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Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says more than 30 farm­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing trained in new agri­cul­tur­al meth­ods to with­stand the ef­fects of cli­mate change.

Speak­ing at the of­fi­cial launch of the Re­gion­al Readi­ness Project: Strength­en­ing the Ev­i­den­tial Ba­sis for the Adop­tion of Adap­ta­tion Tech­nolo­gies for Small­hold­er Farm­ers, held at Cara Suites on Tues­day, Rati­ram said the ini­tia­tive is a part­ner­ship be­tween the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, the Min­istry of Plan­ning, the Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion (FAO), and the Green Cli­mate Fund.