 The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Rural Development, Honourable Alfred Prosper, is optimistic about the future of St. Lucia's life successor. This comes on the heels of a recent visit by the Minister to the Voli Agricultural Station. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to visit Voli, and to really get an understanding, familiarize myself as the new Minister in terms of what's happening. Based on what I saw, I can tell that the livestock farmers, there are lots of good things in place for them, because it's all about creating a commercial livestock enterprise in St. Lucia. We know that we are importing high quantities of meat, especially pork and chicken in some cases. And it is my view that the livestock station at Voli will help tremendously in helping St. Lucia reduce on imports such as meat and especially pork and so on. 100 acres of land at Voli is allocated to the production of livestock such as piglets that will be made available for purchase by farmers. The farmers will then get to rent and sell the livestock to St. Lucia's meat processing facility. Honourable Prosper addressing concerns about the meat processing facility says the Ministry of Agriculture is actively working on the facilities relocation. The Ministry did identify a new area in Mabio Valley where the meat processing facility will be located. I think this process processing facility, if it is constructed, it will tie in well with the whole wallet, livestock production and the meat processing facility. That is my view now as the new Minister that it would be best if the meat processing facility would be located within the wallet site. The Agriculture Minister is confident St. Lucia will see a growing livestock industry in the coming years.