The Virgin Islands could soon be growing more of what it eats, as government officials and farmers consider white potato production as a way to cut imports and strengthen food security.
The Premier’s Office, through the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, is moving to develop a sustainable white potato programme following a regional capacity-building seminar in Dominica that exposed VI farmers to modern cultivation and marketing techniques.
The Dec. 1-3 workshop, organised by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, came as new data underscored the scale of the regional dependence on imports, according to the government.
