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Rais­ing food pro­duc­tion and low­er­ing the food im­port bill must be one of the main goals of the next gov­ern­ment, ad­vis­es agribusi­ness con­sul­tant Riyadh Mo­hammed.

With the gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28, Mo­hammed shared his wish list on shap­ing T&T's agri­cul­ture sec­tor with the Busi­ness Guardian.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert in his bud­get state­ment in 2024 re­vealed that the coun­try's food im­port bill was a stag­ger­ing $7.2 bil­lion.