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The Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies in St. Au­gus­tine, Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, is urg­ing Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram to push agri-tourism as a vi­able eco­nom­ic dri­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra is a Pro­fes­sor of Agri-En­vi­ron­men­tal Soil Physics at The UWI.

He says agri-tourism can boost both food se­cu­ri­ty and tourism if sup­port­ed through sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, and part­ner­ships with gov­ern­ment and glob­al al­lies.