Recommendations have been made at the Food Symposium held earlier this week, for the establishment of a special school for tropical agriculture and the need to revive the Navuso Agriculture School.

The group chaired by Michael Brown has recommended that the Ministry of Education should encourage agriculture education at both academic and vocational level such as Navuso and Tutu.

The discussion group tasked with looking into how to improve the production of fruits and vegetables in the local market, and came up with recommendations and the need to improve supply chain mechanics and facilitate consultations between stakeholders.

The group also suggested that farm business advisers should be trained by the ministry, and called for regular visits by the extension officers, and improved infrastructure for small farms.

Brown said the group suggested that in order to address issues, there needs to be some provision for more funding which were to be made available to farmers.

Brown said farmers are to be trained to market their products, setting up of model farms for post farmers.