The agricultural sector has always been susceptible to the introduction of new or variations to existing diseases to plant and animals due to the uncontrolled and ineffective management of the entry of plant and animals to the country, both intentionally and unintentionally. The Plant & Animal Quarantine Information System (PAQIS) will provide the information system support to manage this challenge in a real time and proactive manner. The Farmers Registration System will allow the farming community to be registered and managed, particularly with respect to grants, subsidiaries and nonmonetary benefits that are or may become available. It will allow the human resources that are devoted to this sector to be better managed. And finally, there is a need to manage the quality and quantity of the livestock within SVG. This will be done by the introduction of a Livestock Registration System. This will allow improved quality of livestock products to be facilitated, by better management of the animals themselves. It will facilitate disease management amongst other important management functions. The NAIMS Programme entails the following series of related initiatives: Reporting & Monitoring Information System (RMIS) Caribbean Fisheries Information System (CARIFIS) Forestry Information System Plant & Animal Quarantine Information System Farmers Registration System Livestock Registration System primary products of the agri- and fish products including improvement in distribution. It is recognised that good decisions can only be made consistently with good information. NAPMIS will therefore include the following information systems: National Agriculture Production and Marketing Information System (NAMIS) will support the marketing requirements of AIMS and will allow the Ministry to support farmers by providing information that will enable them to maximise the revenue that they generated from their produce. It will allow the Ministry to determine the best balance of products that should be produced by SVG and generally become the base decision The NAPMIS - National Agricultural support system for the sector. It will Production and Marketing Information include a land bank system to track how System is a Programme that will include a land is being allocated to produce and to number of systems that are intended to improve make land available for landless farmers and support the supply chain management within interested in expansion or youths interested the agricultural sector. It will support in agricultural start-ups. production, marketing, agro-processing and more The Agriculture Portal will be the effective sector planning. NAPMIS will enhance primary electronic entry point into the agro-processing and value-addition to the sector. It will provide links to all St. Vincent & the Grenadines National ICT Strategy and Action Plan P a g e | 66 stakeholders with SVG and will enable stakeholders within and external to SVG to connect and to find the information required for operating and investing within the sector. Farmers and agencies generally operate independently in SVG, and this Portal is an important tool to facilitate the required linkages and the building of valuable business relationships. Furthermore, the Portal will provide linkages to banks, be accessible from community access centres, and assist farmers with the identification of niche markets and connections to foreign partners. NAMIS and the Agricultural Portal will be integrated to improve the linkages between primary producers or farmers and consumers especially supermarkets, restaurants and hotels. The ‘ICT in Agriculture’ Programme will promote the use of ICT to improve production technologies in agriculture such as the use of automation systems. Such systems improve the use of limited and costly resources such as water and fertiliser, and the use of technology for planting and harvesting. This Programme will focus on the identification and introduction of strategic ICT into the sector itself. The impact of strategic ICT should be greater yield, and better products on a more consistent basis at a lower cost. Action Item: Launch NAPMIS Train Farmers and Extension Staff in the use of Information System and ICT in Agriculture