Farmers with reliable water access urged to ramp up production to meet Christmas demand

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, is encouraging farmers with adequate water access to consider doubling their output to meet the upcoming demand for ground provisions and vegetables for Christmas.

He said that the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), National Irrigation Commission (NIC) and Agro-Investment Corporation (Agro-Invest) are rolling out a programme to identify willing and able farmers in the agro-parks, and those who have reliable water access and underutilised land, to provide them with some support to expand their production.

“Clearly, there are some areas now that don't have access to water, and those farmers can’t really expand their production, no matter how much water we truck to them, because it’s just not viable.