Tree-planting gesture for World Food Day
Date: Tue 12-Oct-1993
Paper Page: 32
Publication: Daily Nation
THE MINISTERS of Agriculture and Environment demonstrated a commitment to
feeding Barbadians yesterday by planting fruit trees.
As part of the activities for World Food Day, which will be celebrated globally
October 16, the Agriculture Minister, David Bowen, and his counterpart in the
Ministry of the Environment, Senator Harcourt Lewis, shared the shovel in
ceremonies at The St. Michael School and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
Bowen said the tree-planting shows the community Government's concern and
interest in ensuring there will be food for all Barbadians. He said Government's
policy on agricultural diversification is but one example of that commitment.
The minister predicted that in another year the diversification programme will
expand.
"Come World Food Day 1994 the whole diversification programme should take
on a bigger perspective," he said.