A few weeks ago, in this space, and not for the first time, I made a case for stimulating the production of local foods as a means of reducing our dependence on foreign foods and, in particular, to ...

One day I hope to write Trinidad is truly independent from the world, we grow all of our own foodtotally food secure and import little. It will come, but now as a nation it is our cuisine recognised ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Agriculture officials say a variety of the dasheen plant has proven to be resistance to drought, and soil with high salinity and could be beneficial to the Caribbean where ...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Is dasheen the new cassava? Not quite, but sentiments associated with the promotion of cassava for the local market a few years ago were recently revived at a dasheen ...