PM Rowley inaugurates Nutrimix Limited Next Generation Hatchery

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been working towards improving food security export capabilities in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Prime Minister issued the statement during the official opening for the Nutrimix Limited Next Generation Hatchery on Monday, 14th February 2022.

While addressing, Dr Rowley the new state-of-the-art hatchery will hold significance and add to the country’s competency in the agriculture sector. He added that this would build the chicken business in a way that we have never been before.

“We are securing our food supply,” stated Prime Minister.

PM Dr Rowley further acknowledged and said that when it comes to exporting to the neighbouring islands, the production companies have been facing several “archaic and antiquated laws”.

He further mentioned that “In the very near future, you will see some dramatic, unusual changes with respect to the agricultural sector, its management and its governance in Trinidad and Tobago.”

Prime Minister Rowley further mentioned that to deal with a pandemic like COVID-19, “it is important to be prepared foundation wise that wherever we are called upon to respond that we do have some basic infrastructure in the country that can cause us to respond satisfactorily if and when we are called upon to respond.”

The Prime Minister further congratulated the Director of the Nutrimix Group of Companies, Ronnie Mohammed and his team for carrying out the innovation set by the late founder of Nutrimix, Shaheed Mohammed.

The event attendees were the Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon, Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Clarence Rambharat and Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries Avinash Singh.

Reportedly, in August 2018, Dr Rowley turned the sod for the hatchery construction on five acres of land, which was once part of the Brechin Castle Estate in Couva. According to the PM, this would allow the expansion of the poultry industry from the hatching of eggs to chicks.