NASSAU, Bahamas — Cabinet minister has underscored the need for “data” to drive government agricultural policy, with stakeholder consultation “as often as possible” critical to this effort, The Tribune reported October 1.
Michael Pintard, minister of agriculture and marine resources, told Tribune Business that he “welcomed” a recent Inter-American Development Bank analysis of this nation’s agriculture and fisheries sector and would evaluate its findings.
The newly-published IDB analysis of Bahamian agricultural and fisheries policy called on the Government to reduce the role it plays in a sector that generates just 1.6 percent of annual GDP, and instead “incentivise” the private sector to fill the void. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/oct/01/agriculture-minister-argues-policy-must-be-data/
