April 2017


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Meeting with the Agriculture Minister

Senator Clarence Rambharat, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries (right), speaks with Campus Principal Professor Brian Copeland (centre) and Dr. Wayne Ganpat, Dean of the Faculty of Food and Agriculture. The Minister paid a March 8 visit to the campus to discuss topics that included youth in agriculture, the cocoa industry, land management and others. The meeting also included a team from the Ministry, representatives from the FAO, IICA, CARDI and the Cocoa Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago. The UWI team included senior administration, deans, department heads and faculty members involved in the campus food and agriculture-based study and research. In recent years UWI St. Augustine has intensified its work in the area of food and agriculture, seeing it as a prime industry for innovation, commercialisation and diversification of the economy. Professor Copeland has also made engagement with the wider society and closer university-government-industry cooperation a major priority of his tenure.