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Feeding Tomorrow, Starting Today
Food Security
Reviving idle farmlands with modern greenhouse and protected agriculture techniques, empowering youth in agriculture, and positioning Eastern Hanover as a food-secure constituency.
Agri-Park Development
- Reintroduce agri-park concept at Belvedere and Chester Castle
- Focus crops: bananas, plantains, yams, and peppers
- Emphasise modern greenhouse and protected agriculture
- Upgrade Smithfield Agriculture Training Facility with new technology and research capabilities
Youth in Agriculture
- Reintroduce Youth in Agriculture programme
- Create alternative pathways to prevent youth crime
- Offer paths to profitable, dignified farm work
- Promote beekeeping skills development
- Develop hydroponics agriculture for schools and backyard farming
Breaking Negative Perceptions
- "Farming Isn't Punishment; It's Prosperity!"
- Promote high-tech, profitable, climate-smart farming
- Attract the next generation to agriculture
- Tap into CIDA and other international funding sources
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