The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of Food Se­cu­ri­ty, Nat­ur­al Re­sources, the En­vi­ron­ment, and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to UTT, the agree­ment aims to strength­en re­search and ed­u­ca­tion-based ini­tia­tives that sup­port lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

The THA’s Di­vi­sion of Food Se­cu­ri­ty, Nat­ur­al Re­sources, the En­vi­ron­ment, and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment over­sees To­ba­go’s agro-based prod­ucts, as well as ef­forts to im­prove agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion on the is­land. UTT said its Bio­sciences, Agri­cul­ture, and Food Tech­nol­o­gy pro­grammes will pro­vide tech­ni­cal sup­port to agri­cul­ture prac­ti­tion­ers and con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of food and agri­cul­tur­al en­tre­pre­neurs.

UTT Chair­man, Pro­fes­sor Clé­ment Im­bert, O.R.T.T., said the part­ner­ship would help build To­ba­go’s agri­cul­tur­al re­silience, while Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Chavez Au­gus­tine not­ed that train­ing To­ba­go-based stu­dents at MIC-IT’s To­ba­go Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre would re­duce the need to trav­el to Trinidad for stud­ies.