Chi­na is ea­ger to share its agri­cul­tur­al strate­gies with Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As­sis­tant Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs of Chi­na Hua Chun­y­ing has said the coun­try would be will­ing to in­tro­duce Jun­cao tech­nol­o­gy to this coun­try.

Jun­cao is a hy­brid grass that is an im­por­tant mul­ti-func­tion­al agri­cul­tur­al re­source as its leaves, stems and roots can be used for dif­fer­ent kinds of eco­log­i­cal man­age­ment in­clud­ing soil ero­sion con­trol and de­ser­ti­fi­ca­tion pre­ven­tion.

“We would be very glad to work with Trinidad and To­ba­go  and maybe some oth­er Caribbean coun­tries to ad­vance Jun­cao cor­po­ra­tion and pro­mote agri­cul­ture tech­nol­o­gy co­op­er­a­tion in this re­gion. Such we think of or­gan­is­ing tech­no­log­i­cal train­ing, train­ing lo­cal ex­perts and es­tab­lish­ing tech­nol­o­gy bases and cen­tres,” said Chun­y­ing at the Na­tion­al Li­brary in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s has en­joyed a sig­nif­i­cant trade and de­vel­op­ment re­la­tion­ship with Chi­na in re­cent years, par­tic­u­lar­ly since it signed on to the Belt and Road Ini­tia­tive in 2018. The agree­ment has led to sig­nif­i­cant Chi­nese in­vest­ment and con­struc­tion of in­fra­struc­ture backed by fi­nanc­ing of­fered by the gov­ern­ment of Chi­na.

In Feb­ru­ary, Chi­nese Sum­mit (TT) Lug­gage Co be­came the first ten­ant at eTecK’s Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, while oth­er Chi­nese com­pa­nies are ex­pect­ed to fol­low.

Min­is­ter Chun­y­ing con­firmed the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment was ea­ger to fu­el de­vel­op­ment in coun­tries like Trinidad and To­ba­go.

“The glob­al de­vel­op­ment ini­tia­tive Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping has put for­ward is pre­cise­ly to achiev­ing this goal by pro­mot­ing co­op­er­a­tion in ar­eas such as pover­ty re­duc­tion, food se­cu­ri­ty, pan­dem­ic re­sponse, de­vel­op­ment fi­nanc­ing, cli­mate change, in­dus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the dig­i­tal era con­nec­tiv­i­ty,” she said, “Chi­na is ready to work with Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean coun­tries to im­ple­ment the GDI and make full use of all the funds avail­able to achieve com­mon de­vel­op­ment and pros­per­i­ty. The suc­cess sto­ry of Chi­nese mod­erni­sa­tion can be an in­spi­ra­tion for fel­low de­vel­op­ing coun­tries and I be­lieve if Chi­na can suc­ceed you can suc­ceed.”