What vegetables are grown in Trinidad and Tobago?

What vegetables are grown in Trinidad and Tobago?

Other crops grown include rice, sweet potato, cassava, breadfruit, tomatoes, hot peppers, cucumber, pumpkin, pigeon pea, banana, mango, pineapple and pawpaw.

What are the 5 main crops grown in the Caribbean?

crops in the Caribbean mainly comprise on sugar cane, bananas, coffee, tobacco, root crops (cassava, sweet potato and yams), some citrus fruits and cacao (Figure 3).

What are the traditional agricultural exports of Trinidad?

The country’s main exports are processed agricultural products such as cigarettes, water, cereal, beer, rum, chocolate and biscuits, with beverages and tobacco making up 49% of total exports in 2014. Top destinations for T’s exports include the US, New Zealand, Canada and other countries within the Caribbean region.

What are short crops?

Short-term crops are the crops that are grown and managed only for a short period of time. They are grown especially to maintain the water quality, soil fertility, soil erosion, suppression of weeds and pests.

What crop grows the most in the Caribbean?

sugar cane
The only regions where a cereal is not the dominant crop are the Caribbean and central Africa. In the Caribbean, the dominant major crop is sugar cane; while in central Africa, the dominant major crop is cassava. However, in both regions, a cereal (maize) is the second most prevalent crop (Tables 6 and 7).

What is the largest export crop in the Caribbean?

sugar
The main export crops are sugar, coffee, cocoa, cot- ton, bananas, rice and to a lesser extent citrus fruits, coconuts (copra) and tobac- co. With the exception of sugar cane, which is usually exported in the form of raw sugar, most of the crops are exported as unprocessed primary products.

Is rice grown in Trinidad?

In the global context, rice production in Trinidad and Tobago is miniscule. However, for over 200 years, the hill rice grown by the MHRMCSL has been an important local source of food security, nutrition and sustainable livelihoods.

What is the most important crop in Trinidad and Tobago?

Cocoa, derived from the cacao plant, was the other major crop in Trinidad and Tobago. From the late 1880s until the 1930s, cocoa was the most important crop on both islands, and in the late 1980s it remained the leading crop on Tobago.

How did the oil boom affect agricultural output in Trinidad and Tobago?

Caribbean Islands Table of Contents Agricultural output in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1970s and 1980s was inversely related to the performance of the oil sector: depressed during the oil boom, stimulated during oil’s decline.

How many tractors are there in Trinidad and Tobago?

According to the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization, Trinidad and Tobago had only 2,500 tractors in use in 1983, or only 8 tractors per 1,000 hectares. This made Trinidad and Tobago less machinery intensive than Jamaica.

Is Trinidad and Tobago more machinery intensive than Jamaica?

This made Trinidad and Tobago less machinery intensive than Jamaica. In spite of being one of the leading producers and exporters of fertilizers in the world, Trinidad and Tobago’s fertilizer use in the 1980s was still below 1970 levels.