuesday that the settlement covers 4 broad areas for cooperation.
“The primary one has to do with agriculture and vegetable merchandise,” mentioned Andrews, who was amongst 4 different authorities ministers, together with Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, who visited Cuba on an official four-day journey from April 11 to 14.
“Particularly, the doc refers to exchanging experiences with agriculture producers, endeavor coaching for the manufacturing of horticulture seeds and grains tailored to the weather conditions, and introducing new varieties which can be resistance crops and seeds,” he mentioned.
“It additionally speaks to providing technical help for producing fruits, greens, and different crops that curiosity the 2 nations. It additionally refers to providing technical help and coaching in local weather resilience agricultural practices,” mentioned Andrews, who additionally serves as Minister for Financial Improvement and Planning.
He added, “We might additionally take into account technical help in vegetable pathology, agroecological administration, and decorative flower manufacturing.”
The second broad space is within the space of livestock and animal merchandise.
“And right here we are going to cooperate to enhance the methods in synthetic insemination in sheep and goats…and transfer in the direction of genetic enchancment of our livestock,” mentioned Andrews.
He mentioned the third space is forestry, and “right here we’re going to conduct investigations and trade in forest dealing with and the opposite areas.
’Almost about the world of fisheries and aquaculture, the broad goal is to ascertain the bases that may enable the events to supply one another the technical cooperation and help to develop aquaculture adequately.”
Andrews advised reporters that the cooperation will contain a number of deliberate actions and will likely be based mostly on consultancy, coaching, technological trade, and trade of professions by way of the execution of an motion plan in areas of mutual curiosity.
“Within the space of fisheries, we’d concentrate on technical trade particularly for deep sea marine fishing. As regards aquaculture, our cooperation will contain a number of completely different areas, so there will likely be technical trade on tilapia and farming within the freshwater atmosphere, together with shrimp farming,” he mentioned.
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