Attaining meals safety is among the key pillars of the Authorities of St. Kitts and Nevis’ Sustainable Island State Agenda.
On this regard, the Ministry of Agriculture has launched into a number of formidable and modern tasks aimed toward decreasing the Federation’s massive meals import invoice by helping native farmers to considerably improve manufacturing.
One such measure that holds nice potential in reaching this purpose is the institution of Greenhouse Villages throughout St. Kitts and Nevis. Work on the primary such village within the Brothersons Property area close to Newton Floor is already underway.
“We have now ordered the greenhouses, they’ve landed on the island, we’re within the strategy of clearing out and mapping the land and constructing them out to [specifications], as a result of we now have to take cautious consideration within the administration of those villages,” stated Minister of Agriculture Samal Duggins throughout his contribution to the 2024 Finances Debate on Thursday.
The primary section of the Greenhouse Village entails the development of 15 state-of-the-art greenhouses that can specialize within the mass manufacturing of what the ministry has decided as precedence crops. These embody peppers, tomatoes, leafy greens, broccoli and cucumbers.
Along with offering greenhouses to farmers at a fraction price as a part of the Greenhouse Village initiative, Minister Duggins stated the Ministry of Agriculture may also undertake a mission to revitalize a variety of greenhouses across the island which are in numerous phases of dilapidation.
“Our tally means that by the top of 2024, we should always have over 100 energetic greenhouses within the Federation and naturally, that features these over in Nevis as properly,” Minister Duggins stated.
The honourable minister shared that the Federation’s meals import invoice stands at a worrying determine of practically $200 million. He stated they intention to make sure that a good portion of this determine can as a substitute go on to native producers and farmers.
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