Friday 12th September, 2014 saw the awarding of four students of the Success Laventille Composite and St George’s College with the winning prize for the Trinidad leg of the Regional…
CARDI Bi-weekly issue 45: 15 August 2014 - Protocols For Movement of Planting Material Being Developed.- Young CARDI Scientists Being Trained In Mexico.- Denbigh Show Celebrates 62nd Year
With a focus on increasing crop and small ruminant productivity by equipping the Region’s agribusiness sector to deal with the challenges of climate change, increasing incidence of invasive pests, low productivity and increasing costs of inputs, CARDI has established a Revenue Generating Unit. (more…)
Project, titled ‘Developing capacity to analyse and strengthen root and tuber value chains in the Caribbean region, for improved food security’, was developed through a joint effort between CARDI and…
As the implementing agency for the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Project titled ‘Diversification of the Caribbean Livestock Sector through the production of small ruminants’, the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) hosted a series of training workshop over the past six months, on ‘key elements for improving small ruminant productivity in Trinidad and Tobago’. The goal of this training curriculum is to build the capacity of technical personnel, producers and other key value chain actors in the production and marketing of small ruminant products. (more…)
The Caribbean was represented at the conference, Fin4Ag: Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains, 14-18 July 2014, Kenya, by fifteen (15) participants from the private sector (buyers, producers, and micro finance companies) and facilitating agencies, CARDI, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Caribbean Farmers Network (CAFAN) and the Caribbean Agri-business Association (CABA). (more…)
As part of the process of developing its Medium Term Plan (MTP) 2014-2016, the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) hosted a series of National Consultations in its member countries during the period of 15-18 July 2014. Grenada’s Consultation held on 17 July at the Produce Chemist Lab, St George’s; whilst the Trinidad and Tobago Unit hosted its National Consultation on 18 July 2014 at CARDI’s Headquarters, University Campus, St Augustine; with concurrent National Consultations being held in Barbados, Belize and Jamaica. (more…)
On 26th June, 2014, CARDI received a visit from Ms. Kathleen Pearce, Deputy Director, Global Bilateral Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand. At that meeting, Ms. Pearce met with a senior CARDI team, with officials from CARICOM and FAO, Barbados joining on a GoTo Meeting hook up. (more…)
4th Meeting of CARICOM Cluster of Agricultural Institutes ...... discussiing the needs of Regional agriculture more