Government is sowing new seeds of hope into agriculture with a goal of reaping future benefits while fixing some of the systemic challenges affecting the sector.

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security Dr Shantal Munro-Knight outlined some of the projects yesterday during a Breakfast Colloquium held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Two Mile Hill, St Michael.

Following the establishment earlier this year of the Antipraedial Larceny Task Force, in a joint effort between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Barbados Police Service, she announced an interagency pilot to address praedial larceny and the issue of monkeys destroying crops.