Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at UWI St Au­gus­tine, Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, is call­ing on Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram to ag­gres­sive­ly pur­sue agri­cul­tur­al tourism as a vi­able eco­nom­ic dri­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Speak­ing dur­ing a sem­i­nar on cli­mate-re­silient food sys­tems, Pro­fes­sor Wud­di­vi­ra said agri-tourism can be at the fore­front of di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion if sup­port­ed through col­lab­o­ra­tion among UWI, Gov­ern­ment, and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners like South Africa.

“This presents a very unique op­por­tu­ni­ty to us as a coun­try and al­so as a re­gion to re­al­ly strength­en what we are do­ing in our agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor,” Wud­di­vi­ra said.