The Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture (FFA) at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, in­vites the pub­lic to its Sus­tain­able Seeds of Sur­vival (SOS) Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Earth Day this year. The event is geared to­wards rais­ing aware­ness about seed preser­va­tion and food se­cu­ri­ty in the coun­try.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the UWI:

The Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at the St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is ex­tend­ing an open in­vi­ta­tion to the na­tion to par­tic­i­pate in its first Sus­tain­able Seeds of Sur­vival (SOS) Fair on Earth Day 2022, April 22nd.

From 9:00 a.m. un­til 1:00 p.m., the pub­lic can vis­it its Uni­ver­si­ty Field Sta­tion in Mount Hope and learn more about the im­por­tance of seed sav­ing for food and seed se­cu­ri­ty in Caribbean Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS). Com­mer­cial veg­etable pro­duc­ers as well as back­yard gar­den­ers, seed savers and seed sup­pli­ers will be present to help ini­ti­ate a move­ment for seed sav­ing and seed food en­vi­ron­men­tal ed­u­ca­tion and aware­ness.

Dr Wendy Ann Isaac, Se­nior Lec­tur­er, shared that the SOS Fair will in­tro­duce the pub­lic to the Fac­ul­ty’s re­cent­ly com­plet­ed Seed Fa­cil­i­ty for seed test­ing and seed bank­ing ac­tiv­i­ties and show­case var­i­ous di­ag­nos­tic ser­vices of­fered by the De­part­ment of Food Pro­duc­tion in seed test­ing and oth­er re­lat­ed ser­vices, such as soil test­ing and plant dis­ease iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. While Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture, Dr. Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, will speak on the theme “SOS – Re­claim our Seeds”.

As part of the day’s ac­tiv­i­ties, there will be seed ex­changes, seed sales and tours of the Uni­ver­si­ty Field Sta­tion.  For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, Mr. Earl Med­ford at 753-3220; Ms. Shon­elle Ali at 685-6632 or Mr. Rakesh Bhukal at 492-9187.