Farmers Learn Climate-Smart Techniques To Protect Crops
Farmers from across the country participated in a one-day seminar on climate change to learn about the management of crops through flood, heat and drought.
The workshop was held on Tuesday by the MarVista Institute for Agriculture Training and Development in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, The Cropper Foundation and Republic Bank at the St James Youth Centre.
Chairman of the MarVista Institute, Marcus Mycoo, said with T&T feeling the effects of El Niño, farmers attending the seminar would gain practical knowledge to better prepare their farms for changing conditions.
« The institute has been collaborating with Republic Bank over the last four years to jointly host these types of workshops throughout the country and Trinidad and Tobago, and the areas we will be focusing on really are the techniques of how to manage crops through the challenging experiences of climate change. »
One of the participants at the seminar was Lyndi Jordan, a farmer from La Fillette Village. Ms Jordan represents Aurora Bitayson, an estate of over 50 years which specialises in citrus. She said besides regular pests, reduced rainfall and heat are affecting their crops.
« We love workshops like this. This climate change and looking at how we could be more resilient to flood, drought and heat because it gives us other opportunities to find new ways we may not have already established or known about to be able to remedy our crops. »
