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		<title>Baron Foods Gears Up for Multimillion Dollar Expansion in Vieux Fort!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since its nascence in 1991, Baron Foods St. Lucia has positioned itself as a leading agro-processor and garnered much international acclaim. Now the company is reaffirming its commitment to local investment, employment creation, and economic stimulation through a multimillion dollar expansion to its Vieux-Fort operation. The manufacturing sector has proven to stimulate the economy organically [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agriculture Department issues statement on Soufriere Sea Turtle incident</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Thursday June 24, 2021, the Department of Fisheries was alerted by the Soufriere Police Station to the interception of a Minibus carrying a live sea turtle. The Department confirmed that the animal was an adult hawksbill sea turtle and in coordination with the Soufriere Marine Management Association Inc., the sea turtle was successfully returned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Urgent Notice: &#8220;The use of Pesticides containing the active ingredients Chlorpyrifos, Chlorpyrifos Methyl, and Imazalil is suspended until further notice.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Agriculture, urgently informs the general public and all stakeholders that the use of Pesticides containing the active ingredients Chlorpyrifos, Chlorpyrifos Methyl, and Imazalil is suspended until further notice. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Will It Take To Improve Our Relationship With Agriculture?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Celeste Boyd-Franklin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the 10-month period since the initial lockdown, the value and fate of the agricultural sector has seemingly returned to consciousness. But then again, during every economic crisis there is heightened talk about the importance of agriculture. Of course, I need not state that there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ANOTHER ASPECT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Josie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Someone whose opinion I appreciate recently convinced me that I should take a fresh look at a national school feeding programme with the awareness of its potential to organise specific farmers and fishermen, unemployed youth, professional chefs and even delinquent fathers. The idea is that these people would be organised by the Ministry of Education with other departments in government to produce vegetables, food crops, eggs, milk and fish in a project to commence possibly as early as 2020.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Friday, June 7 is the first World Food Safety Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The UN General Assembly declared June 7, 2019 as the first World Food Safety Day, which is a partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). With raising public awareness as one of its main objectives, World Food Safety Day provokes us to reflect our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Moroccan Government optimistic about Soil Fertility-Mapping Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dean Nestor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 2015, Saint Lucia and five other Eastern Caribbean islands began the four-year process of conducting a soil fertility-mapping project, in unison with the Kingdom of Morocco and the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation. However, the implementation of this project hit a bit of a snag and so the Saint Lucian government requested a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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