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MANAGING FOOD SECURITY 2021 AND BEYOND
by
Bindra Kaiwal Maharaj
The fall in world oil prices coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed T&T s vulnerability and highlighted the acute food insecurity that exists. T&T s dependence on fluctuating world oil prices, emphasis on natural gas and the petrochemicals industry have become detrimental to the agriculture sector.
COVID-19 has given us a great opportunity to refocus and reinvent ourselves as we seek to prioritise the agriculture sector and put it in line to contribute to the country s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and as a valuable foreign exchange earner.
(IICA), Press Release
In this country, IICA is assisting the Moruga Hill Rice Multipurpose Cooperative Society to launch its Red Gold Hill Rice brand, under the IICA Director General’s special COVID-19 initiative – the Single Fund for Technical Cooperation
Port of Spain, 29 January 2021 (IICA) In the community of Moruga, Trinidad, some 40 farming families and members of the Moruga Hill Rice Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MHRMCSL) are carrying on generations of hill rice farming. This rice variety was brought from the United States to Trinidad in 1812 by the Merikins, formerly enslaved persons and ex-soldiers. For these re-settlers, hill rice became a basic source of food security.
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