An action plan to signal the beginning of a second phase to the Fruit and Vegetable Demonstration and Extension Cooperation Project involving the Taiwan mission based here and the Ministry of Agriculture has been signed.
This took place on Monday at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives. Signatories were Agriculture Minister Ezechiel Joseph and the Taiwanese Ambassador to Saint Lucia Ray Mou.
On January 12, 2016 the Taiwan Technical Mission officially handed over the project to the agriculture sector marking the completion of phase one of the project which began in 2011 and ended in 2015.
The project forms part of the mutual cooperation which continues to exist between the Government of Saint Lucia and the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan. It is designed to improve on the quality and quantity of selected fruits and vegetables for the domestic market. The crops selected for the project were: watermelon, cantaloupe, papaya, pineapple, tomato, sweet pepper, cabbage lettuce and cucumber.
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