 The Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the Taiwan Technical Mission under the Seven Crops Project have organised several initiatives all get towards reducing St Lucia's food import bill. The most recent initiative being a training session for agriculture extension officers on a newly introduced agricultural technology, Hoop Greenhouses. Project coordinator of the Seven Crops Project, Adli Nudovic, noted that the newly introduced technology will be of great benefit to St Lucia farmers. We did one year of trials with the Hoop Greenhouses, that's what we're talking about, what we're seeing here today and we observed that it was very encouraging. The quality and the quantity of the fruit was way better under the Hoop Greenhouses throughout. So we tried it in all the regions throughout the island in several different micro climates and out of that we realised that we did have some issues like anything is a new technology to our environment. So that is what you call adoption. So we adopted the technology wholesale as it was in Taiwan and after that first year of trial we realised that we have to tweak it a bit. So today we are here to show the extension officers the necessary adjustment that we have seen fit. Production specialist of the Taiwan Technical Mission, Eric Chen, explained that the changes made will boost productivity of the Hoop Greenhouses as they are tailored to the climate of St Lucia. According to the research last year since we had the whole year round trial last year from the dry season to the rainy season we found that the growth rate in terms of the growth rate and the pest control and the sweeteners and the quality of the fruits is exceeded in the open field. So we import this technology to the farmers easily produced fruits especially candelab in the rainy season. Ambassador of the Republic of China Taiwan to St Lucia, his Excellency Peter Shen, expressed his satisfaction with the progress of the Seven Clubs project. Yeah I'm so glad that I came today and see so many extension officers come to learn how to adjust the technology we import before. It's a Hoop greenhouse and I think what we will try to do is to cooperate with the Agriculture Ministry to promote food and nutrition security in St Lucia and this technology will help a lot for St Lucia especially when it comes to climate change. This Hoop greenhouse will also become a very good measure to enhance the resilience of the climate change. A cohort of individuals will be trained in the installation of the Hoop greenhouses. The prices of the Hoop greenhouses are expected to start at $350. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture I am Anisia Antoine reporting.