| Archived Issue May 2008 |
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At the Crossroads
UWI Pro Vice Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Clement
Sankat, heralded the AgriTECH Expo 2008: Experience New
Agriculture as “the beginning of a new dawn in food security in
the region.” At the launch of the initiative at the St Augustine
Campus in April, the UWI Principal spoke of being at “the
crossroad of determining our future as a country and within the
Caribbean Region on how we can ensure our food security.” He
went on to add that Agriculture needed to be viewed and linked
to industry. “Technology and innovation, entrepreneurship and
wealth creation must be infused into it. It must therefore
transform itself and hence AgriTECH and the work of our
University, our Research and Development Centres, our
Agricultural Extension and other support services must be
invigorated to drive this transformation.”
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