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In 2018, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) donated $5,000 worth of equipment to support the beekeeping industry in Antigua and Barbuda.
Agriculture has been an important industry in Antigua and Barbuda since it was colonised in the 1600s. Today, less than five per cent of the population works in agriculture, [1] and agriculture only contributes to 2.1% of the GDP. The primary crops exported by Antigua and Barbuda are bananas, coconuts, and other tropical fruits and vegetables.
The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) [1] carries out research and development for agriculture in the Caribbean region. [2] Its headquarters are on the campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), at St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago and it also has national offices throughout the region.
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The decline in the sugar industry left 60% of the country's 66,000 acres (270 km 2) under government control, and the Ministry of Agriculture is encouraging self-sufficiency in certain foods in order to curtail the need to import food, which accounts for about 25% by value of all imports. Crops suffer from droughts and insect pests, and cotton ...
Betty's Hope was a sugarcane plantation in Diamonds, Antigua.It was established in 1650, shortly after the island had become an English colony, and flourished as a successful agricultural industrial enterprise during the centuries of slavery.
She served as Minister in the Ministries of Agriculture, Lands, Marine Resources [3] & Agro-Industry and of Legal Affairs [4] respectively in the Government of Antigua & Barbuda from 2004 – 2014. She has held several leadership positions in non-governmental organizations in Antigua and Barbuda and is an Executive Director of the Caribbean ...
American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine [1] [2] Metropolitan University College of Medicine (MUCM) [3] University of Health Sciences Antigua (UHSA) [1] [4] University of the West Indies at Five Islands [5] [6]