The ongoing review of the mining legislation, expected to be completed by end of June this year, is encouraging. Ladies and gentlemen, agriculture holds a great promise for this country. At the recent Agriculture Symposium sponsored by the Government, a number of very good initiatives  4  BIS Review 86/2010  were agreed to by the various stakeholders who attended the Symposium.
We hope these initiatives will be taken on board and timely progress is made. We are very encouraged by the energy and vigour we have seen recently in the Ministry of Agriculture. In June this year, the first batch of potato seedlings was planted at Navai in Nadarivatu.