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BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman
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Coconut Farmers Association, Ghana (COFAG), has appealed to the government to pay more attention to the sector to make coconut a major export earner for the country.
The association said there was the need for the government to show commitment by building the capacity of farmers in coconut cultivation and also provide them with organic fertilisers and adequate hybrid coconut seedlings annually to boost production.
According to the association, such measures would help coconut exports from the country to gain competitive advantage on the international market to rake in more foreign exchange.
Emmanuel Charles Cadet
March 8, 2021
Early Years
Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Mindoo Philip Park) was named after him.
Charles attended the foremost Roman Catholic School on the island, St. Aloysius Boys Primary on Brazil Street, Castries. He was under the tutelage of the renowned, strict disciplinarian Headmaster, Mr. Henry Belizaire, who was recognized as one of the few local British Caribbean educators to write a booklet on Geographical Terms. Charles showed promise academically at an early age, and so was admitted to the only secondary school on the island for boys,
Farmers protest seeking DPC for paddy
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Members of various farmers associations staged a protest in front of the office of Assistant Director of Agriculture here pressing for a charter of demands, including immediate opening of direct purchase centres for paddy in Virudhunagar district.
The protest was led by Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam, N.A. Ramachandra Raja, the protesters said that though harvesting of paddy that was delayed due to rain has started, the Government has not opened the DPCs.
“While the Government has promised to procure 71 kg of paddy for a minimum support price of ₹ 1,300, the traders were willing to pay only ₹ 1,100. Even that would not be paid immediately,” Mr. Ramachandra Raja said.
TTMA pushing to increase exports
Thursday 10 December 2020
TTMA president Franka Costelloe (centre) with awardees (from left) Pivot, Best Adaption of the New Normal won by Nestle Trinidad and Tobago Ltd and received by marketing head of Anglo Dutch Caribbean Patricio Torres, Manufacturer of the Year award in the small category won by RHS Marketing and received by managing director Ravi Sankar, Lifetime Achievement Award winner Amjad Ali, Innovator of the Year won by CGA Ltd and received by COO Gabrielle Agostini, Green Manufacturer of the Year won by Trinidad Tissues and received by country manager Jean Marcos Bruni, Manufacturer of the Year in the large category Angostura Holdings Ltd collected by chairman Terrence Bharath, and New Market Entrant, Export of the Year, won by SM Jaleel and received by vice president of export and sales Clint Villafana at the Hyatt Port of Spain Ballroom. - AYANNA KINSALE