Dominica hosts OECS agriculture ministers assembly
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Dominica hosts OECS agriculture ministers assembly

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Agriculture ministers from the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) met in Dominica on Friday amid considerations that the rising value of gasoline will proceed to have an effect on the sector within the sub-region.

“I’m taking up the chairmanship at a tough time for agriculture particularly. We all know the rising prices of gasoline, the rising prices of feed are inflicting important meals shortages all over the world,” mentioned Dominica’s Agriculture Minister, Fidel Grant.

He mentioned the assembly intends to prioritize the OECS when it comes to what “it’s that we must be doing” including” we hope to see enhancements when it comes to discount in meals costs (and) we hope to see what measures that may be put in place to extend (meals) manufacturing in order that the prices to households might be decreased”.

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Grant mentioned he expects important enter from the OECS, as a company, in supporting collectively and individually member states coping with the problem of meals safety.

“We’re additionally how we might develop the blue financial system throughout the area. There are a number of ongoing initiatives which help the blue financial system and what we hope to do is to see how we will consolidate that,” Grant mentioned.

An estimated 2.8 million folks or almost 40 % of the inhabitants within the English-speaking Caribbean is meals insecure, a million greater than in April 2020, based on the outcomes of a latest survey performed by the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) and the United Nations World Meals Program (WFP). Extreme meals insecurity continues to extend within the area with the present determine 72 % greater when in comparison with April 2020. Excessive meals costs proceed to have an effect on folks’s capacity to afford a nutritious weight loss plan with 93 % of respondents reporting greater costs for meals in comparison with 59 % in April 2020.

The OECS teams the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts-Nevis, Anguilla, Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands.

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