12 November 2016 - Business View Caribbean
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IICA Holds Workshop on Food Labeling
for Agro-Processors in St. Kitts-Nevis
Small-scale agro-processors in St. Kitts and Nevis
are now better positioned, as business proprietors,
to contribute to sustainable agriculture development
thanks to the timely intervention by the Inter-Amer-
ican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA),
which conducted a one-and-a-half-day workshop on
food labeling.
Assistant Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agri-
culture, Natasha Daniel, who opened the workshop
held in Basseterre on Thursday, October 27, com-
mented that the workshop had come on the heels
of a recently held marketing workshop for agro-
processors. “Today we move to another level of the
marketing chain, labeling, where processors can
better position themselves as business proprietors,
contribute to sustainable agricultural development,
assist in the reduction of poverty and malnutrition,
and reduce food wastage through agro-processing,”
Daniel said.
The workshop, which was organized by Augustine
Merchant, IICA representative for the St. Kitts and
Nevis delegation, was facilitated on the first day by
