 Young farmers from the Roseau Valley plugged the opportunity to exhibit their business during a youth farmer's market held over the weekend on the Roseau Plainfield. Minister responsible for youth development and sports Hon. Kenson Kazimir visited the market and expressed his delight with the initiative. I'm very happy that the Taiwanese ambassador is here, showing that Taiwan is really committed to ensuring food security in our nation. Coming under the heels of COVID-19 food security is really a big initiative for us as a government and we continue to encourage our young people to get involved in agriculture and so having farmers market in communities such as Roseau will really get young people to come around and see the benefit of being involved in agriculture. It's a very good event here today. I'm looking forward to many more of them. There was one in Rupemeta a few weeks ago and we're hoping that all communities can really embrace agriculture alternative forms of agriculture in terms of poultry, in terms of cattle and we're seeing all of this displayed here today. I'm very proud of this initiative. Well, I'm a farmer. I mean all of these things associated with farming site preparation to plant the crops. So we have mahogany, we have white cedar, all these things have been taken out from the land and I've been using these things to make picture frames, mirrors, pencil cases, just you name it, craft, just call it craft. So in the mix we have white cedar which is very strong. You don't really need preservatives for these and you know about mahogany, all these expensive doors, they are made with mahogany so you know that when you have a piece of mahogany it's very pricey. There is one we established about almost 10 years ago and it is still ongoing. The reason for this, we have a mantra in the ministry, eat fresh and it's just best. And this is something that we want solutions to know because we can reduce the best food and also to lower our food import bill. We have an initiative in the ministry, we just call it a seven crop project and those crops were designed to ensure that farmers grow these crops to even lower our food import bill which happened about three years ago. In so doing, this was financed by the Taiwanese government and because of its success, we were able to reduce it by five of those crops, 30%. We are now moving to the second phase which is again sponsored by the Taiwanese for another five years. So we are encouraging farmers and solutions to grow what we eat, eat fresh and it's just best because our food security is key. Our minister, the chief manager is food and nutrition security which is very, very important solution. So we welcome this initiative and we welcome more of those farmers market around the island. The Rosa Valley Farmers Market was an initiative by youth worker for Castry South and Castry South East, Neza and Hutchinson in collaboration with the Taiwanese technical mission. From the ministry of development and sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.