Agricultural Finance Support Programme (Agro-Incentive) Governance Framework and Form

The Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries today announced the availability of a major new financial support for bona fide farmers, fisherfolk and agricultural producers, in a policy move aimed at stewarding state support to agribusinesses that need a specific intervention. The vision is for producers to strengthen, expand or modernise their operations. (more…)

Senator the Honourable Clarence Rambharat, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, says that in the granting of agricultural leases, special focus is being placed on those farmers who are in actual production. (more…)

Citizens will soon be able to complete applications for State land online Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat announced Friday during a brief ceremony to launch the Ministry’s new website at its Chaguanas head office. (more…)

The Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Senator the Honourable Clarence Rambharat has said that a considerable percentage of the vehicles acquired by so-called farmers under the Ministry’s current incentive structure, were “vanity purchases” which “never ended up on a farm or with fruit, vegetables or fish on it.” (more…)

“In building capacity we must recognise that we will never get to a point where we can develop without causing disruption. The challenge is to minimize such damage and manage the process of development.” (more…)

n the interest of clarity and transparency, Senator the Honourable Clarence Rambharat, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, has formally written to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (MOF), requesting that the Central Audit Committee (MOF), conduct an audit into all flood assistance paid out to farmers in excess of $75,000. (more…)

“Most of the farmers in the Nariva / Mayaro district are farmers with absolutely no paperwork for the lands they currently occupy and it is for that reason that particular focus has been placed on them and other farmers around the country.”
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