Analysis performs an important position in making certain the nation’s meals safety, says President of the School of Agriculture, Science and Schooling (CASE) in Portland, Dr. Derrick Deslandes.
Talking lately throughout the establishment’s Analysis Day, Dr. Deslandes stated analysis is the inspiration for innovation and entrepreneurship, citing the necessity for better assist to advance the sector.
He additional emphasised that analysis permits CASE to push boundaries and drive new applied sciences, positively impacting farmers’ productiveness.
“We’ve got to search out methods of supporting the kind of infrastructure that enables us to play the position that we are able to play if we’re critical about meals safety. If we don’t deal with some core points, by way of enhancing our productiveness throughout the area, then our meals safety drawback will solely worsen,” Dr. Deslandes said.
CASE’s Analysis Day, themed ‘Enhancing Schooling, Science, and Agriculture: Constructing Capability for Grasp Researchers’, noticed the establishment showcasing cutting-edge analysis, fostering collaboration, and selling innovation in training, science, and agriculture.
“We’re demonstrating to Jamaica and the world that CASE has an vital position to play within the improvement of agriculture [and] the mixing of science and know-how into the agriculture area, the mixing of enterprise and hospitality with agriculture [and] the mixing of arithmetic and laptop sciences with agriculture,” Dr. Deslandes stated.
He added that, “CASE is a best-kept secret and, maybe, a secret for too lengthy; we’ve pivoted, as an establishment, to analysis.”
“We all know it’s going to take some time for it to develop into absolutely entrenched however right now demonstrates to college students, employees and our stakeholders that we imply enterprise,” the President said.
Scores of scholars from a number of parishes converged on the School’s campus to find out about all issues referring to analysis in addition to go to the array of cubicles.
The primary ceremony befell within the T.P. Lecky Corridor, which featured an deal with by College of the West Indies Professional Vice-Chancellor and Mona Campus Principal, Professor Densil Williams.
Dr. Deslandes expressed optimism that the occasion will evolve right into a two-day affair.
Grade-eight pupil at Annotto Bay Excessive College in St. Mary, Patricia Anderson, shared her overview of the occasion.
“I actually liked it as a result of I realized lots of issues. It [was] simply wonderful… and I want to come again to CASE. Once I heard about CASE, I used to be saying to myself that I didn’t know there was a school in Portland… so I needed to come on this journey,” the aspiring physician stated.
