Sto­ry by SHAS­TRI BOODAN

To­ba­go’s Di­vi­sion of Food Pro­duc­tion, Forestry and Fish­eries un­der the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, gave away some 9,000 seedlings to­day, to To­bag­o­ni­ans in­ter­est­ed in get­ting in­to agri­cul­ture.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Man­ag­er of the Louis D'Or Nurs­ery at Rox­bor­ough, Clay­ton Matthews, not­ed that more To­bag­o­ni­ans are grav­i­tat­ing to­wards agri­cul­ture since the on­set of COVID-19 re­stric­tions on the is­land.

To­day, the nurs­ery gave away 9,000 seedlings to per­sons in­ter­est­ed in cul­ti­va­tion, and Matthew said this was the sec­ond phase of give­aways from the Di­vi­sion.

"We are try­ing to fo­cus on im­prov­ing our food se­cu­ri­ty by dis­trib­ut­ing veg­etable crop seedlings to the pub­lic in To­ba­go."

He said the first phase of dis­tri­b­u­tion took place on Mon­day June 8th, and at­tract­ed 300 per­sons to Scar­bor­ough, where 9,000 seedlings al­so were dis­trib­uted.