 The steadily growing population of tourists and visitors to our islands during the past five to ten years has also increased the demand for fresh produce, in particular fruits and vegetables. This demand has also brought about some challenges, as farmers try to increase their use of inorganic pesticides and fertilizers to try and maintain or manage the level of piss in their crops. At the same time, to try and maintain the level of nutrition in the soil in order to maintain a high yield. Over the last four to five years, through our training programs to make farmers more aware of the many benefits of organic pesticides we have seen a 20% or even more in some cases of the use of organically based pesticides by our farmers. We continue to see this positive trend where more and more farmers are using organic and biological based pesticides. The Ministry also promotes the use of other methods of managing piss in crops including adjusting on spacing, using machinery to manage weed problems and also how we were possible where farmers are able to utilize these means which are non-chemical. The Ministry together with the financial and technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of FAO was successful in implementing a project that enhanced crop production while at the same time improving soil resources management for sustainable livelihood. The project largely focused on improving soil resources management through increased use of organic matter, use of cover crops and minimizing soil tillage. Farmers were trained on the importance of improving soil health in order to improve the tolerance or in order to increase the tolerance of their crops to pests and diseases. Currently the Ministry is working on a project with FAO and also the Secretary of the Pacific Community, an originally based organization that works together not only with FAO but with other donor partners and other implementing partners on many agriculture projects. The current project will help us look into our legislation and how we can improve our legislation to try and address the current issues in particular around the invitation and use of pesticides especially moving towards looking at safer alternatives or alternatives based around organic pesticides and biologically based pesticides.