The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), one of our partners shared drought bulletin and Caribbean climate outlook CARICOF with us. These publications which are shared throughout the region are very useful in our agriculture production and management. We urge the governments and donors to continue to support this important service for our region. Caribbean […]
Drought bulletin and Caribbean climate outlook Read More »
The Australian High Commission Direct Aid Program based in Trinidad and Tobago provided small grants for the development of projects to help fewer privilege communities throughout the Caribbean to improve the quality of life. ECTAD marketing cluster in Greggs benefited from such a support and received marketing supplies and types of equipment which helped improve
Australia in the Caribbean Read More »
CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CARDI) PROPOSED fertilizer recommendations for select crops. (See attached summary. Note that in some cases we may substitute for what is commercially available) A ROUND TABLE WITH FARMERSLEADERS CARDI MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND OTHER TECHNICAL AGENCIES TO GET FARMERS INPUT TO FINALIZE THIS PROCESS IS PLANNED FOR EARLY 2019. [pdf-embedder url=”https://ectadcaribbean.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Fertilizer-regime-ECTAD.pdf”
CARDI LOCAL OFFICE IN SVG ADVICE ON BEST FERTILIZER MIXES FOR ROOT CROPS Read More »
Our small farmers are on the frontline of climate change with very little resources to buffer climate change effects. Drastic variation in weather patterns, shorten the length of growing season, new emerging pest and diseases among other factor pose serious problems for our small farmers. Our farmers are finding ways of coping through innovative production
FARMERS ADOPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE Read More »
We strives to remove our farmer’s organisations dependency on donor agencies and government. Farmers bring to the table, lands and skills and it is important that we invest what the farmers bring to ensure sustainable wealth for them, we must ensure that farmers organisation have a bigger share of the value chain by ensuring that
ECTAD CARIBBEAN SMALL FARMERS ORGANISATIONS SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY Read More »
Our female-led marketing cluster, headed by Vanessa Joseph and her team came in for high praises from our overseas buyers for quality consistency over the past several months of increased shipments to Europe. The team which is comprised of young and vibrant women and men took a very positive approach in dialoguing with our farmers
ECTAD SMALL FARMERS MARKETING CLUSTER GETS GREAT REVIEW FROM BUYERS IN EUROPE Read More »
ECTAD Caribbean recently launched a forum for sharing. Sharing of knowledge, information, good practices, innovation and appropriate technology is at the core of ECTAD Caribbean partnership operation, we believe in exchanging information and knowledge to boost the capacity, the strength of our small farmers organisation, whatever information we gather from our brothers and sisters abroad,
ECTAD CARIBBEAN FORUM FOR SHARING Read More »
We have seen a 40% increase in sales by our small farmers for 2018. In the early stages of our marketing program, a mixture of crops such as Dasheen, Yams, Eddoes, Sweet potatoes, Plantains, Bananas, Tannia, Passion fruit etc. was sold to local and regional markets. Over 150,000 pounds of these products were marketed through
Sustainable Profitable Market for ECTAD Small Farmers/ Farm Families Read More »
2018 was a year of many challenges for ECTAD Caribbean which strengthens our resolve to create sustainable profitable incomes for small farm families. We have taken challenges and turned them into opportunities, we have expanded our marketing of core crops, we have expanded our volunteer partnership network worldwide, we created our forum platform for sharing
Real leadership and overcoming challenges in 2018 Read More »
Follow these 3 steps to join our forum conversations. Visit the forum https://caribbeanfarmers.net/ 1) Click Register on the left side of the page 2) Fill out the registration form 3) Confirm your email address Forum Features: Create Forum discussions Create question and answer posts Engage with other forum members Comment on current discussions Our forum
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