Well, it's everybody Jason here for Jasper's case breaks calm. We just sold out the Jasper's 11 box. Hell, Mary Football mixer random teams and again, we're giving away a Mahomes pink rated rookie 9-5 So here you go guys so the way that works is first guys everybody gets around team in the NFL all-card ship at the end Of the break will take all 32 customer names randomize them and the top name gets them a homes They see right there And it is right here Very nice BGS 9-5 So again, the boxes included in here is a box of 2020 honors down to two blaster boxes of Chronicles football And here we go guys. Here's the dice. Well, there's a customer name. So from Sean to Mike Got those spots straight up and then of course optic one is there from optic two there Optic three those customers gone in for a fraction of the price And here's the list of customers and teams. Let's roll it randomize customer names and teams three times see what you guys get one and a two three times one two three Sean down to Michael three times one two three Vegas Raiders down to Los Angeles Rams All right, so Sean you have the Vegas Raiders Adam with the Titans Sean Peterson with the Washington football team Roy with the Chiefs Robert Flores, you have the Cardinals Daniel the Colton Bills Donnie the Falcons Dane with the Ravens Eric with the Lions Daniel Katz with the Dolphins William with the Bucks Daniel with the Steelers Sean Aldinger with the Saints Sean allure with the Giants Ryan H with the Jets Robert Flores You have the Cowboys Joshua with the Packers Matt Arnold with the Texans John with the Panthers Aaron with the Vikings Steve with the Jaguars Donnie the 49ers Mike you have the Chicago Bears Brian Crawford the Chargers Matt with the Seahawks Jonathan more with the Browns Chad with my Eagles Alan with the Bengals Simon with the Patriots and Michael G with the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Rams So again if anybody wants to trade I'll give you guys a quick minute what I'm gonna start doing guys is I'm actually gonna start ribbing the blasters first or actually the multi-packed cello In the meantime so that way we can kind of get a little head start while you guys try to trade And again, if I don't see any trade activity, I'll probably just close it Within the minute So let me turn on nick cam All right, I'll just wait them. All right then guys, I'm not seeing no trade activity So let's close the trade window then Let's go with the multi-packed cello first Let's rip open the Very wide and blues really quick My Bobby Moon method to try to speak And I hope they start playing better, man For the fans for the true to try lying fans out there I'm man. I don't know what I'd do to fouls the Falcons fan knowing that I easily could have won that Well, not easily could have won the Super Bowl. Well, you're up by like 24. I don't know man. That was rough All right, good luck green Joe Thomas Jaylen Hertz base Kerr Cousins green Gandy gold And fireworks Lamar Jackson With Clyde Edwards, Ilaire rookie brady base Isiah Simmons green Rookie Henry rugs and brandon iu. What up g low Derrick brown green cd lamb Tremaine Edmonds Justin Jefferson Jim McMahon Eric Hendricks silver Jerry Judy Hype green josh island jake frown Ronald Jones Rayquan Davis All right, lots of little stagger here and then we'll go red, white and blues Justin Jefferson emerging green very nice Tonya Gibson Charles Woodson to a toko by loa And Jason Humley All right, we're out in blue time. Good luck guys and Tony gandy golden is like a little print line on that one Jaylen Hertz very nice That's a sweet one right there Philadelphia Eagles christian fulham Chase young for the washington football team Noah CJ jason humley Antonio Gibson Clyde Edwards, Ilaire Jerry Judy Afrini Jennings And josh wakelly sweet All right, let's go with the two chronicles blasters now So I believe in a blaster. I think you get one prism black part for box or silver I think I want to say That's after someone not told me Oh, actually, you know what? I think that's an omega the one prism black You got a jordan love clearly Donnerus Justin Herbert luminance Denzel mims jake abeason joey b Justin jefferson got chase claypole And a jaylen Hertz cam acres another herbie rugsie Gibson And a prism black jake abeason All right, let's go to the next blaster You got deandre swift tony gibson Little herbie pink chase young score jordan love herbie jaylen rager And a to a toggle by loa prism black jk darnel mooney And chase young All right, sweet Two optic blasters now So after this guys, it's pretty much just kind of like higher end stuff We'll start off with like xr gold standard and move our way up to like limited And then we'll do the prism team all then we'll do baby panini one And then we'll end off with honors football Oh That was weird we didn't get no pinks in the last blaster I did for the one box breaks, but We got like purple waves Which I was kind of tripping out right now There if it's jerald and grand delphi silverino benjamin And henry rugs For the raiders And then don't miss hollow julian okara Justin jefferson for the vikings that's pretty nice right there and vikings that's erin there's everybody's teams again Just you didn't see Devin assi assi Yeah, that's when we have a little jr t higgins and a jalen regger Out the hollow raider rookie John and the taylor rookie phenoms relic colk matt Brandon are you again dj dallas? I All right, guys, let's keep it rolling xr 2020 I believe everything from here on out is 2020. I think this actually was all 2020 It was great thursday night though rex wasn't it Combined no no hitter It was great then though No, no, no not today All right daryl taylor derek henry seglon barkley jake lutein dach prescott of 249 and extreme Rookies to 49. That's justin herbert aj dillon number two out of five excellence rookie patch autograph two out of five Green Bay Packers, that's going to joshua Jerry judy rookie We got colk matt and tommy stevens We got 22 out of 25 joe nameth and joshua kelly to 99 Illuminous rookie endorsements All right next one guys shuck Trayvon digs to 75 and zack bond to 99 that's for the saints Sates and cowboys We got a colossal gold rush our gold rush relic to 199 Fred taylor Ezekio elliott's motherlode cowboys that's going to uh robber floors darren woodson Cowboys edition 28 out of 75 That's another one for the cowboys on a robber floors Devin duvernay to 199 Ravens that's going to Dayton and a little teaser joshua kelly two out of 49 a little rpa Charge is going to bryan craft All right, we've got four boxes left guys. Good luck Team all prism then we'll go to limit it after this Remember if it's a rookie it's a exclusive red and yellow out of eight if it's a veteran it's out of 49 You got a two a toggle by Lola a rookie base And a derrington evans Hopefully get you some uh some burrow man yannick and gawke and michael strahan Derrick brown is your silver rookie and Mark andrews number to 49 for the ravens. It's your red and yellow exclusive Carolina Panthers right there John with that one All right limited football Base base base numbered 11 out of 25 and lindbadon jr. Relic Dolphins alan cousins bobby wagner Cook and then we'll go have a redemption Oh nelly Wow, justin herbert one two three four color patch On card seven out of 25. We've been getting teased The last couple rpa's have been joshua kelly Wow, what a beautiful patch Excuse me guys. I lost my voice Look at that seven out of 25. What a beautiful herby out of sweet Charge is going to brinecroft Very nice, man And we have a rookie patch autographs variation gold spotlight. We have two rpa's in here car number 176 lindbadon jr And let me double check guys because as you can see lindbadon juniors and his dolphins one here I want to make sure that that's not like raiders by any chance So let's go to the checklist really quick. Let me double check that is Raiders or dolphins He could be in both so Also a variation gold spotlight Which would be out of 25 176 will be lindbadon jr. Miami dolphins edition Dolphins just to show you guys So gold spotlight is out of 25 176 Miami dolphins. So instead of it being in 199. It's out of 25 pretty sweet So a nice one there for the Miami dolphins two rpa's in this box Can't complain about that. We got a marker in here. No markers no more What happens to our markers? So dolphins that is uh daniel. Yeah, limited rpa's are nice Definitely one of the nicer ones for you know product. That's not too pricey for a box. All right two more boxes guys. Good luck Canadian one football whoa joe thysman That is a beautiful patch And that is 10 out of 35 for the washington football team Not expecting to joe thysman Sean peterson with that one though There you go Sweet hit and last box guys is a very pricey box. There can be extreme extreme monitors out of here guys. I pulled a one-of-one Downtown or not downtown sorry Could boom padding my homes one-of-one Wild man customer sold it for like I think 15k. It's pretty crazy So there's some potential big heat hiding in here. I'm gonna cover up both autographs And let me take out the first auto I'll cover it up though Again, I can't see it. I blocked it already. So I don't know who that is And I'll block the other autograph All right, so both of them are blocked It's gotta get the honors pack cam makers And a justin herbert. What a break for the chargers That is 15 out of 15 Very nice and then cam makers for the uh rand's going to michael That is number to 70 sweet All right, let's go with the reproduction card first It is a 12 out of 15 monday night heroes kurtis martin For the jets jets jets going to ryan h So these were originally out of a thousand. It's basically they Buy back the card they stamp it Uh recollection collection right there and then they got 15 of these and they got them to autograph it So there you go And last one guys right here. This should be the rookie We have a jordan love nice color match green 6 out of 35 Green Bay pack is going to joshua There you go, man Very nice hit And both this was a nice mixer guys really really nice So i'll do a quick recap and we've got that kurtis martin. We've got that base Uh, we did get the jote diesman limbatten jr. Rp redemption To a base rookie. We got joshua kelly rpa duvernay Darin, uh, woodson. We got a couple relics here There's another joshua kelly. That was another teaser jote diesman out of five aj dylan A little herby numbered card right there And then we have all of these rookies here some top rookies that'll be top top loaded some burro right there Prism black to a tolua loa and then in our first box. We got some raider rookies Uh, or sorry some prism red white and blues that were top loaded jaylen hurts chase young clida was alert jerry judy 20 gibson riggy phenons jonathan taylor and then of course You know why one of the bigger hits herby at a 15 cracked ice And the rpa 7 out of 25 four color patch Beautiful guys. So there you go. Remember guys, that's not it. Yeah, I still have a chance to get something if you haven't hit much which will be that Padding my homes you have a raider rookie pink optic Which is a nine five And everybody has a shot at it guys if you got a spot or you want a spot on the break So here was the original list that bought in The way it was in so there you go. There's everybody there And again, as it says here, we're gonna randomize customer names top name gets them a homes Let's roll the dice and we got ourselves a two and a one for three times Three times customer name and number one gets it guys One two three Boom three times Roy di Pietro. I don't know if I called your name Roy You have to come to see these chiefs But there you go three times Boom congratulations, man. You just won the patrick mahogany raider rookie pink nine five And this was jazby's 11 box helmery football mixer on jazby's case breaks dot com


Hello everyone and welcome to the program Agriculture on the Move. I am Philip Sidney, your host. Here with me is our permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development, Mr Barrymore Felicier. Welcome to the program sir. Thank you very much Mr Sidney, good day viewers. Great. Mr Felicier, we have so much to discuss when it comes to the Ministry of Agriculture, which is a very dynamic ministry, so much happening and I don't think half an hour is sufficient for us to discuss our achievement, but give us a brief overview to date of the achievements of the performance of your ministry. Okay, the Department of Agriculture is made up of several departments, fisheries, forestry, extension advisory services, engineering services, plant and research, vet and livestock. We also have a host of other areas to cover within those departments themselves. So this year the emphasis is on food security, the new vision. But with those portfolios assigned or those departments assigned, we have a budget of just over 58 million, 22.3 of that is recurrent expenditure, capital expenditure is about 45 million and we have revenue targets of just about $650,000 which has been lowered because of COVID. Revenue is not performing well, but to date we've collected in terms of revenue just about 50%, 49% of our revenue. In terms of recurrent expenditure, we've dealt with that in terms of 62% there about and capital projects implementation rate of about 40% and 40% because we've had delays in implementation caused by the new public procurement act and of course there was a general election where you had to seek new policy direction on what is happening. So in a nutshell there is an overview of the ministry in terms of departments, revenue, expenditure and capital expenditure. In terms of capital projects, we have projects in the area of ATP that is agricultural transformation program where you have special projects unit. We have projects in terms of the relocation to Volett capital project. We have the ongoing work at the national agricultural diagnostic facility. We have ongoing work in terms of the CC for fish program where we have coral reef enhancement and the like coast fish. We have fisheries management plan, aquaculture management plans and the like. We have VJF which were issued there in the fisheries. We have upcoming projects next year, but we will not touch on that now. In terms of forestry, we have projects under the DVRP, rehabilitation of the nursery. We have the ACT program that is the wildlife conservation and education center being rehabilitated and developed. That is almost complete with the average just to populate it in the animals. We have the rehabilitation of trails at forestry. We have the IWECO project which is a stabilization project. We have the GCD John Compton Dam which we just completed. Yes. Yes, that's forestry. We help with IANOLA project, the Jeff's service coast project under forestry. So there are a lot of things happening in terms of vet and livestock, animal pounds, again, the public health aspect to it, the treatment of the Bontick program, the surveillance and monitoring. We have pretty lastly the usual services going on, employment of officers, monitoring surveillance. There's a lot happening. Wow. But in terms of deadlines and achievements of those programs, where some of those programs are they close to completion or are they somewhere in the middle area? So a lot of these programs are ongoing projects. So for example, if we were to take the National Agriculture Diagnostic Facility, which is a two-story building, the first floor is comprised of the animal laboratory and the plant laboratory. There's room for the solution of bureau standards and we have a food safety component in there. And then upstairs the second story we have floors up there. So in terms of that physical infrastructure, it is almost completed. We're only missing an elevator and a chemical storage room. A chemical storage room because the chemicals for safety is hazardous to store these chemicals within the same facility that houses persons. So in terms of completion, very near completion. We should see completion before the end of this financial year. In terms of wallet, we have completed the watchman, the warehouse, stockman's shed, the watchman's shed, some on the upper link road, lower link road, the rabbitry, small ruminants, the swine pens. We've completed all that infrastructure, the gates and fencing, the electricals, the water. So to date, what we have to complete this financial year is water reticulation, the sewer system and start the administrative building this year. In the future in the years coming, quarantine pens will be required because you cannot house the animals coming in together with the general population. And we have some other work to be done in terms of the infrastructure, pasture and the like. So these will be done in coming years. So we have two or three years left to complete wallet, but by the end of this year, we should be able to move. We have some animals at Sa'afa. Once the administrative building is completed, we should be able to move those animals across. Great. How's your livestock? Let's talk about the MPF. MPF. So the mid-processing facility, since we moved across to Sa'afa, the plan was to relocate and move the processing facility to Lapelle in Dennerie. The options are now on the table to stay and re-equip the facility at the MPF. So we are now at Boseju, sorry. We are now seeking options and costings. What do we cost by way of estimates? To now re-equip that facility to a fully functioning facility. So that is the, and the other option is, of course, a fully fledged facility at Lapelle, which is around $16 million. So to weigh the options to go, we will be providing the executive with the costings and options to make a final decision as to whether or not we remain or we go. Wow. Yes. Okay. So MPF to stay at Boseju, which I think is a good thing because in terms of cost. The equipment, do you think the equipment up to date is still good working condition? That is part of the costing that we need to get the persons who set up in the UK to come down, have a look at the existing equipment, tell us what is in good functioning condition, what it would cost to repair and bring this facility back to the state of prominence it was once in. Okay. Great. Strainable. This is just probably briefly because I don't think we should shy away from it because we started some work on this and we did ads. We had meetings with the livestock owners, but apparently it's coming back, you know, it's really causing a problem now. Where are we at? Yes. So we have done some work in terms of strengthening our position in terms of providing an animal pound. So it was actually published that the locations of the animal pounds in Bekso, we have assigned pound keepers and we have done the like. We have worked with some of the farmers in terms of identifying and targeting animals to ensure that the animal, the owners and animals are in a registry. We know who they are and who the animals belong to and we've done some sensitization and education with the farmers as well. But there is a persistent problem, especially in the shock area with one particular farmer where the animals are always on the highway. We have sent documentation to the individual and pursued some exercises warning the individual of the dangers of allowing those animals to show. So in the near future, I can see, Mr. Sidney, that some action will have to be taken to safeguard the public safety. Safety is paramount and we have to ensure that the public, especially the motoring public, they are not in any serious harm. The animals as well, it's unfair to them. When you hit an animal, sometimes the animal suffers. So again, in terms of cruelty to animals, yes, so that's a different problem. And in viewport as well, we've noted the issue with Mr. Shalry, where these three animals have been visiting his garden and destroying his produce, which seems to be a recurring event. So yes, we've noted and taken account of those things. OK, there are a number of other projects. I don't know if you'll care to mention the Koko. Koko, yes. So we've recently learned from the trade mission to the UK that the contracts with bananas for 2022 is at risk. Koko appears to be or is one of the products that can ease that transition to another valuable product. As it stands in Saint Lucia, there's a shortage of Koko beans. Yes. The demand for Koko on the market keeps going up and the price keeps going up. We cannot supply enough Koko for internal needs and for the export market. So Koko is a viable product, especially when you add value to it. So if you're looking at wet and dry beans, you may just be breaking even. But once you look at value added like the powder, the Koko sticks and the chocolate, then you see some real super profits coming in. There is this structure at Angers. That is the Koko fomentary. Oh, yes. What's the situation of that? We have had that facility disused for a number of years. Pusans expressed interest, but they have not taken up the use of the facility. We recently, within the last two months, published an expression of interest for Pusans interested and we got a number of Pusans who have expressed an interest, a genuine interest in running that Koko fomentary. So the next step for us is to evaluate those expressions and sit with the ranking, the priority bidder and have discussions, negotiations and enter into some agreement for the use of that facility. But under the same program, is there some dialogue with Hotel Shukula? And because they are doing quite a lot of Koko, I know there is some arrangement with farmers where they give farmers plants and the farmers would sell to them and, of course, they export to the UK. How is the ministry in terms of partnership? Yes, so the ministry is in terms of partnership. We work with all major stakeholders, but they work right now in terms of Hotel Shukula is discussions with Koko Shukula. So you'd find that Hotel Shukula, the rest. Discussions are going on in the industry to further the industry. What we have done in terms of real steps is with other persons like FAO in terms of value chain, what we've done, compete Caribbean in terms of training the Koko Research Center in terms of the flavors of Koko, analysis of Koko, what's affecting Koko. And through this year's budget, we want to, or the next year's budget, I should say, we want to embark on the Koko Sector Enhancement Project. We've made a submission for some money so that we can rehabilitate some of those Koko fields, expand certain acreages, and help the farmers in terms of the pest and disease control, the rodents and the blackboard. So that is on the way. To complement that as well, we have put in a request for mechanization, some tillers to help and some tractors to help in terms of land preparation. So we are looking at Koko and other products in a big way. Great. Epiculture, I realize this industry is growing rapidly, especially with COVID has done, yes, some negatives, but it has done some positives. People became more innovative and, you know, so now there are quite a few persons who have gone into the production of honey. What is the ministry doing in that regard? We have, within the veteran livestock division, we have a small unit of one person plus some persons that have been trained to help persons in becoming better in terms of beekeeping and the agricultural practices associated with that. We've also given some support to cooperative in terms of helping them with their management, because we have at Lakai a facility to process honey that has not been used as well. Hold that point, because I want to continue, but we do for our break. You are watching agriculture and the move. Stay tuned. Don't go away. Honey is coming up. When you're out at sea, there are no service stations along the way or supermarkets for a quick stop if you need something. It is essential that everything you would need while at sea is on the boat before you leave. That's why pre-sea checks are so important. Checks should be carried out by more than one person to ensure that all essentials are on board. Pre-sea checks should include food stores, extra water and fuel, navigational equipment, safety gear and communication equipment. Before heading out to sea, always ensure that all equipment is in working order. You are stocked up on food and also extra fuel. Call the Lighthouse to inform them of your voyage plan and inform someone responsible of your departure time and estimate the time of arrival back on shore. For more information on obtaining a license to fish, contact the Department of Fisheries at 468-4143. Welcome back to the program, Agriculture and the Move. With me, our permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Barry Morphelis here, and of course we're discussing lots of programs and projects and achievements in that ministry. Mr Peers, we're talking about the epiculture and of course honey production, which is growing. Lots of persons wanting to get into it now. We spoke about a facility in Lakai. Yes, we do have a facility in Lakai that is just waiting to be used to process honey so that it can facilitate trade, especially to the export market. You know we have our SPS requirements to trade, but as it starts now, honey is in high demand locally. So on the domestic market, you have a high demand for honey. So we need to fulfill that demand as well as there's export potential for honey. We have recently partnered and Jeff has been doing a lot of work in terms of epiculture. And on the 9th and 10th of December, we have the first ever honey show, where we feature in honey products and honey related products. There will be a judging categories, judging, prizes, announcement. So on the 9th and 10th of December at Constitution Park, everyone should come down and see what St. Lucia has to offer. A lot of us in St. Lucia, in terms of the agro-processing products, we are not aware that St. Lucia is so skilled and we are so blessed in terms of the variety and quality of products that we can produce. So it's an opportunity, it's an exhibition, opportunity for us to come see and support. Definitely. I know the minister has articulated quite a lot recently on the banana sector. I still think within that forum between today, we should not leave it out. We should at least say something about it. Such an important industry. It's sad to see the way we are now with it.  And I think I'm saying it's our last chance for marketing. Bananas, regional bananas. We still have a market for regional bananas. We do export to bananas to Barbados. To Trinidad and especially. Well, not specifically Trinidad because of the currency issue, but we want to restart that. The two antigas and kids and the like, we are exporting, but we'd like to increase the export to other countries. In terms of the UK market, again, we have experience over the last two years, the issues with black sugar as a rise in that, preventing us from exporting the prolonged drought. The issues with maximum residual limits, which is a trade barrier to the UK, where the bananas had to be dumped because we did not comply with those trading positions and restrictions on the chemical use of the fungicide used to treat crown rot. So all of that and then we had Elsa. Again, we followed that damage. So consistently over the last two years, we've not been able to provide the quantity and quality of bananas required on the UK market. And in the UK, it was made clear that they require a commitment by Sanbushan growers in terms of providing the quality of bananas and not overgrade, not overgrade bananas, but quality bananas that is consistent that they receiving from places like the Dominican Republic, Ghana and the Latin American countries. So that is what we need to do to export on a consistent level because Sanbushan bananas receives, we receive a high premium, the fair trade price for bananas. Exactly. So once we can export another fair trade banana brand, the banana is the price is very good for the farmer. But yes, I don't, something I don't understand. We're dealing with mature people, mature farmers. How much more can we tell them that quality is important for the survival of the industry? What more can we do? I know that there has been through the Banana Productivity Improvement Project. There's been extensive hand-holding. There's been training with the provided inputs in terms of oil, fertilizer, irrigation, pack houses, toilets. We've done all that under that program. Helping farmers become global gap certified. All of that has happened. So the owners really now lies on the farmer to ensure that the quality of the product they produce because they are in fact hurting themselves and the entire industry. Having said so, we are also seeking with the restructuring or looking at the industry to strengthen the inspection system. So the banana inspectorate in some way has to be strengthened if we are to ensure that bananas continue to be supplied to the UK. The other thing is, I don't know why farmers keep doing this for years. I remember when I joined the ministry as an extension officer, there was a demand for ginger, all right. And when it came to a first election, it was not that stringent. You just back the ginger and you send it across, right. The demand was there, the price was good, right. Instead of the farmers increasing the acreage for production, they went and harvest what we call the Jejum Dule, you know. And they put three-quarter of this in the bag and a quarter of the ginger. They lost that market, right. The dashing is another one. You know, they used to put malenga in the thing, you know. I mean, at this stage, are we supposed to be, you know, telling the farmers not to do this, man?   So now we have bananas and we need to put our best food forward. But the other area we're seeing some declines in terms of quality and we have to be careful is seamos. Yes. So the export market, we have to ensure that we don't give under-grade seamos or low-quality seamos. So we have to ensure that the markets, that we have the high-value markets, we protect them and that at the end of the supply chain, we give the customer good quality. Yeah, but apparently the quality of seamos, which is, again, another commodity that is like a gold rush because of COVID, people have found time to go. But then if it's done, the marketing is done properly, the selection is done properly, it can work. But apparently you have a lot of backdoor. How can it, how it leaves the San Lucia? You know, you have to get your Faito to get it out there. But apparently, you know, it gets over there without that. And that's where the quality issue comes in. But what the Faito does, the Faito says to you that this product is free of pestle and disease. It does not necessarily like the banana. Yes. The banana, you see, it's free from the pink millibug. But it does not, it does not deal with the over-grade issue that you would have. So the Faito does not necessarily deal with that. You need to actually look at the quality of seamos or quality of banana being exported. And then again, you need to perhaps have a filtering agency to deal with that. Yes, that's the other thing. Another commodity that I think we have, we have done a lot of work with FAU, has given off a lot of assistance in that regard. That's the cassava. Cassava. Where we are now? In terms of cassava, we've performed that value chain analysis with FAU. But there is an ongoing consultancy with the OECS to look at, to look at that as well, to look at added value to cassava and taking it to another level. Building on what the FAU consultancy has done and adding more value to cassava, seeing what else can be done with cassava. But we've done so much with cassava in terms of the studies at Cardi, the varieties. We've done in-house the waxing of cassava to ensure that the shelf life goes beyond the normal three or four days to expand it to that 12, 13 days. Including vacuum packing. Including vacuum packing. We've done that. We've had workshops on the processing of cassava, the cultivation of cassava. So we've done a lot of work. And remember, you highlighted the promotion of the cassava mash. Yes. Even that was done. That was done. So a lot of work has gone into cassava. And now we have to allow the persons in the industry to build on that work. And again, the issue with things like cassava mash is the inconsistency with supply. Yes. So when the suppliers in the bakeries are looking for cassava mash and you start to supply them, then the supply runs out. Yes, because imagine you had FEO came down. I think they gave a piece of equipment for the use in the cassava production. They brought down a master beaker to work with the beakers down here. So much so you had bros beaker in VA for supply and bread, cassava bread. You also have mani's bakery, you know, and it was going well. But right now you cannot find that. People were buying that it was in demand. So what can we do now to ensure the production of cassava? We have to start with the production system again, ensure that there's enough cassava on the cultivation for a consistent supply. So we now have to go back to our extension and go back to our marketing unit to ensure that all along the chain, we have what is required, the quantities required on a consistent level. So the planting material, we have to study the planting material from propagation, good planting material, the soils available for it, the processing of it in terms of the food safety and food health, market access and the like. And of course, affordable inputs, which is you have to look at at cultivation of production along the entire value chain for any crop and cassava is no different. Yeah, but the point is, I mean, where do we go? I mean, is it part and parcel of the annual work program for extension? That's enough for that. Yes, that is that is that is the only crop currently that is not under the poor view of the extension department is bananas. OK. Only bananas, which there's a separate unit for banana extension. I understand. Yeah. So all other crops, your extension officer, and we have seven, seven extension region offices supposed to assist with all the technical aspects of cultivation and the treatment of any crop, including cassava. But if you need, if you need good planting material, then your extension officer again, supposed to refer you to the propagation department or to another person who has good planting material, a propagation does not happen. Oh, but then there's a conversation need to be had with extension and the whole relationship between, you know, the propagation unit, because something's not happening there. I mean, we have to be we have to be we cannot sugar coat it. So we have to really look at it and see. But again, let me see to the to the listening public and the farmers that we do have on our website, we do have tech packs which assist you in the production of various items. So they are about 50, 50 tech packs on the website to assist you with production and the treatment of pests and disease. Final words from you, sir. Well, agriculture is doing a lot. It's already that we are we are doing a lot. We have a lot. We just ended our media review in terms of seeing where we are at. After six months, the government has allocated resources to us, financial, human, given us infrastructure. And we need to account for that. But we are being pulled in all sorts of directions. You have external agencies. They want to gender this. You want that we need to keep focus as a ministry and we are keeping focus. So our focus is on the enhancement of food, food production systems, food safety. We're looking at the whole idea of traceability. And we want to ensure that we optimize the use of the resources that are allocated to us because the only way we are going to recover economically and otherwise is to ensure that we work well, we perform well and we use the resources we have wisely. Definitely. Thank you very much, Mr. P.S. And, of course, our for our food security to be safe. Yes, thank you again. You've been watching agriculture in the move. Thank you for viewing the program and also remember, agriculture is our business and eat fresh. St. Lucia's best. 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When I first heard about the Game Boy Advance, I was over the moon. Wow, a portable Super Nintendo, but even more powerful, so it'll be like getting brand new Super Nintendo games in addition to spruced up ports of older games, and for the latter that indeed was the case for games like Final Fight 1, Metroid Zero Mission, A Link to the Past, Mario games, and more. This however was not the case for Contra Advance, sadly. This is not a good port for several reasons. Number one, yeah this game certainly looks the part. The graphics look very similar to the SNES version, but with one glaring difference. There's not enough screen real estate here to work with. There's so much chaos here, the typical amount for a Contra game that you would expect, but simply not enough room to see it all and get it out of the way. So yeah, as you might expect, that's a major problem. Number two, the controls just don't feel right. They're way too tight for a game like this, and that problem is compounded by the smaller screen space. Number three, you can only hold one weapon, and there's no bombs at all. This is kind of a curious decision because the L and R buttons on the Game Boy Advance do nothing. Uh, seems like they could have been put to good use there. Number four, there is some bad slowdown here as you get to the later levels. I'm talking about like early Super Nintendo Super R-type kind of slowdown.  I know that's a big criticism of pretty much every Game Boy Advance game. The sound is almost always a problem. But here the classic Contra 3 soundtrack just sounds neutered. On the plus side, the port gets rid of the overhead levels from the SNES game and replaces them with levels 2 and 5 from Contra Hardcore for Sega Genesis. So that's pretty cool. That was my first exposure to that game back in the day, so I appreciate mixing it up a bit here. But other than that, I really struggle to come up with any other positives for this port. It's slow, the music sucks, you have less firepower, the action doesn't quite fit on the screen, and in addition there's no Konami code. Only these long-ass passwords. Eugh. So yeah, unfortunately there's no way I can recommend Contra Advance. I like the idea of the hardcore levels replacing the overhead levels from Alien Wars, but other than that, this game is just not worth it, especially for what it's going for on eBay. You're way, way better off playing Contra 3 for SNES.