 The conference on Climate Smart Agriculture, Building Sustainability and Resilience in Agriculture sought to bring about interactive discussions on various aspects of agriculture crop production in an era where the regional agriculture industry struggles to thrive amidst a myriad of climate related variabilities such as prolonged drought, damaging hurricanes and tropical storms, and extensive flooding. The event, organized by the Taiwan ICDF through the Global Corporation and Training Framework, a facility established to train development practitioners in 2015, saw submissions by the Foreign Agriculture Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Inter-American Institute on Cooperation in Agriculture, IECA, and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. It also explored topics such as utilizing weather data and innovative site-specific techniques to step up agriculture production and resilience, and systemizing climate action in Caribbean agriculture. Taiwanese ambassador to St. Lucia, his Excellency Peter Shen, in explaining how important the activity is to St. Lucia, says discussions like these, involving practitioners from different sectors to collectively address climate impact issues on the sector, will be a key feature in implementing agriculture projects and programs in the future. I seem to take all the impact of climate change as a continued process and I see a long-term effort. So all the projects or all the cooperation that we're dealing with, Ministry of Agriculture, all have this component. For example, in PPIP we have the irrigation system. We introduced the Taiwanese variant of banana. So that's all part of the measures that we're dealing with, the impact, and also including the hoop greenhouse of our seven crops project. So all of that are all included in the way that we how to how we tackle this impact of climate change. In St. Lucia, the Banana Productivity Improvement Project, the PPIP, and the Seven Crops Project are examples of interventions on the ground in which climate-smart agriculture concepts are readily incorporated. Project Coordinator of the Seven Crops Project, Adlyn Mudevik says her project actions are uniquely tailored to assist farmers in sustaining their overall output. We have introduced the hoop greenhouses, we have introduced weather stations, we have introduced simple basic technology such as irrigation and we plan to continue mitigating against climate change. As you know right now, we are in the rainy season and we have more dry season weather out there. So we understand that drought is a serious issue, that flooding is a serious issue, and that these are direct impacts of climate change, sorry, on our system. So we do continue to explore the appropriate technologies and we continue to assist the farmers in accessing capacity building in terms of their training and also introducing them to new technology where they could mitigate against the climate change. The Agriculture Ministry through collaborative efforts with agriculture development partners have made commitments towards the full adoption of climate-smart interventions for the sector and continued discourse on what will work best for the industry's future. From the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Amanda Fee-Clarke reporting.