What can be done to boost production and tap into the islands’ agricultural potential?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Nirmalla Debysingh-Persad, CEO, National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation: Interview from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Articles & Analysis | Agricultural exports medicinal cannabis and chocolate source of foreign exchange for Trinidad and Tobago from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Alongside tourism and financial services, agro-industry is an area that holds significant potential for diversification and growth in Trinidad and Tobago’s economy. With a rich tradition of agricultural production and a climate that facilitates the cultivation of a number of cocoa hybrids, the sector has long been earmarked as a potential driver of growth. Furthermore, both...
Chapter | Agriculture from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Agriculture still lags behind other sectors and continues to be overshadowed by the energy-...
Trinidad and Tobago is the largest producer of oil and gas in the Caribbean. While there is a need to diversify the economy away from its dependence on hydrocarbons, a number of new discoveries in late 2019 appear set to support a short-term recovery in the energy sector and lend financing to the wider economy.
Los funcionarios de agricultura del Perú estiman que las exportaciones de ese sector continuarán creciendo significativamente durante los próximos años, debido al aumento de la demanda de los mercados emergentes y a prácticas agrícolas más eficientes.
Articles & Analysis | High-value, export-oriented crops have enabled Mexico's agro-industry to expand from The Report: Mexico 2019
In recent years Mexico has emerged as a successful exporter of non-traditional crops such as avocados, berries and tomatoes. In 2018 during his first term in office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known by his acronym AMLO, made promises to reduce the country’s dependence on grain imports. However, as of mid-2019 the new...