Can the Caribbean Farm its Way Out of Reliance on Food Imports?
CARICOM nations want to slash food imports by growing more of it at home. Experts call it a daunting but worthwhile challenge.
PORT OF SPAIN — When Trinidadian tech support specialist Nikcolai Salandy lost his job with a Miami brokerage firm last July, he shelved his dreams of a career in finance to focus on a different type of investment: a greenhouse to cultivate mushrooms, dragon fruit and microgreens. Salandy is planning to build a 3,000-square-foot facility on family land in the town of Petit Valley outside the capital of Port of Spain, where he grew vegetables as a hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic. Underpinning the project is a grant of nearly $60,000 from the government of Trinidad and Tobago, which is...
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