Trinidad and To­ba­go’s agri­cul­tur­al di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion dri­ve has tak­en a ma­jor step for­ward with the suc­cess­ful har­vest of black eye beans un­der the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries’ pi­lot pro­gramme.

The ini­tia­tive, which al­so in­cludes corn and soya beans, is de­signed to test the com­mer­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty and scal­a­bil­i­ty of strate­gic crops in lo­cal con­di­tions.

The har­vest cer­e­mo­ny brought to­geth­er gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, farm­ers, tech­ni­cal agen­cies and de­vel­op­ment part­ners, un­der­scor­ing the col­lab­o­ra­tive na­ture of the project.