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The Chinese Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda, in collaboration with Yuan Longping High Tech Agricultural Co. Ltd., today hosted an outreach session at the Greencastle Agricultural Station to promote improved harvesting techniques and post-harvest management for locally grown Bok Choy (Chinese cabbage).
Several farmers joined the exercise, alongside Greencastle Station staff, to observe and participate in the hands-on demonstrations. Mr. Victor Harris/Greencastle Station Supervisor represented the local management team and ensured the session ran smoothly.
Over twenty (20) persons were trained and each participant left not only with four fresh heads of Bok Choy, but also with valuable technical knowledge to support their ongoing farming efforts.
The Chinese Embassy and Longping High Tech Agricultural Co. Ltd. will participate in Antigua’s Carnival celebrations, showcasing some of the ongoing projects and produce that are under the Bilateral Cooperation Project.
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All this effort to train our farmers. And up to now it doesn’t seem that our farmers have adopted anything the Chinese have taught them. It is like the refuse the knowledge given to them. If I were the Chinese I would stop trying. You can bring a donkey to the well, but you cannot force it to drink.
@Less We Forget – China climate is different from ours, and they have water, funding and technology…things not widely available to us so what they have to share might not be that useful to us. How about some help building water catchments and distribution networks?
@Not exactly July 21, 2025 At 10:18 am
I understand all that you say, but technology doesn’t change. That is why technology is used all over the world.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1293930828820199
here is a new technique that is being used. Nothing to do with soil farming anymore and do not complain about no water. The Dutch have invented the drip system and sold it to Israel and they have used it to farm in the dessert. So please do not excuses of no water. I have personally visited agriculture universities in Europe and those children are farming crops in green houses that normally only grow in the tropics. But they build such green houses that are so high that can accommodate even high coconut and mango trees in their green house with temperture control. So even in the winter months their green houses are like the tropics.
Ouir farmers are stubborn. And you cannot teach these old dogs new tricks.
Look what Sherrie-Ann Braizer is doing with hydroponics.
https://antiguanewsroom.com/moa-interns-visit-shaade-hydroponics/
Note the Chinese came here and demonstrated what can grow here and how to do it. But no one is taking them on. And our import bill is getting larger. To the benefit of the USA were most of our produce come from.
https://agriculture.gov.ag/index.php/2024/01/25/local-farmers-undergo-training-in-broccoli-and-cauliflower-production/
And these are two produce that Antigua imports a lot of.