Dealing with weather-related disruptions and increasing production has been challenging — Greene

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says it has been challenging to balance increasing production, while having to deal with so many weather-related disruptions.

He was speaking at today’s (September 28) plenary session, dubbed Transforming Regional Food Systems, a case for accelerating Vision 25 by 2025 + 5, at Caricom’s Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA), being staged at the Ocean Coral Spring Resort in Trelawny, from September 27 to October 2.

“I speak for the entire region when I say that is our biggest challenge. After Hurricane Beryl [in 2024] it took us a long time to get our irrigation systems up and running, because all of them relied on [power] and that was down, so all of the things we did after Beryl was to purchase some backup power, some generators,” the minister said.