ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC -The Director Normal of the Organisation of Jap Caribbean States (OECS), Dr. Didacus Jules, says the agricultural sector within the subregion has been dealing with a number of issues for the final 15 years.
Addressing the inaugural OECS Youth in Agriculture (YIA) symposium, which ends right here afterward Friday, Jules stated that the issues within the agricultural sector within the subregion have led to say no and contraction.
The OECS teams the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sr. Kitts-Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.
“Addressing these points requires a concerted effort to revitalize the sector, insurance policies that encourage youth participation, innovation, and sustainable practices.”
He stated that, recognizing “this worrying pattern,” agriculture ministers from the OECS agreed that younger individuals ought to be a precedence pillar in implementing the OECS Meals and Agriculture System Transformation.
Jules stated that this “Quick Technique” covers 2022-32. At their assembly in June final 12 months, OECS ministers mandated the St. Lucia-based OECS Fee to develop a youth within the agriculture program.
“This symposium is a key part of that program, and the targets of the Youth in Agriculture Symposium are bold however very important,” he stated, noting that it offers for selling the agricultural sector for youth involvement in addition to encouraging and supporting youth involvement in all levels of the agriculture chain and lift the profile of youths already in agriculture to encourage others.
The OECS Fee stated the symposium goals to attach the area’s subsequent technology of agricultural leaders by discussions on innovation, instruments, alternatives, and the circumstances essential to form the way forward for agriculture.
The Dominica authorities, by its Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Blue and Inexperienced Economic system, is internet hosting the symposium with different partnering companies, together with the European Union by the Regional Integration By Development Harmonisation and Know-how (RIGHT) program, United Nations Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Administration of Dominica, and World College Service of Canada (Caribbean).
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