CARDI Bi-weekly issue 21: 15 April 2013

April 8 2013:- The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) signed a three year Technical Cooperation Agreement on Wednesday 27th March, 2013…

The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) invites applications for a short term consultancy (30-35 days over a 7 month period) on project impact assessment at its Headquarters in…

March 19, 2013:- On Friday 15^th March, 2013, the Region witnessed the signing of a Euro 8.6 million European Union/Intra-ACP Project, titled ‘Intra ACP Agriculture Policy Programme’.  The Signing Ceremony was held at the office of the EU Commission, Georgetown, Guyana.

CARDI is one of three Implementing Partners.  The other two are the CARICOM Secretariat and IICA with the latter doubling up as the Project Executing Agency.  CARDI has direct responsibility for Component Two, “Improving the transfer and adoption of applied agricultural production and processing research results and technologies, and where appropriate, generate new technologies for target commodities”.  (more…)

The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and the Ministry of Food Production (MFP) working together to strengthen and diversify the local small ruminant industry in Trinidad and Tobago. (more…)

CARDI St. Kitts and Nevis hosted a sweet potato field day on 12 December 2012 at the field station in Estridge. The event was featured in The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer,…