The ‘Love Box’ which provides a demand for locally grown foods, ensuring that local producers, especially from the rural communities have a ready market for their produce. Additionally, the initiative provides a much needed food safety-net for the most vulnerable within our communities in this period of a pandemic.
The Ministry of Agriculture has considered the success of the Love Box initiative and in thinking of ways to improve upon it, has decided to introduce a diabetic friendly variant. These will become available from Monday 28th September, 2020.
The Ministry of Agriculture said it will be utilizing the knowledge and expertise of the Nutritionists in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Diaspora on the best foods to prevent the development of diabetes and in its reversal.
Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Saboto Caesar, stressed that eating local foods which are often more highly nutritious than imported processed foods is critical in fighting diabetes.
