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Seated, from left, are Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D Aguilar and Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard. (PHOTO: TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar and Minister of Agriculture Michael Pintard recently signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a new initiative aimed at engendering a “viable and visible linkage” between local farmers and fishermen and the hospitality industry.
The collaboration is the result of an initiative of the Tourism Development Corporation, which hailed the collaboration as a “groundbreaking strategic alliance”.
“Even though the proposed agritourism initiative was in the works, being advanced by both ministers respectively, the COVID-19 pandemic was really the catalyst that propelled this much-needed strategic alliance along,” a statement by the Tourism Development Corporation read.
Two government ministries have forged a partnership designed to boost economic ties between The Bahamas tourism and agriculture/marine industries to facilitate the latter s growth.
Dionisio D Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, and Michael Pintard, minister of agriculture and marine resources, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the Agritourism Committee as a body that will improve linkages between local farmers and fishermen and the tourism industry.
Modelled on how other Caribbean countries such as Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua and Jamaica have aided local economic sectors by developing ties to tourism, the Agritourism Committee will be co-chaired by Mark Humes, MP and chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural Health & Food Safety Authority (BAHFSA), and Janet Johnson, chief executive/executive director of the Tourism Development Corporation (TDC).