The Caribbean Food Crop Society is the regional

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serving

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and agriculture for countries bordering on the Caribbean Sea. Agriculture is the largest sector of the

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and it affects every nation and territory within the region. The Caribbean Food Crop Society is the organization through which people in the field have the opportunity to meet to discuss research and shared concerns and objectives. The society was founded in 1963 by Richard Marshall Bond, the Director, an
Arnold Krochmal
Assistant Director of the

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's Experimental Station on

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. The association had its first annual meeting at the

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in 1964.

Venues by year

References

External links

Caribbean Food Crop Society- Home

Caribbean Food Crops Society - 2007

C.F.C.S. 2011 Barbados - Home

Abstract 1977 CFCS Conference

SIDALC - Sistema de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas
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