00:00The URP has a mandate to start producing in a big way to sustain the food production in Tobago right
00:11now at this time.
00:12So I at the head is mandated to do that for the division and for Tobago on the whole.
00:24TV6 News was taken on a tour of the Roxburgh URP Agricultural Unit where we were shown a wide variety
00:32of crops to be harvested.
00:33We have been producing vegetables, leaf crops, corn, cassava, potato, we have green fig.
00:43We have a wide range of produce. We have sweet potato, I think I said that earlier.
00:49We have cabbage, we have bygone, we plant lots of bygone. So we are harvesting those things presently at the
00:56time.
00:56And there is a massive cassava project on the way with an aim of having by-products from the cassava
01:04harvested.
01:05Over 10,000 cassava sticks, sweet potato and corn were planted.
01:10We have took the initiative to start cultivating cassava in a very large scale because we have an intention.
01:18Our intention is to do by-products with the cassava. So the idea is to make cassava logs, cassava mash.
01:31So beside the cassava project and the potato and so forth, we do seedlings, plenty of seedlings, all different seedlings
01:38that we sell to the public and to farmers.
01:41We provide, you know, lettuce, tomato, sweet pepper, cabbage, kale, celery, parsley, popo and all varieties in a large scale.
01:54He is encouraging Tobagonians to return to the land to revitalize Tobago's agricultural sector.
02:00I feel great because that's my passion. So I feel great doing it.
02:05And I just want to expand and encourage the farmers and Tobagonians on a whole, let us get back to
02:10the earth and that we plant, we own food so that we could sustain ourselves.
02:18Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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