{"id":1012,"date":"2010-08-19T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2010-08-19T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:56:05","slug":"agriculture-and-marine-resources-outlines-5-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/agriculture-and-marine-resources-outlines-5-year-plan","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture and Marine Resources Outlines 5-Year Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1014 \" title=\"plan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/plan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/plan.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/plan-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/plan-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources unveiled its five-year plan on Wednesday. L-R (front row) senior veterinary officer Dr Godfrey Springer, director of agriculture Simeon Pinder, permanent secretary Cresswell Sturrup, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources S Lawrence \u2018Larry&#39; Cartwright holding a copy of the plan, under secretary Philip Miller, and director of marine resources Michael Braynen. (BIS photo\/Letisha Henderson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources has unveiled its five-year development plans.<\/p>\n<p>They outline the national strategies which will guide the Ministry&#8217;s policies and programmes through 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The overarching goal of both sectors is to develop a sustainable food system that contributes to food security and improves the livelihood of producers,&#8221; said Minister Lawrence S \u2018Larry; Cartwright on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The plans include a review of the domestic and international constraints facing the agriculture and marine sectors and an assessment of the infrastructure, institutional and technological capacities required to improve, develop and regulate them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cartwright said the plans have incorporated several cross-cutting themes including:<\/p>\n<p>managing environmental concerns and addressing a range of issues such as stock assessments, and invasive species;<\/p>\n<p>integrating plant, animal health, and food safety matters into programmes; mitigating the impact of natural disasters on production and natural resources; incorporating obligations and opportunities in trade agreements into programmes; and, improving the regulatory and legislative framework for agriculture and marine resources.<\/p>\n<p>The strategic plan for agriculture will focus on vegetables, root crops and herbs; tree crops; ornamental horticulture; livestock; agro-processing; and land and water management.<\/p>\n<p>A number of strategies will be used to increase production and productivity, said Minister Cartwright.<\/p>\n<p>For the marine resources sector, strategic actions will target maintaining access to international markets, strengthening the collection of data, increasing human and financial resources, and reducing illegal fishing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These strategies provide a solid foundation upon which the sustainable growth and development of the agriculture and fisheries sectors can be based,&#8221; said Mr Cartwright, the MP for Long Island and the Ragged Islands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ministry will continue to engage the fishing, farming and agro-processing communities as well as the public in the formulation, design and implementation of legislation, policies and programmes which will ensure the plan&#8217;s effective implementation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources has unveiled its five-year development plan outlining national strategies to guide policies and programmes through 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,40,79],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-agriculture","tag-government","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}