Update: 10:44AM TEN business houses retailing irrigation and farming equipment, particularly in the cane belt areas will participate in an Irrigation Trade Show tomorrow.
The show, an initiative of the Pacific Community’s Improvement of Key Services to Agriculture (IKSA) Project, and funded by the European Union, aims to develop new opportunities in horticultural and sugar markets through research, and the provision of assistance to farmers to venture into horticultural crops through improved access to agricultural inputs as well as technical assistance on production and marketing.
The show is being held in conjunction with the Ba Riverside Carnival to get maximum participation from the public, including school students.
The highlights will be half-hourly demonstrations by exhibitors, such as drip irrigation and sprinkler systems, as well as water pumps and tanks, delivery and suction pipes, generators, solar panels, nursery materials, and farming machinery/equipment.
IKSA is managed through SPC’s Land Resources Division which, strives to improve food and nutritional security, Integrated and sustainable agricultural and forestry resource management and development, and improved biosecurity and increased trade in agriculture and forestry products.
