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Agriculture Society president Darryl Rampersad is hoping the measures outlined for the sector in the 2025/2026 budget on October 13 come to fruition.

Rampersad told Newsday that the association was no stranger to government promises which never materialised.

"What we are looking at from the perspective of agriculture is we want to see that it's no longer a talk shop. We want to see that agriculture is on the front-line burner; we want to see things happening within the agriculture sector as well.