The seventeenth Caribbean Week of Agriculture will get underway in Nassau, the Bahamas, 9-13 October 2023 underneath the theme ‘Accelerating Imaginative and prescient 25 by 2025’.
The CWA offers a discussion board for the important thing decision-makers in the private and non-private sectors inside the Area to focus on the significance of agriculture and rural life to the financial, social and environmental stability of Member States. It additionally affords the most important stakeholders in agriculture and associated sectors the chance to forge a standard imaginative and prescient for the event of agriculture and the enhancement of rural life.
The official opening of CWA might be held on Tuesday at The Bahamas Breezes Resort and Spa in Nassau, the place all the opposite actions, together with seminars and the Exposition and Commerce Present, might be held.
Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Hon Philip Davis, will ship the keynote tackle and declare the CWA open. The opposite audio system on the occasion will embody the Minister of Agriculture of The Bahamas, the Hon Jomo Campbell, the Secretary-Basic of the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM), Dr. Carla Barnett, the Director Basic of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Dr. Manuel Otero, the Govt Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Analysis and Improvement Institute (CARDI), Mr. Ansari Hosein, the Sub-Regional Coordinator of the Meals and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Dr. Renata Clarke, and Consultant and Nation Director of the World Meals Programme, Mr. Regis Chapman.
Throughout the opening ceremony, awards might be introduced to the Farmer of the Yr and the Youth Farmer of the Yr.