 The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Corporatives Honourable Ezekiel Joseph, along with other ministry leaders, convened a meeting recently with CMOS Farmers from the community of Opical Viewfort to discuss on the successes of the CMOS sub-sector to date, and to chat the way forward for the industry amidst the challenges of 2020. In providing insights on the sector, Predya Larsonie continues to be flagged as the leading concern among CMOS Farmers. In his response to addressing this ongoing issue, Honourable Ezekiel Joseph highlighted the current legislation already in place for Predya Larsonie, but placing even more emphasis on the importance of regulating CMOS cultivation and harvesting procedures to ensure the quality of the final CMOS product is not compromised. My understanding based on your concerns and experiences negatively that is, is legislation to see how you can curb the situation with persons who are not bonifying CMOS Farmers in the area harvesting your CMOS. Now if that is correct, it's very interesting because I don't see the need for further legislation and I'm going to explain why. We have legislation already in place. We have the Predya Larsonie Group already in place functioning. Just last week we had our heads meeting, right? And it's not a matter of having legislation, it's a matter of giving support to the entity that is going to supervise and monitor the legislation that you put in place. Most of the Opikor CMOS Farmers Association, Co-in Samuel, says the association will continue to give the farmers full support to ensure that CMOS Farmers, the St. Lucia National Trust and fishermen operate harmoniously. So far we have covered a conflict with CMOS Farmers. The conflict we have is those non-CMOS Farmers who come in and collect the CMOS. So that we are working on and we have a clear plan as to how we work with that with National Trust because we know they use them for kayaking and they have told us exactly where they need space for this to happen. We have move sticks, we have asked farmers to take out the stick completely and try to shift it. So cut on your farm if you have to a little bit to allow both National Trust, the fishermen and ourselves to coexist at servants there without conflict. The Opikor CMOS Farmers Association currently consists of approximately 120 farmers. From the Information Unit of the Department of Agriculture, I am Anisia Antoine reporting.