Recent weeks have seen the Ministry of Agriculture working with various local small farmers in the production of pitaya, soursop, coconut and onions. Trainings on identifying and producing various grafted versions of some fruits have been the focus of the ministry. Last week, training sessions continued in Yo Creek.
Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture: “So we decided to, based on market led approach, profit driven, identified commodities we wanted to work on one of them was coconut, second was pitaya, third was soursop. These three products are the ones we gave a lot of emphasis. So we signed agreements with the Mexican government for technical cooperation in these commodities. They have good expertise in pitaya, they have coconuts. They also have soursop but we also received assistance from the FAO for Soursop. We brought in two or three times an expert from Brazil to train our farmers how to grow Soursop. Soursop is a bit challenging at times, you can’t get the fruit the correct size before it gets infected with something and you don’t have a good source of crop. So we are learning that process.”
Source: lovefm.com