From left: Ian Walcott, Managing Director, Nutrien Trinidad and Mark Loquan, President, NGC.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad–“The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) and Nutrien are happy to announce their intention to collaborate for the aim of exploring alternatives with the aim of enhancing our nation’s meals and diet safety,” in response to a press launch from the NGC. It provides, “This partnership is underpinned by the popularity that enhancing native meals manufacturing and consumption can play an integral function in Trinidad and Tobago’s meals safety, whereas concurrently enhancing diet, diets and total well being and wellness.”
The launch states that each corporations will work carefully with stakeholders alongside the native meals worth chain to establish alternatives to enhance meals and diet safety within the following 5 essential areas:
* Praedial larceny: to enhance detection and intervention by means of the deployment of shared distant sensing applied sciences resembling closed-circuit cameras, sensors and unmanned aerial autos (UAVs);
* Precision agriculture: to introduce, check and deploy precision agriculture strategies by means of UAVs and satellite tv for pc know-how. This mannequin will intention to enhance plant health-monitoring effectivity and sustainability in the usage of agricultural inputs;
* Food waste: to establish alternatives to scale back meals waste. This will help the nation’s efforts to scale back carbon emissions within the battle in opposition to local weather change and assist probably the most susceptible to satisfy their every day dietary wants;
* Community climate-smart agriculture: promote meals manufacturing on the group degree utilizing climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA is an built-in method to managing crops, livestock, forests and fisheries that addresses the interlinked challenges of meals safety and accelerating local weather change; and
* Food, well being, and dietary consciousness: construct public consciousness concerning the well being advantages of boosting the manufacturing and consumption of contemporary, domestically produced meals, particularly these with a excessive plant-based content material.
The speedy subsequent steps for this Food and Nutrition Security Alliance would be the engagement with key companions alongside the meals worth chain to develop plans for these 5 focal areas. Over the subsequent two years, precedence areas can be recognized and applicable motion plans developed.
“NGC and Nutrien additionally recognise that world meals safety is being critically impacted by local weather change. Therefore, the alliance seeks to utilise the experience of all stakeholders concerned, to mitigate the impacts of local weather change on meals safety, whereas positively impacting sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago,” the discharge states.
“Our widespread aspiration is to successfully improve the agricultural sector in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and convey tangible and sustainable profit to our folks, working collectively to develop our world from the bottom up,” it concludes.
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