Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has underscored the importance of the agriculture sector, describing it as “critical” to this region.
Mottley made the comments after visiting the headquarters of the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) in Suriname. She had earlier toured the Central Market with Suriname’s president, Desi Bouterse, as part of a three-day visit to that CARICOM member state. The prime minister said: “If we start to see agriculture, not in the context or through the plantation model, but as a sector that is critical in a world that is very uncertain and very dangerous, both by climate change considerations as well as geopolitical considerations, then we would appreciate the absolute need to value the two most precious things – water and food. If you value water and food, then we have to protect them.” She noted that New Zealand has worked assiduously to protect the health of its agriculture and to ensure that its food products were safe.
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