Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)

This Agreement provides for the establishment of CARDI, the objectives of which are to provide for the research and development needs of the agriculture of the Region as identified in national plans and policies; to provide an appropriate research and development service to the agricultural sector of Member States; to provide and extend the application of new technologies in production, processing, storage and distribution of agricultural products of Member States; to pursue for specified periods long term research in pertinent areas; to provide for the co-ordination and integration of the research and development efforts of Member States where this is possible and desirable; to undertake teaching functions normally at the postgraduate level, limited to the development of the relevant Member states; and to seek to achieve the optimum decentralization of facilities