Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived a do­na­tion of 19,000 kilo­grams of rice and 12,500 litres of ed­i­ble oil from the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia. The sup­plies were for­mal­ly hand­ed over by In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Dr Pradeep Ra­jpuro­hit dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny on Wednes­day at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture’s head of­fice in Ch­agua­nas.

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Ravi Rati­ram ac­cept­ed the do­na­tion on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment, say­ing it would be dis­trib­uted to vul­ner­a­ble fam­i­lies na­tion­wide. He called the ges­ture “a re­flec­tion of the en­dur­ing strength of In­dia’s co­op­er­a­tive in­sti­tu­tions and their will­ing­ness to sup­port glob­al part­ners in a time of need.”

The con­tri­bu­tion was fa­cil­i­tat­ed through the Haryana State Co­op­er­a­tive Sup­ply and Mar­ket­ing Fed­er­a­tion Ltd. (HAFED), with lo­gis­ti­cal and stor­age sup­port pro­vid­ed by NAMDE­V­CO. The ini­tia­tive al­so in­volved the Min­istries of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Trade and In­dus­try, and Agri­cul­ture.