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IICA visits School in Belmopan with Gardening Program

Tiempo de lectura: 3 mins.

School feeding programs in Belize are using a more holistic and integrated approach of establishing gardens to produce fruits and vegetables to supply to the kitchen for consumption by the schoolchildren.  It is in this context that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture along with the Horticulture unit of the Ministry of Agriculture are working together on establishing a school garden at one of the primary schools in the city of Belmopan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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everalda.westby@iica.int

 

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