Booths Available for Eat Local Day
Vendors can begin applying on Monday (May 6) for booths at the upcoming Eat Local Day Grand Exhibition and Food Fair. The Fair is being hosted by the Division of Food Production, Forestry and Fisheries on May 29 at Scarborough’s Gardenside Car Park. Categories for vending include: food, seedlings, herbs and agro-processors. Registration is open […]
Produce, Process, Promote: Eat Local
The Division of Food Production, Forestry and Fisheries will launch its Eat Local Campaign 2019 next Tuesday (April 2, 2019). The theme for this year’s campaign is ‘Celebrate Our Local Foods: Produce, Process, Promote’. The objectives of Eat Local Campaign include to promote and sensitize the public to the nutritional and health benefits of local […]
Celebrating the Main Ridge
The Department of Natural Resources and Forestry in collaboration with FAO, Environment Tobago, and Turtle Village Trust is inviting the public to walk, run, or cycle in celebration of the 243rd anniversary of the protected status of the Main Ridge Forest Reserve. The event takes place on Friday (March 29, 2019), starting at the Roxborough […]
URP Workers Get Cassava Crop Training
Seven workers of the Underemployment Relief Programme (URP) are participating in the Farmer’s Field of Cassava Agronomy training programme. Pathleen Titus, technical advisor in the Division of Food Production Forestry and Fisheries said the Farmer’s Field School was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization. It’s an opportunity to give farmers hands-on training in several […]
Finance Boost For Farmers
Financing in the farming and forestry industry is expected to be improved with tomorrow’s launch of the National Agricultural Finance Support Programme, better known as the Agro-Incentive. And industry stakeholders, including crop and livestock farmers, fisher-folk, wildlife farmers, agro-processors, and licensed woodcutters and saw millers are being invited to attend the launch from 5 p.m. […]
Food Safety Training Course
Thirty-two Tobagonians benefited from a Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training Course recently. The course is in accordance with the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA). Secretary of Food Production, Forestry and Fisheries Hayden Spencer presented certificates to the participants yesterday (December 6) at the Division’s Glen Road office. The course provided participants with training in seven […]