Caribbean AgTech Investment Opportunities

Caribbean AgTech Investment Summit, 2021

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR

Trinidad and Tobago’s Agriculture Industry is primarily focused on production for domestic consumption with very negligible export content. Crop production is mainly concentrated on short-term root crops and vegetables and within meat/livestock the country is relatively self-sufficient in broilers, pork and eggs. There is a vibrant Fisheries sub-industry that is dominated by an artisanal fleet. During the first quarter of fiscal 2020 food crop production consisted of:

Vegetables (67.3%)

Root Crops

(15.1%)

Celery

Pumpkin

Chives

Cucumber

Eddoes

Sweet Potatoes

Dasheen

Cassava

Melongene

Dasheen

Bush

Ochro

Yam

Ginger

Others

Fruits

(12.6%)

(4. 8 %) Rice

Copra (0.2%)

Tomato Cabbage

Bodi

Lettuce

Cauliflower

Pineapple Pawpaw

made up the remainder of crop production.

and others

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