The Ministry of Food Production on Tuesday launched a new project to engage workers from the Unemployment Relief Program (URP) in the agricultural sector to boost production.
The Agriculture Now program will touch farms across T&T.
In launching it at the La Pastora Propagation Plant, Santa Cruz, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath said it serves the dual purpose of increasing the human resources for the agricultural sector while employing thousands of workers.
Bharath said the Agriculture Now is a constructive program that would provide value for the investment.
The programme has four components; training, provision of skilled labour for large farms, maintenance work at La Pastora and Queen’s Park Oval and maintenance of ministry’s infrastructure.
The programme has four components; training, provision of skilled labour for large farms, maintenance work at La Pastora and Queen’s Park Oval and maintenance of ministry’s infrastructure.
“We want you to be in a position that if you decide to be self-sufficient subsequent to the programme, you will be able to do so,” Bharath told Bharath said the first group of 32 trainees, who were selected from Laventille West, Mt Hope, St Ann’s East, San Juan and Barataria.
The workers will receive $69 a day during three-month training programme for seven hours of work. They would get $150 a day when the training is completed.
The workers will receive $69 a day during three-month training programme for seven hours of work. They would get $150 a day when the training is completed.
The minister said said the project will contribute to food security and allow people to develop life skills through working on the large farms. He urged the trainees to look to a future when they can become entrepreneurs with their own farms.
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